diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index d06fb15e8..158f1f0dc 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Type: Package
 Package: rticles
 Title: Article Formats for R Markdown
-Version: 0.25.5
+Version: 0.26
 Authors@R: c(
     person("JJ", "Allaire", , "jj@posit.co", role = "aut"),
     person("Yihui", "Xie", , "xie@yihui.name", role = "aut",
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b43f413b3..2df0eaa8e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# rticles (development version)
+# rticles 0.26
 
 ## MAJOR CHANGES