Eli Zaretskii writes on the Emacs Development list that he’s created the Emacs 27 release branch. Next up is the Emacs 27.1 pretest, which he hopes to release soon. He’s also set the version number of Emacs on the Master branch to 28.0.50.

Emacs 27 is finally in sight. In the meantime, we can start obsessing about Emacs 28. If you haven’t already, take a look at John Wiegley’s video on what’s coming in Emacs 27.