diff --git a/IDMETA b/IDMETA
index 67a1131c7..aa0c7f8fd 100755
--- a/IDMETA
+++ b/IDMETA
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 DEBIAN_DIST="stretch jessie wheezy"
 UBUNTU_DIST="bionic xenial trusty"
 CENTOS_DIST="centos6 centos7"
-VERSION=5.26.1
+VERSION=5.27.0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d979b7004..8fd70a9e4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+--- 5.27.0 2018/10/08
+
+GFS: Allow External type TaskPackage response YAZ-915
+
+zoomsh: fset command YAZ-916
+
+Improve logging of extended service task type YAZ-914
+
+yaz-client: document the third arg to the show command #37
+
 --- 5.26.1 2018/07/11
 
 Fix segv with element-set=null and split YAZ-913
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index ae6201efb..9441f1f13 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ override_dh_auto_install:
 	mv debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/yaz debian/tmp/usr/share/doc/yaz-doc
 
 override_dh_makeshlibs:
-	dh_makeshlibs -V 'libyaz5 (>= 5.24.0)'
+	dh_makeshlibs -V 'libyaz5 (>= 5.27.0)'
 
 override_dh_installchangelogs:
 	dh_installchangelogs NEWS