Release proposal: v2.3.4

There will be a "high" severity fix to OpenSSL this thursday. See https://mta.openssl.org/pipermail/openssl-announce/2015-July/000037.html

We should probably look at having a release that day, if possible.

cc @shigeki / @indutny

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• [bca53dce76] - path: refactor for performance and consistency (Nathan Woltman) #1778
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