diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a8ce1d44..dc9d8a45 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,43 @@
+0.27.0
+---
+* **all**
+    * update to OpenCV 4.5.2
+* **core**
+    * add Append() to PointsVector/PointVector
+    * add cv::RNG
+    * add implementation for Point2fVector
+    * add rand functions
+    * add test coverage for PointsVector
+    * create new PointsVector/PointVector wrappers to avoid repetitive memory copying for seeming innocent operations involving slices of image.Point
+    * test coverage for Point2f
+    * use PointVector for everything that we can to speed up pipeline when passing around Point vectors
+    * use enum instead of int for Invert Method
+* **cuda**
+    * adding HoughLinesDetector and HoughSegmentDetector
+    * adding tests for the CannyEdgeDetector
+    * some refactoring of the API
+    * adding dockerfiles for OpenCV 4.5.2 with CUDA 11.2
+    * add GaussianFilter
+    * correct signature and test for Threshold
+    * implement SobelFilter
+    * move arithm module functions into correct location
+    * rename files to get rid of so many cudas
+    * add abs function implementation
+* **dnn**
+    * increase test coverage
+* **docker**
+    * make all Dockerfiles names/tags more consistent
+* **docs**
+    * add CUDA functions that need implementation to ROADMAP
+    * remove invalid sections and add some missing functions from ROADMAP
+* **imgproc**
+    * Add FindContoursWithParams function
+    * Add ToImageYUV and ToImageYUVWithParams
+* **make**
+    * add make task to show changelog for next release
+* **wechat_qrcode**
+    * disable module in Windows due to linker error
+
 0.26.0
 ---
 * **all**
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a20cb097..47a8726d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ If you need static opencv libraries
 
 If it works correctly, at the end of the entire process, the following message should be displayed:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2
 
 That's it, now you are ready to use GoCV.
@@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ If you need static opencv libraries
 
 If it works correctly, at the end of the entire process, the following message should be displayed:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2-openvino
     cuda information:
       Device 0:  "GeForce MX150"  2003Mb, sm_61, Driver/Runtime ver.10.0/10.0
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Now you should be able to build or run any of the examples:
 
 The version program should output the following:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2
 
 #### Cleanup extra files
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ The following commands should do everything to download and install OpenCV 4.5.2
 
 If it works correctly, at the end of the entire process, the following message should be displayed:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2
 
 That's it, now you are ready to use GoCV.
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ Now you should be able to build or run any of the examples:
 
 The version program should output the following:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2
 
 ### Cache builds
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ Now you should be able to build or run any of the command examples:
 
 The version program should output the following:
 
-	gocv version: 0.26.0
+	gocv version: 0.27.0
 	opencv lib version: 4.5.2
 
 That's it, now you are ready to use GoCV.
diff --git a/version.go b/version.go
index 048e32e2..71d92a75 100644
--- a/version.go
+++ b/version.go
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ package gocv
 import "C"
 
 // GoCVVersion of this package, for display purposes.
-const GoCVVersion = "0.26.0"
+const GoCVVersion = "0.27.0"
 
 // Version returns the current golang package version
 func Version() string {