Updates README and package.json

Increase package to 1.7.0-rc1

Increases package version

Updates package, release notes

Increments package version

Increments package version

Increment package version

Merge pull request washingtonpost#142 from washingtonpost/ca-359

Ca 359

Merge pull request washingtonpost#135 from washingtonpost/reworks-tra…

…it-publishing

Reworks trait_publishing to make elasticsearch 1.5 happy

Merge pull request washingtonpost#132 from washingtonpost/invalid-wor…

…kflow

Fixes bug in upverter where empty string status code gets converted t…