[gtk-doc] release: update news and date in manual

[Stefan Sauer <stefkost src gnome org>]

commit 31c38e0a948b000ff3c62765759376bc40b73bbf
Author: Stefan Sauer <ensonic users sf net>
Date:   Thu Dec 7 05:59:58 2017 +0100

    release: update news and date in manual

 NEWS                        |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 configure.ac                |    2 +-
 help/manual/C/index.docbook |    6 +++---
 3 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 345623d..f743d51 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,7 +1,37 @@
-GTK-Doc 1.26.1  (... .. ....)
+GTK-Doc 1.27  (Dec 07 2017)
 ==============
 
-Development
+Finetune the python port.
+
+ Changes
+
+ o 773879 : scangobj: Do not generate unused parameters
+ o 786174 : Several test failures on Arch Linux
+ o 787495 : gtkdoc-fixxref crashes when running vim for syntax highlighting
+ o 787768 : Aborts when glib2.0-dev is not installed
+ o 787862 : Always open files in text mode and always use utf-8
+ o 788473 : fixxref crashes if a .devhelp2.gz file is found
+ o 789531 : Don't depend on the system shell
+ o 790022 : mkdb: Add support for (not optional) annotation
+ o 791131 : gtk-doc and python3: fixxref failures
+
+ Contributors
+
+ Alban Browaeys
+ Anders Jonsson
+ Christian Kirbach
+ Christoph Reiter
+ Daniel Mustieles
+ gkrithi8
+ Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
+ Marek Cernocky
+ Michael Catanzaro
+ Pavel Grunt
+ Philip Withnall
+ Rafael Fontenelle
+ Simon McVittie
+ Stefan Sauer
+ Will Thompson
 
 GTK-Doc 1.26  (Aug 11 2017)
 ============
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 2bc110c..754c414 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ dnl Use a simple 2-digit version number for a while, since our old example
 dnl Makefile can only cope with that, i.e. use 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ... 9.9.
 dnl FIXME: I can't see anything failing (1.14.1), lets try to use a three digit
 dnl number for the development version
-m4_define(gtk_doc_version, 1.26.1)
+m4_define(gtk_doc_version, 1.27)
 
 AC_INIT([gtk-doc],[gtk_doc_version],[http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gtk-doc],[gtk-doc])
 
diff --git a/help/manual/C/index.docbook b/help/manual/C/index.docbook
index d13bfb1..c5e7be8 100644
--- a/help/manual/C/index.docbook
+++ b/help/manual/C/index.docbook
@@ -81,10 +81,10 @@
 
     <revhistory>
       <revision>
-         <revnumber>1.26.1</revnumber>
-         <date>11 Aug 2017</date>
+         <revnumber>1.27</revnumber>
+         <date>07 Dec 2017</date>
          <authorinitials>ss</authorinitials>
-         <revremark>development</revremark>
+         <revremark>fine tuning of the python port</revremark>
        </revision>
       <revision>
          <revnumber>1.26</revnumber>