diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index 3ebe5084773..7f2759bd1b9 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -1,6 +1,4 @@
-## Version 1.17.25+dev
- ### Add-ons client
- ### Add-ons server
+## Version 1.17.26
  ### Campaigns
    * Eastern Invasion
      * Many minor bugfixes
@@ -14,7 +12,6 @@
      * Adjust Fighter unit line for easier early leveling and more late game staying power.
    * World Conquest
      * Fix the Bezoar artifact (issue #6513)
- ### Editor
  ### Multiplayer
    * Assume that all players need a copy of an add-on, by defaulting `require_modification`/`require_campaign` to `yes` (PR #8135)
  ### Lua API
@@ -23,7 +20,6 @@
    * Add CMake and SCons options to use an already installed copy of Lua 5.4 (PR #8234)
      * The system copy of Lua must be compiled as C++ rather than C, as Wesnoth uses C++ exceptions.
      * Windows requires a compile-time change to Lua, so must use the in-tree Lua submodule.
- ### Terrain
  ### Translations
    * New translation: Bengali
    * Updated translations: Arabic, British English, Czech, Finnish, French
diff --git a/data/tools/wesnoth/version.py b/data/tools/wesnoth/version.py
index f58c83e71ae..fb293a8a838 100755
--- a/data/tools/wesnoth/version.py
+++ b/data/tools/wesnoth/version.py
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 major = 1
 minor = 17
-release = 25
-dev_suffix = "+dev" # either use "+dev", "-dev", "" (empty string) or None
+release = 26
+dev_suffix = "" # either use "+dev", "-dev", "" (empty string) or None
 
 as_string = "{}.{}.{}{}".format(major,
                                 minor,
diff --git a/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile b/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
index 7ade66e040b..7fabaafa122 100644
--- a/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
+++ b/doc/doxygen/Doxyfile
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ PROJECT_NAME           = "The Battle for Wesnoth"
 # could be handy for archiving the generated documentation or if some version
 # control system is used.
 
-PROJECT_NUMBER         = 1.17.25+dev
+PROJECT_NUMBER         = 1.17.26
 
 # Using the PROJECT_BRIEF tag one can provide an optional one line description
 # for a project that appears at the top of each page and should give viewer a
diff --git a/projectfiles/Xcode/Info.plist b/projectfiles/Xcode/Info.plist
index 719602057c2..ba4c1616139 100644
--- a/projectfiles/Xcode/Info.plist
+++ b/projectfiles/Xcode/Info.plist
@@ -19,11 +19,11 @@
 	<key>CFBundlePackageType</key>
 	<string>APPL</string>
 	<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
-	<string>1.17.25</string>
+	<string>1.17.26</string>
 	<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
 	<string>????</string>
 	<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
-	<string>1.17.25</string>
+	<string>1.17.26</string>
 	<key>LSApplicationCategoryType</key>
 	<string>public.app-category.strategy-games</string>
 	<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
diff --git a/src/wesconfig.h b/src/wesconfig.h
index 8fbc167df83..1c3b0059b99 100644
--- a/src/wesconfig.h
+++ b/src/wesconfig.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
   #undef VERSION
 #endif
 
-#define VERSION "1.17.25+dev"
+#define VERSION "1.17.26"
 
 // Used for the Windows executables' version info resource.
 #define RC_VERSION_MAJOR        1