Bumping version number to 1.10.0 in anticipation of next release.

This mostly copies the changes from 220b0f6.
Merge pull request #214 from thomasvandoren/version-1-10

Bumping version number to 1.10.0 in anticipation of next release.

This mostly copies the changes from 220b0f6.

reviewed by @bradcray and @vasslitvinov