diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger and hledger-lib.
 
 
-0.27 (unreleased)
+0.27.1 (2016/05/27)
+
+- GHC 8 compatibility
+
+
+0.27 (2015/10/30)
 
 Account aliases:
 
diff --git a/hledger.cabal b/hledger.cabal
--- a/hledger.cabal
+++ b/hledger.cabal
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 -- see: https://github.com/sol/hpack
 
 name:           hledger
-version:        0.27
+version:        0.27.1
 stability:      stable
 category:       Finance, Console
 synopsis:       Command-line interface for the hledger accounting tool
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 bug-reports:    http://bugs.hledger.org
 cabal-version:  >= 1.10
 build-type:     Simple
-tested-with:    GHC==7.4.2, GHC==7.6.3, GHC==7.8.4, GHC==7.10.2
+tested-with:    GHC==7.6.3, GHC==7.8.4, GHC==7.10.3, GHC==8.0.1
 
 extra-source-files:
     CHANGES
@@ -55,9 +55,9 @@
 
 library
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-type-defaults -fno-warn-orphans
-  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27"
+  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27.1"
   build-depends:
-      hledger-lib == 0.27
+      hledger-lib == 0.27.1
     , base >= 4.3 && < 5
     , base-compat >= 0.8.1
     , containers
@@ -129,9 +129,9 @@
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-type-defaults -fno-warn-orphans
   if flag(threaded)
     ghc-options: -threaded
-  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27"
+  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27.1"
   build-depends:
-      hledger-lib == 0.27
+      hledger-lib == 0.27.1
     , base >= 4.3 && < 5
     , base-compat >= 0.8.1
     , containers
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@
     , tabular >= 0.2 && < 0.3
     , utf8-string >= 0.3.5 && < 1.1
     , wizards == 1.0.*
-    , hledger == 0.27
+    , hledger == 0.27.1
 
   if impl(ghc >= 7.10)
     build-depends: shakespeare      >= 2.0.2.2 && < 2.1
@@ -182,9 +182,9 @@
   hs-source-dirs:
       test
   ghc-options: -Wall -fno-warn-unused-do-bind -fno-warn-name-shadowing -fno-warn-missing-signatures -fno-warn-type-defaults -fno-warn-orphans
-  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27"
+  cpp-options: -DVERSION="0.27.1"
   build-depends:
-      hledger-lib == 0.27
+      hledger-lib == 0.27.1
     , base >= 4.3 && < 5
     , base-compat >= 0.8.1
     , containers