diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index a264524f..1917ea04 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Latest Changes
 
+## 0.0.26
+
 ### Fixes
 
 * 🐛 Fix attribute handling in `model_dump` for compatibility with the latest Pydantic versions. PR [#1595](https://github.com/fastapi/sqlmodel/pull/1595) by [@spazm](https://github.com/spazm).
diff --git a/sqlmodel/__init__.py b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
index aec97b7e..ee0d40f7 100644
--- a/sqlmodel/__init__.py
+++ b/sqlmodel/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-__version__ = "0.0.25"
+__version__ = "0.0.26"
 
 # Re-export from SQLAlchemy
 from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine as create_engine