From 23774383dc1e59778cbe5d676303944a4ec1c2fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Noam Meltzer <tsnoam@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:04:35 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Bump version & update CHANGES.rst for 8.1.0 release

---
 CHANGES.rst         | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 docs/source/conf.py |  4 ++--
 telegram/version.py |  2 +-
 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 52512c252..e20dd99c3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,24 @@
 =======
 Changes
 =======
+**2010-10-14**
+*Released 8.1.0*
+
+New features
+- Support Bot API 3.4 (PR `#865`_).
+
+Changes
+- MessgaeHandler & RegexHandler now consider channel_updates.
+- Fix command not recognized if it is directly followed by a newline (PR `#869`_).
+- Removed Bot._message_wrapper (PR `#822`_).
+- Unitests are now also running on Appveyor (Windows VM).
+- Various unitest improvments.
+- Documentation fixes.
+
+.. _`#822`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/822
+.. _`#865`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/865
+.. _`#869`: https://github.com/python-telegram-bot/python-telegram-bot/pull/869
+
 **2017-09-01**
 *Released 8.0.0*
 
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 72c4b3b6a..805483eb5 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ author = u'Leandro Toledo'
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = '8.0'  # telegram.__version__[:3]
+version = '8.1'  # telegram.__version__[:3]
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = '8.0.0'  # telegram.__version__
+release = '8.1.0'  # telegram.__version__
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/telegram/version.py b/telegram/version.py
index a6b572109..05b566e45 100644
--- a/telegram/version.py
+++ b/telegram/version.py
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser Public License
 # along with this program.  If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/].
 
-__version__ = '8.0'
+__version__ = '8.1.0'