From d3688f25533d7feb10012df9e1bb5962b5c8f1aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Eschbacher <andy.eschbacher@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:23:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] adds NEWS and CONTRIBUTING

---
 CONTRIBUTING.md | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 NEWS.rst        | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 49 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 CONTRIBUTING.md
 create mode 100644 NEWS.rst

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a1408a2e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+# Contributing to CARTOframes
+
+## Feature request
+
+If you'd like to request a feature, first check <https://github.com/cartodb/cartoframes/issues> to see if your request already exists. If it exists, comment on that issie. If it does not, open a new issue clearly defining the need and use case.
+
+## Reporting bugs
+
+If the but is not already reported, open a new issue. Please give the following information:
+
+* Code snippet that produced the error
+* Relevant error messages
+* cartoframes version (find it with `print(cartoframes.__version__)`)
+* Python version (e.g., 3.5, 2.7, etc.)
+* Operation system (Windows, Linux, etc.)
+
+## Pull requests
+
+### External contributors
+
+CARTOframes has automated testing against a working CARTO account, and the authentication information is not public. Because of this, external pull requests currently cannot successfully run the full suite of tests.
+ 
+ To run tests, rename the file `secret.json.sample` to `secret.json` and fill in the credentials for a CARTO account to which you have access. NOTE: the tests require access to different CARTO services like the Data Observatory, so the tests consume quota.
+
+To open a pull request:
+
+1. Open against the `develop` branch, which we will keep up-to-date with `master`
+2. Tag @andy-esch for review
+3. Once the PR has been approved, we'll merge it into `develop`, and then open a fresh pull request against `master` for running the continuous integration. Once tests are successful, we will tag the original contributor there and give final notice before merging in.
+
+### Internal contributors
+
+Open a new pull request against the `master` branch and tag @andy-esch.
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..32deb3d76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.rst
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+Changelog
+=========
+
+0.5.0b9
+-------
+
+Released 2017-12-14
+
+Updates
+
+- Adds `CartoContext.data_boundaries`
+- `CartoContext.data_discovery` returns non-denominated data
+- Expands `CartoContext.data` to do measure lookups based on `geom_refs`
+- Expands styling methods to take pre-defined bins
+- Adds a compression option for write operations
+- Fixes file system path creation to be generic to OS

From 4876d8f2dbfb99b10ab2f7ada9036ef0eb5c5472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Eschbacher <andy.eschbacher@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2017 22:24:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] bumps minor version

---
 cartoframes/__version__.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cartoframes/__version__.py b/cartoframes/__version__.py
index ecec5e33d..b51695636 100644
--- a/cartoframes/__version__.py
+++ b/cartoframes/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.4.2b8'
+__version__ = '0.5.0b9'