In first item of [What's New 0.16.0](https://github.com/PythonCharmers/python-future/blob/master/docs/whatsnew.rst#whats-new-in-version-0160-2016-10-27): > Fix newbytes constructor bug. (Issue #163) However, issue 163 seemed unrelated to newbytes. It seems that #173 / #171 is about newbytes. Note that the website (python-future.org) is outdated.