diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9b6f9c26..93fac42c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,26 @@
 
+1.2.7 | 2020-04-10 16:16:06 -0700
+
+  * Release v1.2.6
+
+  * Change topic strings to not automaticaly alter slashes (Jon Siwek, Corelight)
+
+    Automatically removing trailing or consecutive slashes in topic strings
+    prevents uniquely targeting topic names to a node.
+
+    For example, publishing to "node-10/" should not match a subscription
+    for "node-1/", but that's what happens with prefix-based matching if the
+    trailing slash is automatically removed.
+
+  * Add Cirrus CI config and remove Travis CI config (Jon Siwek, Corelight)
+
+    The CMake configuration also now prefers choosing a Python3 installation
+    over Python2 (since that's end-of-life) for building the Broker Python
+    bindings.
+
+    Some timeout values in unit tests were also fiddled to work better in
+    the CI environment.
+
 1.2.6 | 2020-03-09 13:11:25 -0700
 
   * Release v1.2.6
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4e4f1df5..22e085a9 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,39 @@
-Broker 2.0.0
+Broker 1.2.7
+============
+
+Change topic strings to not automatically alter slashes
+
+Automatically removing trailing or consecutive slashes in topic strings
+prevents uniquely targeting topic names to a node.
+
+For example, publishing to "node-10/" should not match a subscription
+for "node-1/", but that's what happens with prefix-based matching if the
+trailing slash is automatically removed.
+
+Broker 1.2.6
+============
+
+Fix a race condition in data store flare operations
+
+The race (as seen via Zeek usage) goes like:
+
+Thread A: enqueue item, get suspended
+Thread B: sees mailbox has items
+Thread B: dequeue item
+Thread B: extinguish flare
+Thread A: resume, fire flare
+
+That ordering can leave the flare in an active state without any actual
+items remaining in the mailbox.
+
+This patch adds a mutex/lock such that extinguishing of the flare cannot
+be interleaved between the enqueue and firing of the flare.
+
+This likely relates to https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/838
+https://github.com/zeek/zeek/issues/716, as well as this thread
+http://mailman.icsi.berkeley.edu/pipermail/zeek/2020-February/015062.html
+
+Broker 1.2.0
 ============
 
 This release contains breaking API changes (for C++ code, not Python)
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 3c43790f..c04c650a 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-1.2.6
+1.2.7
diff --git a/broker/topic.hh b/broker/topic.hh
index a076b70d..8e75a6c1 100644
--- a/broker/topic.hh
+++ b/broker/topic.hh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public:
     >::type
   >
   topic(T&& x) : str_(std::forward<T>(x)) {
-    clean();
+    // nop
   }
 
   /// Appends a topic components with a separator.
@@ -62,7 +62,6 @@ public:
   }
 
 private:
-  void clean();
 
   std::string str_;
 };
diff --git a/broker/version.hh b/broker/version.hh
index e940062a..af88ad00 100644
--- a/broker/version.hh
+++ b/broker/version.hh
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ using type = unsigned;
 
 constexpr type major = 1;
 constexpr type minor = 2;
-constexpr type patch = 6;
+constexpr type patch = 7;
 constexpr auto suffix = "";
 
 constexpr type protocol = 2;
diff --git a/src/topic.cc b/src/topic.cc
index 635ee21e..2636a53d 100644
--- a/src/topic.cc
+++ b/src/topic.cc
@@ -48,19 +48,6 @@ bool topic::prefix_of(const topic& t) const {
          && t.str_.compare(0, str_.size(), str_) == 0;
 }
 
-void topic::clean() {
-  // Remove one or more separators at the end.
-  while (!str_.empty() && str_.back() == sep)
-    str_.pop_back();
-  // Replace multiple consecutive separators with a single one.
-  static char sep2[] = {sep, sep};
-  auto i = str_.find(sep2, 0, sizeof(sep2));
-  if (i != std::string::npos) {
-    auto j = str_.find_first_not_of(sep, i);
-    str_.replace(i, j - i, 1, sep);
-  }
-}
-
 bool operator==(const topic& lhs, const topic& rhs) {
   return lhs.string() == rhs.string();
 }
diff --git a/tests/cpp/topic.cc b/tests/cpp/topic.cc
index f412b8c8..ccc49d45 100644
--- a/tests/cpp/topic.cc
+++ b/tests/cpp/topic.cc
@@ -11,17 +11,6 @@ auto sep = std::string{topic::sep};
 
 } // namespace <anonymous>
 
-TEST(cleaning) {
-  auto sep3 = sep + sep + sep;
-  CHECK_EQUAL(topic{sep3}, ""_t);
-  auto t = topic{"foo" + sep3};
-  CHECK_EQUAL(t, "foo");
-  t = sep3 + "foo";
-  CHECK_EQUAL(t, sep + "foo");
-  t = sep3 + "foo" + sep3;
-  CHECK_EQUAL(t, sep + "foo");
-}
-
 TEST(concatenation) {
   topic t;
   t /= "foo";
diff --git a/tests/python/topic.py b/tests/python/topic.py
index a9bc11b2..f408a77a 100644
--- a/tests/python/topic.py
+++ b/tests/python/topic.py
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ def test_append(self):
         t3 = t1 / t2
         t2 /= t1
 
-        self.assertEqual(t3.string(), "/a/b/c")
+        self.assertEqual(t3.string(), "/a//b/c")
         self.assertEqual(t2.string(), "/b/c/a")
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':