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+September 28, 2016
+==========
+* Released version 0.8.1 of Python package cartodb\_services
+  * Improvements in QPS retry decorator for requests to external services
+
+https://github.com/CartoDB/dataservices-api/releases/tag/python-0.8.1
+
 September 8, 2016
 ===========
 * Released version 0.11.1 of the client