diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index 1780b6ad2deefa74e74c50564b22959670dd4c94..7586c55b0b7576ca835ecc69a50957d0da74aaec 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "2.27.2" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
+  :version "2.28" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
   :depends-on ()
   #+asdf3 :encoding #+asdf3 :utf-8
   ;; For most purposes, asdf itself specially counts as a builtin system.
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 439ea3a189c85d0df1d0ba9fe202416261d8fe3e..1142998f9f2fd3f186b4621b50d95cdecdc7e65f 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+cl-asdf (2:2.28-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+ ASDF 2.28 is a quick patch to ASDF 2.27 to make it work better with
+ systems that specify a relative pathname, then at runtime (e.g. in tests)
+ use merge-pathnames or merge-pathnames* against it expecting a directory.
+
+ -- Francois-Rene Rideau <fare@tunes.org>  Fri, 01 Feb 2013 17:07:53 -0500
+
 cl-asdf (2:2.27-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   ASDF 2.27 is actually an almost complete rewrite of ASDF, and
diff --git a/header.lisp b/header.lisp
index 6c29872aef0f2f62b74c798ab239f510b689e1b3..010039be936fe928984106a085ac0dc0438dbc3b 100644
--- a/header.lisp
+++ b/header.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.27.2: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.28: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
diff --git a/upgrade.lisp b/upgrade.lisp
index 7ab144fcfb9d3db61e84ada8dffb52540b626d51..be8534df2ed24f4257955d53c9e4d4ed70608caa 100644
--- a/upgrade.lisp
+++ b/upgrade.lisp
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ You can compare this string with e.g.: (ASDF:VERSION-SATISFIES (ASDF:ASDF-VERSIO
          ;; "3.4.5.67" would be a development version in the official upstream of 3.4.5.
          ;; "3.4.5.0.8" would be your eighth local modification of official release 3.4.5
          ;; "3.4.5.67.8" would be your eighth local modification of development version 3.4.5.67
-         (asdf-version "2.27.2")
+         (asdf-version "2.28")
          (existing-version (asdf-version)))
     (setf *asdf-version* asdf-version)
     (when (and existing-version (not (equal asdf-version existing-version)))
diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index 2d452260c110f5e312f0477189f11fa4da4144ba..ad32bfc0735c99cd9c7a81bf943e57251176ec88 100644
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"2.27.2"
+"2.28"