Release 1.5.1 (#846)

* Bump version
* Update release notes

docs/releases.rst

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 Release notes
 =============
 
+Version 1.5.1
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+This version implements support of permanent replication slots, adds support of pgBackRest and fixes number of bugs.
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+**New features**
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+- Permanent replication slots (Alexander Kukushkin)
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+  Permanent replication slots are preserved on failover/switchover, that is, Patroni on the new primary will create configured replication slots right after doing promote. Slots could be configured with the help of `patronictl edit-config`. The initial configuration could be also done in the :ref:`bootstrap.dcs <settings>`.
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+- Add pgbackrest support (Yogesh Sharma)
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+  pgBackrest can restore in existing $PGDATA folder, this allows speedy restore as files which have not changed since last backup are skipped, to support this feature new parameter `keep_data` has been introduced. See :ref:`replica creation method <custom_replica_creation>` section for additional examples.
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+**Bug fixes**
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+- A few bugfixes in the "standby cluster" workflow (Alexander)
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+  Please see https://github.com/zalando/patroni/pull/823 for more details.
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+- Fix REST API health check when cluster management is paused and DCS is not accessible (Alexander)
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+  Regression was introduced in https://github.com/zalando/patroni/commit/90cf930036a9d5249265af15d2b787ec7517cf57
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 Version 1.5.0
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patroni/version.py

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-__version__ = '1.5.0'
+__version__ = '1.5.1'