diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: rmarkdown
 Title: Dynamic Documents for R
-Version: 2.26.2
+Version: 2.27
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "jj@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", , "xie@yihui.name", role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0645-5666")),