# HG changeset patch
# User Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
# Date 1508430867 -7200
# Node ID d348d476153a4eed9de07977cc3a4c01688edaf8
# Parent  1834e63392794c72987cc521faa1e7da9d166490
Also update the release notes for the new release

diff --git a/release.txt b/release.txt
--- a/release.txt
+++ b/release.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 RELEASE NOTES
-MonetDB JDBC driver version 2.26 (Liberica/MCL-1.15)
-Release date: 2017-07-28
+MonetDB JDBC driver version 2.27 (Liberica/MCL-1.16)
+Release date: 2017-10-23
 
 This JDBC driver is designed for use with MonetDB, a main-memory column-store RDBMS.
 For more information see https://www.monetdb.org/
 
-The MonetDB JDBC connection URL format is:
+The MonetDB JDBC connection URL format to use is:
   jdbc:monetdb://<hostname>[:<portnr>]/<databasename>[?<property>=<value>[&<property>=<value>]]
 
-The databasename must be provided and be equal to the name of the database served by the
-mserver5 process listening on the specified host and port number (default port is 50000).
+Note: For a successful connection the database name part must be provided
+ and be equal to the name of the database served by the mserver5 process running on
+ the specified host and listening to the specified port number (default port is 50000).
 
 Supported connection properties are:
 	user=<login name>
@@ -23,14 +24,12 @@ Supported connection properties are:
 	logfile=<name of logfile>
 
 For example:
-  jdbc:monetdb://localhost:41000/demo?user=monetdb&password=monetdb&so_timeout=7000&treat_clob_as_varchar=true
+  jdbc:monetdb://localhost:41000/mydb?user=monetdb&password=monetdb&so_timeout=7000&treat_clob_as_varchar=true
 
 See also: https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Manuals/SQLreference/Programming/JDBC
 
-In a java program you can use: DatabaseMetaData.getClientInfoProperties();
-to retrieve the connection properties information from the driver.
 
-
+JDBC COMPLIANCE
 The MonetDB JDBC driver complies to JDBC 4.1 definition, see
  http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/jdbc/index.html