Release 4.26.0
diff --git a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
index 6685791..ce024eb 100644
--- a/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/fontTools/__init__.py
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
-version = __version__ = "4.25.3.dev0"
+version = __version__ = "4.26.0"
__all__ = ["version", "log", "configLogger"]
diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index abed27a..4f62d17 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+4.26.0 (released 2021-08-03)
+----------------------------
+
- [xmlWriter] Default to ``"\n"`` for ``newlinestr`` instead of platform-specific
``os.linesep`` (#2384).
- [otData] Define COLRv1 ClipList and ClipBox (#2379).
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index f192a9d..41b5925 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
[bumpversion]
-current_version = 4.25.3.dev0
+current_version = 4.26.0
commit = True
tag = False
tag_name = {new_version}
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 79bafc9..5ac4838 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@
setup_params = dict(
name="fonttools",
- version="4.25.3.dev0",
+ version="4.26.0",
description="Tools to manipulate font files",
author="Just van Rossum",
author_email="just@letterror.com",
