diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34d22728d3..5e272dcebf 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 # Minikube Release Notes
 
+# Version 0.27.0 - 5/14/2018
+* Start the default network for the kvm2 driver [@2806](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2806)
+* Fix 1.9.x versions of Kubernetes with the kubeadm bootstrapper [#2791](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2791)
+* Switch the ingress addon from an RC to a Deployment [#2788](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2788)
+* Update nginx ingress controller to 0.14.0 [#2780](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2780)
+* Disable dnsmasq on network for kvm driver [#2745](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2745)
+
 # Version 0.26.1 - 4/17/2018
 * Mark hyperkit, kvm2 and none drivers as supported [#2734](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2723) and [#2728](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2728)
 * Bug fix for hyper-v driver [#2719](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2719)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6e298113e8..2427c6f62e 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -14,8 +14,8 @@
 
 # Bump these on release
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 0
-VERSION_MINOR ?= 26
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 1
+VERSION_MINOR ?= 27
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 0
 VERSION ?= v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 DEB_VERSION ?= $(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR)-$(VERSION_BUILD)
 INSTALL_SIZE ?= $(shell du out/minikube-windows-amd64.exe | cut -f1)