diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 14b9f0072aa..0fcc9475ac2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 1.26.0 (TBD)
+## 1.26.0 (2024-12-05)
 
 ### Snowpark Python API Updates
 
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@
   dynamic pivot is now generally available.
 - Fixed a bug in `session.read.options` where `False` Boolean values were incorrectly parsed as `True` in the generated file format.
 
-
 #### Dependency Updates
 
 - Added a runtime dependency on `python-dateutil`.
@@ -71,24 +70,15 @@
 - Added partial support for the dataframe interchange protocol method
   `DataFrame.__dataframe__()`.
 
-#### Dependency Updates
-
 #### Bug Fixes
-- Fixed a bug in `df.loc` where setting a single column from a series results in unexpected `None` values.
 
+- Fixed a bug in `df.loc` where setting a single column from a series results in unexpected `None` values.
 
 #### Improvements
+
 - Use UNPIVOT INCLUDE NULLS for unpivot operations in pandas instead of sentinel values.
 - Improved documentation for pd.read_excel.
 
-### Snowpark Local Testing Updates
-
-#### New Features
-
-
-#### Bug Fixes
-
-
 ## 1.25.0 (2024-11-14)
 
 ### Snowpark Python API Updates
diff --git a/recipe/meta.yaml b/recipe/meta.yaml
index 61ecf5ce30f..467593287a3 100644
--- a/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {% set name = "snowflake-snowpark-python" %}
-{% set version = "1.25.0" %}
+{% set version = "1.26.0" %}
 {% set noarch_build = (os.environ.get('SNOWFLAKE_SNOWPARK_PYTHON_NOARCH_BUILD', 'false')) == 'true' %}
 
 package:
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ requirements:
   run:
     - python
     - cloudpickle >=1.6.0,<=2.2.1,!=2.1.0,!=2.2.0
-    - snowflake-connector-python >=3.10.0,<4.0.0
+    - snowflake-connector-python >=3.12.0,<4.0.0
     - typing-extensions >=4.1.0,<5.0.0
     # need to pin libffi because of problems in cryptography.
     # This might no longer hold true but keep it just to avoid it from biting us again
diff --git a/src/snowflake/snowpark/version.py b/src/snowflake/snowpark/version.py
index ce5e9b3d25e..10a02cb3e2a 100644
--- a/src/snowflake/snowpark/version.py
+++ b/src/snowflake/snowpark/version.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 #
 
 # Update this for the versions
-VERSION = (1, 25, 0)
+VERSION = (1, 26, 0)