diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5f249da40..7f681a9aa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+Clutter 1.26.0                                                       2016-03-21
+===============================================================================
+
+  • List of changes since Clutter 1.25.6
+
+    - Avoid spamming accessibility state changes in clones
+    Clones of unmapped actors will cause a temporary mapping of their source,
+    which will result in spurious accessibility events.
+
+    - Ignore GDK deprecation compiler warnings
+
+    - Resync build configuration for Windows
+
+    - Translation updates
+    Serbian, Swedish, Catalan, Occitan, Greek, Latvian, Russian, Danish
+
+  • List of bugs fixed since Clutter 1.25.6
+
+    #756371 - Accessible event spam in Overview
+
+Many thanks to:
+
+  Jordi Mas, Anders Jonsson, Ask Hjorth Larsen, Chun-wei Fan, Cédric Valmary,
+  Efstathios Iosifidis, Rūdolfs Mazurs, Stas Solovey, Марко Костић,
+  Мирослав Николић
+
 Clutter 1.25.6                                                       2016-02-18
 ===============================================================================
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index ecf269d3c..091d299c3 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
 # - increase clutter_micro_version to the next odd number
 # - increase clutter_interface_version to the next odd number
 m4_define([clutter_major_version], [1])
-m4_define([clutter_minor_version], [25])
-m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [7])
+m4_define([clutter_minor_version], [26])
+m4_define([clutter_micro_version], [0])
 
 # • for stable releases: increase the interface age by 1 for each release;
 #   if the API changes, set to 0. interface_age and binary_age are used to