diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index a5c7787c4105a49d4355ef0d3b47461cc9ac06e2..1780b6ad2deefa74e74c50564b22959670dd4c94 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 "2.27.1" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
+  :version "2.27.2" ;; 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/defsystem.lisp b/defsystem.lisp
index 0d8307f2ecc389db9465c8c74635e7c9f9baa287..66eb5c3b0d894275d634cd796151558ad32b8803 100644
--- a/defsystem.lisp
+++ b/defsystem.lisp
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@
   ;;    and may be from within the EVAL-WHEN of a file compilation.
   ;; If no absolute pathname was found, we return NIL.
   (check-type pathname (or null string pathname))
-  (resolve-symlinks*
-   (pathname-directory-pathname
+  (pathname-directory-pathname
+   (resolve-symlinks*
     (ensure-absolute-pathname
      (parse-unix-namestring pathname :type :directory)
      #'(lambda () (ensure-absolute-pathname
diff --git a/header.lisp b/header.lisp
index 6534c9b085a8e508c99aed5004c23626bd1f1304..6c29872aef0f2f62b74c798ab239f510b689e1b3 100644
--- a/header.lisp
+++ b/header.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.27.1: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.27.2: 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 7def8e425419a24b38b4ee895d06d2b330f8f26b..7ab144fcfb9d3db61e84ada8dffb52540b626d51 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 "2.27.1")
+         (asdf-version "2.27.2")
          (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 92b7dcbb0705b3408a679a33b7bf43875d8f2b8b..2d452260c110f5e312f0477189f11fa4da4144ba 100644
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"2.27.1"
+"2.27.2"