diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 61b09258a..1d6389b4a 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ Baruch Siach
 Bastien Nocera
 Bei Zhang
 Bence Csokas
+Benjamin Berg
 Benjamin Dobell
 Bohdan Tymkiv
 Brent Rector
@@ -61,6 +62,7 @@ Dmitry Zakablukov
 Doug Johnston
 Evan Hunter
 Evan Miller
+Fabrice Fontaine
 Federico Manzan
 Felipe Balbi
 Florian Albrechtskirchinger
@@ -100,6 +102,7 @@ Juan Cruz Viotti
 Julian Scheel
 Justin Bischoff
 Karsten Koenig
+Keith Ahluwalia
 Kenjiro Tsuji
 Kimura Masaru
 Konrad Rzepecki
@@ -119,6 +122,7 @@ Markus Heidelberg
 Martin Ettl
 Martin Koegler
 Martin Thierer
+Mathias Hjärtström
 Matthew Stapleton
 Matthias Bolte
 Michael Dickens
@@ -144,6 +148,7 @@ Pino Toscano
 Rob Walker
 Romain Vimont
 Roman Kalashnikov
+Ryan Hileman
 Ryan Schmidt
 Saleem Rashid
 Sameeh Jubran
@@ -179,6 +184,7 @@ Vladimir Beloborodov
 William Orr
 William Skellenger
 Xiaofan Chen
+Yegor Yefremov
 Zhiqiang Liu
 Zoltán Kovács
 Сергей Валерьевич
@@ -188,5 +194,6 @@ jonner
 orbitcowboy
 parafin
 RipleyTom
+Seneral
 saur0n
 winterrace
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index b443e3051..d7f110cff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 For detailed information about the changes below, please see the git log or
 visit: http://log.libusb.info
 
+2022-03-26: v1.0.26-rc1
+* Fix regression with transfer free's after closing device
+* Fix regression with destroyed context if API is misused
+* Workaround for applications using missing default context
+* Fix hotplog enumeration regression
+* Fix Windows isochronous transfer regression since 1.0.24
+* Build fixes for various platforms and configurations
+* Fix Windows HID multi-interface product string retrieval
+* Add interface bound checking for broken devices
+* Add umockdev tests on Linux
+
 2022-01-31: v1.0.25
 * Linux: Fix regression with some particular devices
 * Linux: Fix regression with libusb_handle_events_timeout_completed()
diff --git a/libusb/version.h b/libusb/version.h
index 1fe994657..788820847 100644
--- a/libusb/version.h
+++ b/libusb/version.h
@@ -7,12 +7,12 @@
 #define LIBUSB_MINOR 0
 #endif
 #ifndef LIBUSB_MICRO
-#define LIBUSB_MICRO 25
+#define LIBUSB_MICRO 26
 #endif
 #ifndef LIBUSB_NANO
 #define LIBUSB_NANO 0
 #endif
 /* LIBUSB_RC is the release candidate suffix. Should normally be empty. */
 #ifndef LIBUSB_RC
-#define LIBUSB_RC ""
+#define LIBUSB_RC "-rc1"
 #endif
diff --git a/libusb/version_nano.h b/libusb/version_nano.h
index aaac77725..46b5e0153 100644
--- a/libusb/version_nano.h
+++ b/libusb/version_nano.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define LIBUSB_NANO 11716
+#define LIBUSB_NANO 11717