diff --git a/avocado.spec b/avocado.spec
index 3d8fc74b59..d4e854d5ef 100644
--- a/avocado.spec
+++ b/avocado.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Summary: Avocado Test Framework
 Name: avocado
-Version: 0.25.0
-Release: 2%{?dist}
+Version: 0.26.0
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPLv2
 Group: Development/Tools
 URL: http://avocado-framework.github.io/
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ examples of how to write tests on your own.
 %{_datadir}/avocado/wrappers
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 6 2015 Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com> - 0.26.0-1
+- New upstream release 0.26.0
+
 * Tue Jun 16 2015 Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues <lmr@redhat.com> - 0.25.0-2
 - Fix spec bug with BuildRequires on EPEL6
 
diff --git a/avocado/core/version.py b/avocado/core/version.py
index 48397352de..10b0b01346 100755
--- a/avocado/core/version.py
+++ b/avocado/core/version.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 
 MAJOR = 0
-MINOR = 25
+MINOR = 26
 RELEASE = 0
 
 VERSION = "%s.%s.%s" % (MAJOR, MINOR, RELEASE)
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 4d42b474c9..ff15611e25 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = avocado
-version = 0.25.0
+version = 0.26.0
 summary = Avocado Test Framework
 description-file =
     README.rst