diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index fd8fc02b5..ef428f6f6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+## 1.27.6
+
+### Fixes
+- Allow collections matchers to work correctly when expected has nil elements [60e7cf3]
+
+### Maintenance
+- updates MatchError godoc comment to also accept a Gomega matcher (#654) [67b869d]
+
 ## 1.27.5
 
 ### Maintenance
diff --git a/gomega_dsl.go b/gomega_dsl.go
index 593bcdc66..872592bfb 100644
--- a/gomega_dsl.go
+++ b/gomega_dsl.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega/types"
 )
 
-const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.27.5"
+const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.27.6"
 
 const nilGomegaPanic = `You are trying to make an assertion, but haven't registered Gomega's fail handler.
 If you're using Ginkgo then you probably forgot to put your assertion in an It().