diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 37642b7..e19dd2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ All notable changes to lcode are documented here. The format follows
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [0.27.0] - 2026-10-10
+
 ### Changed
 
 - Long sessions are summarized earlier: once the conversation reaches 64K tokens (`compact_at`),
@@ -573,7 +575,8 @@ First public release.
 - `AGENTS.md` project instructions and `/init` to generate them.
 - One-line installer for Linux and macOS.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.26.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.27.0...HEAD
+[0.27.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.26.0...v0.27.0
 [0.26.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.25.0...v0.26.0
 [0.25.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.24.0...v0.25.0
 [0.24.0]: https://github.com/nasser1941/lcode/compare/v0.23.0...v0.24.0
diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md
index 260bbd7..1eb6dfe 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.md
+++ b/docs/quickstart.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lcode
 
 ```text
 ╭──────────────────────────────────────────────╮
-│ lcode v0.26.0 — local coding agent           │
+│ lcode v0.27.0 — local coding agent           │
 │                                              │
 │ model    lcode-qwen3.6-35b                   │
 │ context  256K tokens                         │
diff --git a/src/lcode/__init__.py b/src/lcode/__init__.py
index 8c4bd92..8888a81 100644
--- a/src/lcode/__init__.py
+++ b/src/lcode/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 From a program: `from lcode import Session` (see lcode.api).
 """
 
-__version__ = "0.26.0"
+__version__ = "0.27.0"
 
 API = ("Session", "Result", "Options", "SetupError")