diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2757441e8..830467e4d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+## 1.26.0
+
+### Features
+- When a polled function returns an error, keep track of the actual and report on the matcher state of the last non-errored actual [21f3090]
+- improve eventually failure message output [c530fb3]
+
+### Fixes
+- fix several documentation spelling issues [e2eff1f]
+
+
 ## 1.25.0
 
 ### Features
diff --git a/gomega_dsl.go b/gomega_dsl.go
index 3076b277b..93d33c137 100644
--- a/gomega_dsl.go
+++ b/gomega_dsl.go
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/onsi/gomega/types"
 )
 
-const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.25.0"
+const GOMEGA_VERSION = "1.26.0"
 
 const nilGomegaPanic = `You are trying to make an assertion, but haven't registered Gomega's fail handler.
 If you're using Ginkgo then you probably forgot to put your assertion in an It().