diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2af3a25..c1eff90 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1 +1 @@
-/kronosnet-1.25.tar.xz
+/kronosnet-1.26.tar.xz
diff --git a/kronosnet.spec b/kronosnet.spec
index e408c72..335a760 100644
--- a/kronosnet.spec
+++ b/kronosnet.spec
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@
 
 Name: kronosnet
 Summary: Multipoint-to-Multipoint VPN daemon
-Version: 1.25
-Release: 3%{?dist}
+Version: 1.26
+Release: 1%{?dist}
 License: GPL-2.0-or-later AND LGPL-2.1-or-later
 URL: https://kronosnet.org
 Source0: https://kronosnet.org/releases/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
@@ -436,6 +436,12 @@ Requires: libnozzle1%{_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
 %endif
 
 %changelog
+* Mon Jul 10 2023 Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com> - 1.26-1
+- New upstream release
+- Improve TX performance and use less CPU
+- minor other improvements
+- Build system update
+
 * Tue Jun 06 2023 Jan Friesse <jfriesse@redhat.com> - 1.25-3
 - migrated to SPDX license
 
diff --git a/sources b/sources
index 49a161a..d52c4ba 100644
--- a/sources
+++ b/sources
@@ -1 +1 @@
-SHA512 (kronosnet-1.25.tar.xz) = 03e0fd69e66ccefce778e02edfed253b201c325ca4d94e687f468395f0a05cbe48f658c6cb98e7eb2d067ee04c4d89a34ac8c213cce38698593a7ff5ba93416b
+SHA512 (kronosnet-1.26.tar.xz) = c9f1721fba30cd3ac0edac29d19f15e9bab355174e151720a1df224aa91315c23034de2b59e5c569733122362e9c31641d617ab81606a919f6f9facf691c62fd