diff --git a/rear.spec b/rear.spec
index bed2830..49eaa0a 100644
--- a/rear.spec
+++ b/rear.spec
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Name: rear
 Version: 2.6
-Release: 28%{?dist}
+Release: 29%{?dist}
 Summary: Relax-and-Recover is a Linux disaster recovery and system migration tool
 URL: http://relax-and-recover.org/
 License: GPLv3
@@ -325,6 +325,15 @@ install -m 0644 %{SOURCE3} %{buildroot}%{_docdir}/%{name}/
 
 #-- CHANGELOG -----------------------------------------------------------------#
 %changelog
+* Thu Aug 13 2026 Lukáš Zaoral <lzaoral@redhat.com> - 2.6-29
+- fix EXCLUDE_COMPONENTS being ignored for partition tables unsupported by ReaR
+- mark ISO filesystem labels as write protected
+- add REAR_INITRD_OVERLAY to split initramfs into core + SquashFS overlay
+- fix unsuccessful unmount of efiboot.img resulting in a corrupted ESP
+- fix incorrect partition naming when migrating devices
+  - also fix OS_MASTER_VERSION for RHEL 8+
+- include dmsetup and dmeventd unconditionally
+
 * Thu Jan 29 2026 Lukáš Zaoral <lzaoral@redhat.com> - 2.6-28
 - use git to apply downstream patches
 - copy an sshd helper to the rescue ramdisk (RHEL-146037)