Remove zlib dependency and usage
Up the version
Merge pull request #877 from hoffmabc/hotfix-compression

[Hotfix] Remove zlib compression calls
Merge branch 'master' into backmerge-0.2.3

Conflicts:
	configure.sh
	node/connection.py
	node/transport.py

* Immaterial conflicts in configure.sh.
* Immaterial conflict in node/connection.py: Since #839 the message is
  sent uncompressed by default.
* Conflicts in node/transport.py due to various refactorings, mostly the
  PeerListener extraction (#678): _on_raw_messge now resides in
  node/connection.py and it does not decompress the message since #839.
Update changelog and README.
Merge pull request #886 from Renelvon/backmerge-0.2.3

Backmerging master 0.2.3