diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index f87bf9365..05ab7a12e 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-## Next release
+## Latest changes
+
+## 0.27.1
 
 * Fix `auto_error=False` handling in `HTTPBearer` security scheme. Do not `raise` when there's an incorrect `Authorization` header if `auto_error=False`. PR [#282](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi/pull/282).
 
diff --git a/fastapi/__init__.py b/fastapi/__init__.py
index 6d47165dc..a37c38c71 100644
--- a/fastapi/__init__.py
+++ b/fastapi/__init__.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 """FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production"""
 
-__version__ = "0.27.0"
+__version__ = "0.27.1"
 
 from starlette.background import BackgroundTasks