diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f6391bdc..70f719f0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,13 @@
 
+# 0.26.0 - 2025-08-22
+
+* [#249](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/249) docs: fix changelog links
+* [#243](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/243) pset: blind: return ephemeral private key
+* [#242](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/242) Edoc: fix CheckHrpstring::new reference
+* [#236](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/236) chore: fix some minor issues in comments
+* [#230](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/230) ci: add lockfile and use rust-bitcoin-maintainer-tools CI setup
+* [#228](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/228) Enable a ton of pedantic clippy lints
+
 # 0.25.2 - 2025-04-18
 
 * [#226](https://github.com/ElementsProject/rust-elements/pull/226) elip102: rename from elip101
diff --git a/Cargo-latest.lock b/Cargo-latest.lock
index 66f6c459..5f9503a1 100644
--- a/Cargo-latest.lock
+++ b/Cargo-latest.lock
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ checksum = "48c757948c5ede0e46177b7add2e67155f70e33c07fea8284df6576da70b3719"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "elements"
-version = "0.25.2"
+version = "0.26.0"
 dependencies = [
  "bech32",
  "bincode",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f6b8444a..31614b4e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "elements"
-version = "0.25.2"
+version = "0.26.0"
 authors = ["Andrew Poelstra <apoelstra@blockstream.com>"]
 description = "Library with support for de/serialization, parsing and executing on data structures and network messages related to Elements"
 license = "CC0-1.0"