diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 08a760c3..0d3cfdba 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -11,6 +11,13 @@
 ---
 ## (current master)
 
+## 0.26.1
+- handle `Char`s as input data
+- fix html saving for Plotly
+- expand ~ in paths on UNIX systems
+- convertToAnyVector clean-up
+- fix color_palette grouping issue
+
 ## 0.26.0
 - use FFMPEG.jl
 - add missing method for convertToAnyVector
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index d61e259e..0b5fdd88 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 name = "Plots"
 uuid = "91a5bcdd-55d7-5caf-9e0b-520d859cae80"
 author = ["Tom Breloff (@tbreloff)"]
-version = "0.26.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 
 [deps]
 Base64 = "2a0f44e3-6c83-55bd-87e4-b1978d98bd5f"
diff --git a/src/Plots.jl b/src/Plots.jl
index 4fd536b5..54d34615 100644
--- a/src/Plots.jl
+++ b/src/Plots.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 module Plots
 
-_current_plots_version = v"0.25.0"
+_current_plots_version = v"0.26.1"
 
 using Reexport