diff --git a/Changelog.yaml b/Changelog.yaml
index bfa5a443da..478e6a311b 100644
--- a/Changelog.yaml
+++ b/Changelog.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,60 @@
 #  new recipes:
 #    - title: 
 
+- version: 0.8.27
+  date: 2011-11-18
+
+  new features:
+    - title: "Drivers for the Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet"
+      tickets: [890918] 
+
+    - title: "Conversion: Add an option under Look & Feel to remove specified style information (CSS) from the document during conversion."
+      tickets: [871384]
+
+    - title: "Add an option in the bulk metadata edit dialog to restore the pre-conversion files for many books with a single click."
+      tickets: [886116]
+
+    - title: "Jobs list: Add the ability to search for and to hide jobs, useful if you have run a lot of jobs and the list is getting crowded."
+      tickets: [883734]
+
+    - title: "Book jacket generation: Add ability to customize the book jacket template and add custom columns into the jacket."
+      tickets: [889912]
+
+    - title: "MOBI Input: Performance improvement when viewing/converting a file with a lot of links"
+  
+  bug fixes:
+    - title: "Fix regression in 0.8.26 that broke disabling the update of particular fields during a bulk metadata download." 
+      tickets: [889696]
+
+    - title: "Get Books: Fix DRM status for legimi"
+
+    - title: "When parsing for lxml via BeatifulSoup, use the calibre modified copy of BeautifulSoup (more robust)."
+      tickets: [889890]
+
+    - title: "HTML Input: Handle double encoded URLs in img tags"
+      tickets: [889323] 
+
+  improved recipes:
+    - Various Polish recipes
+    - Academia Catavencu
+    - El Periodico de Aragon 
+    - Weblogs SL
+    - Folha de Sao Paolo (subscription)
+
+  new recipes:
+    - title: News on Japan
+      author: Krittika Goyal
+
+    - title: Formula AS 
+      author: Silviu Cotoara
+
+    - title: Various Turkish news sources 
+      author: Osman Kaysan
+
+    - title: Infra.pl and Spider's Web 
+      author: fenuks
+
+
 - version: 0.8.26
   date: 2011-11-12
 
diff --git a/recipes/histmag.recipe b/recipes/histmag.recipe
index 846bab2f66..0009580e49 100644
--- a/recipes/histmag.recipe
+++ b/recipes/histmag.recipe
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2010, matek09, matek09@gmail.com'
 
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-import re
 
 class Histmag(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title          = u'Histmag'
diff --git a/recipes/japan_news.recipe b/recipes/japan_news.recipe
index 3c5e459f99..12db4c9673 100644
--- a/recipes/japan_news.recipe
+++ b/recipes/japan_news.recipe
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 from calibre.web.feeds.news import BasicNewsRecipe
-from calibre.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
 
 class NewsOnJapan(BasicNewsRecipe):
     title          = u'News On Japan'
@@ -14,6 +13,6 @@ class NewsOnJapan(BasicNewsRecipe):
 
 
     feeds          = [
-('News', 
+('News',
  'http://newsonjapan.com/rss/top.xml'),
-]
\ No newline at end of file
+]
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index 57dd3d181e..b4b4741293 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ __license__   = 'GPL v3'
 __copyright__ = '2008, Kovid Goyal kovid@kovidgoyal.net'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 __appname__   = u'calibre'
-numeric_version = (0, 8, 26)
+numeric_version = (0, 8, 27)
 __version__   = u'.'.join(map(unicode, numeric_version))
 __author__    = u"Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"