diff --git a/Changelog.txt b/Changelog.txt
index c0e887889c..9afe4651b5 100644
--- a/Changelog.txt
+++ b/Changelog.txt
@@ -23,6 +23,31 @@
 # - title by author
 # }}}
 
+{{{ 5.26.0 2021-08-27
+
+:: new features
+
+- [1941013] Dark color scheme: Use a darker blue for highlighted items
+
+:: bug fixes
+
+- Content server book viewer: Show a message when a search finds no matches
+
+- MOBI Output: Fix JPEG images without any JFIF metadata not being rendered on the Kindle
+
+- [1939908] Comic input: Fix single color images having their colors changed by normalization
+
+- [1940005] E-book viewer: Fix creating multiple highlights in a single paragraph that also contains some extra text formatting at the start causing the second and subsequent highlights to malfunction
+
+- [1939912] Edit book: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke the options in the Remove unused CSS dialog
+
+:: improved recipes
+- Boston Globe
+
+:: new recipes
+- NYTimes Cooking by gourav
+}}}
+
 {{{ 5.25.0 2021-08-13
 
 :: new features
diff --git a/src/calibre/constants.py b/src/calibre/constants.py
index bf62861135..13807011e7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/constants.py
+++ b/src/calibre/constants.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ from polyglot.builtins import map, unicode_type, environ_item, hasenv, getenv
 import sys, locale, codecs, os, collections, collections.abc
 
 __appname__   = 'calibre'
-numeric_version = (5, 25, 0)
+numeric_version = (5, 26, 0)
 __version__   = '.'.join(map(unicode_type, numeric_version))
 git_version   = None
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"