diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 745f295f7..5e5215cf0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,24 @@
+3.26.0
+======
+* Misc. bug fixes [Ray, Michael, Jonas; #786332] #786783, #786886, #786868]
+
+Contributors:
+  Jonas Ådahl, Michael Catanzaro, Sebastian Keller, Ray Strode
+
+Translations:
+  Daniel Mustieles [es], Fran Dieguez [gl], Baurzhan Muftakhidinov [kk],
+  Marek Cernocky [cs], Andika Triwidada [id], Aurimas Černius [lt],
+  Piotr Drąg [pl], Trần Ngọc Quân [vi], Jordi Mas [ca], Fabio Tomat [fur],
+  gogo [hr], Dušan Kazik [sk], Piotr Drąg [ne], Emin Tufan Çetin [tr],
+  Ask Hjorth Larsen [da], Cheng-Chia Tseng [zh_TW], Rūdolfs Mazurs [lv],
+  Balázs Meskó [hu], Matej Urbančič [sl], Jiri Grönroos [fi],
+  Милош Поповић [sr], Милош Поповић [sr@latin], Rafael Fontenelle [pt_BR],
+  Wolfgang Stöggl [de], Milo Casagrande [it], hanniedu [nl],
+  Yuras Shumovich [be], Changwoo Ryu [ko], Alain Lojewski [fr],
+  Alexander Shopov [bg], Daniel Korostil [uk], Kris Thomsen [da],
+  A S Alam [pa], Sebastian Rasmussen [sv], Inaki Larranaga Murgoitio [eu],
+  Jiro Matsuzawa [ja]
+
 3.25.91
 =======
 * Open context menu of highlighted search result on Shift+F10 [Florian; #675315]
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 11df82c4e..4c1f5c63b 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 project('gnome-shell', 'c',
-  version: '3.25.91',
+  version: '3.26.0',
   meson_version: '>= 0.41.0',
   license: 'GPLv2+'
 )
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gi_req = '>= 1.49.1'
 gjs_req = '>= 1.47.0'
 gtk_req = '>= 3.15.0'
 json_glib_req = '>= 0.13.2'
-mutter_req = '>= 3.25.91'
+mutter_req = '>= 3.26.0'
 polkit_req = '>= 0.100'
 schemas_req = '>= 3.21.3'
 startup_req = '>= 0.11'