diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 8af8762..722b947 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+*0.2.7* (July 7th, 2009)
+
 * support punctuation in wildcard matching
 
 * fixing nested search calls
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index 1b108a9..49f4ad7 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ require 'rubygems'
 require 'rake'
 require 'echoe'
 
-Echoe.new('xapit', '0.2.6') do |p|
+Echoe.new('xapit', '0.2.7') do |p|
   p.summary        = "Ruby library for interacting with Xapian, a full text search engine."
   p.description    = "Ruby library for interacting with Xapian, a full text search engine."
   p.url            = "http://github.com/ryanb/xapit"