diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 25447eb0..2c1d8ae6 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -369,3 +369,5 @@ Kevin Adler <kadler@us.ibm.com>
 Stephen Belanger <admin@stephenbelanger.com>
 yeyuanfeng <yeyuanfeng@bytedance.com>
 erw7 <erw7.github@gmail.com>
+Thomas Karl Pietrowski <thopiekar@gmail.com>
+evgley <evgley@gmail.com>
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7f02045e..c7951371 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,62 @@
+2019.03.17, Version 1.27.0 (Stable)
+
+Changes since version 1.26.0:
+
+* doc: describe unix signal handling better (Vladimír Čunát)
+
+* linux: use statx() to obtain file birth time (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* src: fill sockaddr_in6.sin6_len when it's defined (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* test: relax uv_hrtime() test assumptions (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* build: make cmake install LICENSE only once (Thomas Karl Pietrowski)
+
+* bsd: plug uv_fs_event_start() error path fd leak (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix: fix __FreeBSD_kernel__ typo (cjihrig)
+
+* doc: add note about uv_run() not being reentrant (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* unix, win: make fs-poll close wait for resource cleanup (Anna Henningsen)
+
+* doc: fix typo in uv_thread_options_t definition (Ryan Liptak)
+
+* win: skip winsock initialization in safe mode (evgley)
+
+* unix: refactor getsockname/getpeername methods (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* win,udp: allow to use uv_udp_open on bound sockets (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* udp: add support for UDP connected sockets (Santiago Gimeno)
+
+* build: fix uv_test shared uv Windows cmake build (ptlomholt)
+
+* build: add android-configure scripts to EXTRA_DIST (Ben Noordhuis)
+
+* build: add missing header (cjihrig)
+
+* sunos: add perror() output prior to abort() (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test,sunos: disable UV_DISCONNECT handling (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* sunos: disable __attribute__((unused)) (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test,sunos: use unistd.h code branch (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* build,sunos: better handling of non-GCC compiler (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test,sunos: fix statement not reached warnings (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* sunos: fix argument/prototype mismatch in atomics (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test,sunos: test-ipc.c lacks newline at EOF (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test: change spawn_stdin_stdout return to void (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+* test: remove call to floor() in test driver (Andrew Paprocki)
+
+
 2019.02.11, Version 1.26.0 (Stable), 8669d8d3e93cddb62611b267ef62a3ddb5ba3ca0
 
 Changes since version 1.25.0:
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index fb1b0acd..336e55b1 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.57)
-AC_INIT([libuv], [1.26.0], [https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues])
+AC_INIT([libuv], [1.27.0], [https://github.com/libuv/libuv/issues])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])
 m4_include([m4/libuv-extra-automake-flags.m4])
 m4_include([m4/as_case.m4])
diff --git a/include/uv/version.h b/include/uv/version.h
index 2262f73a..4f653983 100644
--- a/include/uv/version.h
+++ b/include/uv/version.h
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@
  */
 
 #define UV_VERSION_MAJOR 1
-#define UV_VERSION_MINOR 26
-#define UV_VERSION_PATCH 1
-#define UV_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 0
-#define UV_VERSION_SUFFIX "dev"
+#define UV_VERSION_MINOR 27
+#define UV_VERSION_PATCH 0
+#define UV_VERSION_IS_RELEASE 1
+#define UV_VERSION_SUFFIX ""
 
 #define UV_VERSION_HEX  ((UV_VERSION_MAJOR << 16) | \
                          (UV_VERSION_MINOR <<  8) | \