update readme for 1.7.1 and 2.0.1

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Initially developed by Daan Leijen for the run-time systems of the
[Koka](https://koka-lang.github.io) and [Lean](https://github.com/leanprover/lean) languages.
Latest release tag: `v2.0.0` (beta, 2021-01-31).
Latest stable tag: `v1.7.0` (2021-01-31).
Latest release tag: `v2.0.1` (beta, 2021-04-06).
Latest stable tag: `v1.7.1` (2021-04-06).
mimalloc is a drop-in replacement for `malloc` and can be used in other programs
without code changes, for example, on dynamically linked ELF-based systems (Linux, BSD, etc.) you can use it as:
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* `dev`: development branch for mimalloc v1.
* `dev-slice`: development branch for mimalloc v2 with a new algorithm for managing internal mimalloc pages.
### Release
### Releases
* 2021-04-06, `v1.7.1`, `v2.0.1` (beta): fix bug in arena allocation for huge pages, improved aslr on large allocations, improved M1 support (still experimental).
* 2021-01-31, `v2.0.0`: beta release 2.0: new algorithm for managing internal mimalloc pages that tends to use reduce memory usage
and fragmentation compared to mimalloc v1 (especially for large workloads). Should otherwise have similar performance
(see [below](#performance)); please report if you observe any significant performance regression.