diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ffeb17c..dc69b04 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ All notable changes to `ebus-sdk` are recorded here. Format follows [Keep a Chan
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-Adopts [`ebus-service-discovery`](https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-service-discovery) 0.5.0 for mDNS ([#100](https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/issues/100)).
+## [0.26.0] — 2026-10-09
+
+Adopts [`ebus-service-discovery`](https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-service-discovery) 0.5.0 for mDNS ([#100](https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/issues/100)); requires ebus-mqtt-client 0.8.0.
 
 ### Added
 
@@ -468,7 +470,8 @@ The 0.2.0 release introduces first-class parent/child device trees on both the d
 
 Initial public release on PyPI. It predates this repo's tagging convention (the earliest tag is `v0.1.4`), so there is no `v0.1.2` tag to read; the published artifact on PyPI is the record of the surface that shipped.
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/compare/v0.25.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/compare/v0.26.0...HEAD
+[0.26.0]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.26.0
 [0.25.0]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.25.0
 [0.24.0]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.24.0
 [0.23.1]: https://github.com/electrification-bus/python-sdk/releases/tag/v0.23.1
diff --git a/src/ebus_sdk/__init__.py b/src/ebus_sdk/__init__.py
index b3470ca..36b2298 100644
--- a/src/ebus_sdk/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ebus_sdk/__init__.py
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
 # Structural types for a caller-supplied MQTT client
 from ebus_sdk.transport import MqttControllerTransport, MqttDeviceTransport, MqttTransport
 
-__version__ = "0.25.0"
+__version__ = "0.26.0"
 
 __all__ = [
     # Homie classes