diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1186c9b72..2d7654c6b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
+Overview of changes leading to 0.9.27
+Tuesday, March 18, 2014
+=====================================
+
+- Don't use "register" storage class specifier
+- Wrap definition of free_langs() with HAVE_ATEXIT
+- Add coretext_aat shaper and hb_coretext_face_create() constructor
+- If HAVE_ICU_BUILTIN is defined, use hb-icu Unicode callbacks
+- Add Myanmar test case from OpenType Myanmar spec
+- Only do fallback Hebrew composition if no GPOS 'mark' available
+- Allow bootstrapping without gtk-doc
+- Use AM_MISSING_PROG for ragel and git
+- Typo in ucdn's Makefile.am
+- Improve MemoryBarrier() implementation
+
+
 Overview of changes leading to 0.9.26
 Thursday, January 30, 2014
 =====================================
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e2be46368..800a69830 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 AC_PREREQ([2.64])
 AC_INIT([HarfBuzz],
-        [0.9.26],
+        [0.9.27],
         [http://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=harfbuzz],
         [harfbuzz],
         [http://harfbuzz.org/])