Release 1.9.1 of the Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java (awslabs#337

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* Release 1.9.1 of the Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java

Updated versions, and added release notes.

* Added note about the update of the AWS Java SDK

Release 1.9.0 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (awslabs#294)

* Added support for ListShards API. This API is used in place of DescribeStream API to provide more throughput during ShardSyncTask. 
  * ListShards supoorts higher call rate, which should reduce instances of throttling when attempting to synchronize the shard list.

* Updated the version of AWS Java SDK to 1.11.272.
  * Version 1.11.272 is now the minimum support versiojn of the SDK.
* Deprecated the following methods, and classes. These methods, and classes will be removed in a future release.
  * Deprecated IKinesisProxy#getStreamInfo.
  * Deprecated IKinesisProxyFactory.
  * Deprecated KinesisProxyFactory.
  * Deprecated certain KinesisProxy constructors.

Release 1.8.10 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (awslabs#288)

* Allow providing a custom IKinesisProxy implementation.
  * PR awslabs#274
* Checkpointing on a different thread should no longer emit a warning about NullMetricsScope.
  * PR awslabs#284
  * Issue awslabs#48
* Upgraded the AWS Java SDK to version 1.11.271
  * PR awslabs#287

Release 1.8.9 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (awslabs#282)

* Allow disabling check for the case where a child shard has an open parent shard.
  There is a race condition where it's possible for the a parent shard
  to appear open, while having child shards. This check can now be
  disabled by setting ignoreUnexpectedChildShards in the
  KinesisClientLibConfiguration to true.
  * PR awslabs#240
  * Issue awslabs#210
* Upgraded the AWS SDK for Java to 1.11.261
  * PR awslabs#281

Merge pull request awslabs#269 from pfifer/release-1.8.8

Release 1.8.8 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java

Release Notes for 1.8.7 of the Amazon Kinesis Client Library for Java (…

…awslabs#257)

Don't add a delay for synchronous requests to Kinesis
Removes a delay that had been added for synchronous GetRecords calls to Kinesis

Release Note for Release 1.8.6 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (a…

…wslabs#254)

Release 1.8.5 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (awslabs#232)

* Release 1.8.5 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java

Release 1.8.5 (September 26, 2017)
* Only advance the shard iterator for the accepted response.  
  This fixes a race condition in the `KinesisDataFetcher` when it's being used to make asynchronous requests.  The shard iterator is now only advanced when the retriever calls `DataFetcherResult#accept()`.
  * PR awslabs#230
  * Issue awslabs#231

Merge pull request awslabs#228 from pfifer/release-1.8.4

Release 1.8.4 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java

Release 1.8.3 of the Amazon Kinesis Client for Java (awslabs#224)

* Call shutdown on the retriever when the record processor is being shutdown
  This fixes a bug that could leak threads if using the
  AsynchronousGetRecordsRetrievalStrategy is being used.
  The asynchronous retriever is only used when
  KinesisClientLibConfiguration#retryGetRecordsInSeconds, and
  KinesisClientLibConfiguration#maxGetRecordsThreadPool are set.
  * PR awslabs#222