pr for #958 PR

Author: Kully

Diff for: CHANGELOG.md

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 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2.5.0] - UNRELEASED
+### Fixed
+- `import plotly.figure_factory` does not fail if `pandas` is not installed.
+
 ## [2.4.1] - 2018-02-21
 ### Fixed
 - The required shapefiles to generate the choropleths via `plotly.figure_factory.create_choropleth` are now shipped in the package data.

Diff for: plotly/version.py

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-__version__ = '2.4.1'
+__version__ = '2.5.0'