- Error handling on request timeouts has been improved
**2015-11-10**
2.9.1
- Add parameter ``network_delay`` to Bot.getUpdates for slow connections
**2015-11-10**
2.9
- Emoji class now uses ``bytes_to_native_str`` from ``future`` 3rd party lib - Make ``user_from`` optional to work with channels - Raise exception if Telegram times out on long-polling
*Special thanks to jh0ker for all hard work*
**2015-10-08**
2.8.7
- Type as optional for ``GroupChat`` class
**2015-10-08**
2.8.6
- Adds type to ``User`` and ``GroupChat`` classes (pre-release Telegram feature)
**2015-09-24**
2.8.5
- Handles HTTP Bad Gateway (503) errors on request - Fixes regression on ``Audio`` and ``Document`` for unicode fields