[VOL-2356] removed Panic loglevel and added a method to convert loglevel from string to int

Change-Id: Idce562fd3da49004878ddf7dec5680c19e58b7bc
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index cd39aac..ef0bec0 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.2.26
+2.2.27