From 18a6b601100db978f3a6e191816456e75bc47e0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cory Benfield <lukasaoz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 13:55:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] v2.8.1

---
 HISTORY.rst          | 14 ++++++++++++++
 requests/__init__.py |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index 4ac66ce0..02593a34 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,20 @@
 Release History
 ---------------
 
+2.8.1 (2015-10-13)
+++++++++++++++++++
+
+**Bugfixes**
+
+- Update certificate bundle to match ``certifi`` 2015.9.6.2's weak certificate
+  bundle.
+- Fix a bug in 2.8.0 where requests would raise ``ConnectTimeout`` instead of
+  ``ConnectionError``
+- When using the PreparedRequest flow, requests will now correctly respect the
+  ``json`` parameter. Broken in 2.8.0.
+- When using the PreparedRequest flow, requests will now correctly handle a
+  Unicode-string method name on Python 2. Broken in 2.8.0.
+
 2.8.0 (2015-10-05)
 ++++++++++++++++++
 
diff --git a/requests/__init__.py b/requests/__init__.py
index 546ee2bf..3d8188a7 100644
--- a/requests/__init__.py
+++ b/requests/__init__.py
@@ -42,8 +42,8 @@ is at <http://python-requests.org>.
 """
 
 __title__ = 'requests'
-__version__ = '2.8.0'
-__build__ = 0x020800
+__version__ = '2.8.1'
+__build__ = 0x020801
 __author__ = 'Kenneth Reitz'
 __license__ = 'Apache 2.0'
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright 2015 Kenneth Reitz'