diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index db1d00d..1f7a572 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,12 @@
 
+0.1a27
+------
+
+- [feature] Overhauled file monitors.  Added the "process existing" (defaults
+  to true) and "stop on error" (defaults to false) features to both Linux and
+  Win32 file monitors.  Both features may be overridden in config.  The Linux
+  file monitor was rewritten as an ``edbob.daemon.Daemon`` class.
+
 0.1a26
 ------
 
diff --git a/edbob/_version.py b/edbob/_version.py
index 581b4f3..d1df1fb 100644
--- a/edbob/_version.py
+++ b/edbob/_version.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = '0.1a26'
+__version__ = '0.1a27'