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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ Improved GDAL support.
 - The vendored GDAL library has been updated to 1.11.1.
 - GDAL bootstrapping now also installs the GEOS and Proj.4 libraries.
 
+Updated pip to 8.1.0.
+
 ## v77 (2016-02-10)
 
 Improvements to warnings and minor bugfix.
diff --git a/bin/compile b/bin/compile
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ LEGACY_TRIGGER="lib/python2.7"
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_VERSION="python-2.7.11"
 DEFAULT_PYTHON_STACK="cedar-14"
 PYTHON_EXE="/app/.heroku/python/bin/python"
-PIP_VERSION="8.0.2"
+PIP_VERSION="8.1.0"
 SETUPTOOLS_VERSION="19.6"
 
 # Common Problem Warnings
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