diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 8df671c98..037f067ee 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Description: Interface to the 'libgit2' library, which is a pure C
     implementation of the 'Git' core methods. Provides access to 'Git'
     repositories to extract data and running some basic 'Git'
     commands.
-Version: 0.25.2.9008
+Version: 0.26.0
 License: GPL-2
 Copyright: See COPYRIGHTS file.
 URL: https://github.com/ropensci/git2r
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 527ea1fd0..91f895507 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-git2r 0.25.2.9008
------------------
+git2r 0.26.0
+------------
 
 IMPROVEMENTS