diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d6ddb26..23cc912 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+* fuse-overlayfs-1.10
+
+- main: use /proc/self/fd to read xattrs.
+- main: inherit ACLs for new files/dirs.
+- main: fix passing noatime.
+- main: add checks for valid /proc mount.
+- main: fix copy_file_range for deleted files.
+- main: fix creating links of just deleted files.
+
 * fuse-overlayfs-1.9
 
 - main: fix setting attributes on file without permissions.
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 9b3ea19..7294042 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.10-dev], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
+AC_INIT([fuse-overlayfs], [1.11-dev], [giuseppe@scrivano.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([main.c])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
 
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
index af05f57..2f23be6 100644
--- a/main.c
+++ b/main.c
@@ -944,7 +944,8 @@ rpl_stat (fuse_req_t req, struct ovl_node *node, int fd, const char *path, struc
 
   st->st_ino = node->tmp_ino;
   st->st_dev = node->tmp_dev;
-  if (ret == 0 && node_dirp (node))
+
+  if (node_dirp (node))
     {
       if (!data->static_nlink)
         {
@@ -961,6 +962,14 @@ rpl_stat (fuse_req_t req, struct ovl_node *node, int fd, const char *path, struc
       else
         st->st_nlink = 1;
     }
+  else
+    {
+      struct ovl_node *n;
+
+      st->st_nlink = 0;
+      for (n = node->ino->node; n; n = n->next_link)
+        st->st_nlink++;
+    }
 
   return ret;
 }
@@ -2039,7 +2048,13 @@ do_lookup_file (struct ovl_data *lo, fuse_ino_t parent, const char *name)
     pnode = inode_to_node (lo, parent);
 
   if (name == NULL)
-    return pnode;
+    {
+      /* Prefer a version that is loaded.  */
+      for (node = pnode; node; node = node->next_link)
+        if (node->parent)
+          return node;
+      return pnode;
+    }
 
   if (has_prefix (name, ".wh."))
     {
@@ -3397,6 +3412,7 @@ do_rm (fuse_req_t req, fuse_ino_t parent, const char *name, bool dirp)
   node_set_name (&key, (char *) name);
 
   rm = hash_delete (pnode->children, &key);
+  fuse_lowlevel_notify_inval_inode (lo->se, node_to_inode (node), -1, 0);
   if (rm)
     {
       ret = hide_node (lo, rm, true);