diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
index b398961..e3121d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
@@ -108,6 +108,13 @@
  * "git restore --staged --worktree" now defaults to take the contents
    out of "HEAD", instead of erring out.
 
+ * "git p4" learned to recover from a (broken) state where a directory
+   and a file are recorded at the same path in the Perforce repository
+   the same way as their clients do.
+
+ * "git multi-pack-index repack" has been taught to honor some
+   repack.* configuration variables.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -167,6 +174,10 @@
  * Instead of always building all branches at GitHub via Actions,
    users can specify which branches to build.
 
+ * Codepaths that show progress meter have been taught to also use the
+   start_progress() and the stop_progress() calls as a "region" to be
+   traced.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.26
 -----------------
@@ -444,6 +455,21 @@
    e.g. auto-follow tags.
    (merge 08450ef791 cc/upload-pack-v2-fetch-fix later to maint).
 
+ * "git bisect replay" had trouble with input files when they used
+   CRLF line ending, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 6c722cbe5a cw/bisect-replay-with-dos later to maint).
+
+ * "rebase -i" segfaulted when rearranging a sequence that has a
+   fix-up that applies another fix-up (which may or may not be a
+   fix-up of yet another step).
+   (merge 02471e7e20 js/rebase-autosquash-double-fixup-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git fsck" ensures that the paths recorded in tree objects are
+   sorted and without duplicates, but it failed to notice a case where
+   a blob is followed by entries that sort before a tree with the same
+   name.  This has been corrected.
+   (merge 9068cfb20f rs/fsck-duplicate-names-in-trees later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint).
    (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint).
@@ -472,3 +498,4 @@
    (merge bdccbf7047 mt/doc-worktree-ref later to maint).
    (merge ce9baf234f dl/push-recurse-submodules-fix later to maint).
    (merge 4153274052 bc/doc-credential-helper-value later to maint).
+   (merge 5c7bb0146e jc/codingstyle-compare-with-null later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 21f929e..03d2243 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.26.GIT
+DEF_VER=v2.27.0-rc0
 
 LF='
 '