diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index aed831ce..9afdc6d1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
 
+## [0.26.0](https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/python-benedict/releases/tag/0.26.0) - 2022-10-09
+-   Add `xls` files (`.xlsx`, `.xlsm`, `.xls`) support (read-only). #70 (#122)
+-   Drop `Python 3.6` support. (#123)
+
 ## [0.25.4](https://github.com/fabiocaccamo/python-benedict/releases/tag/0.25.4) - 2022-09-06
 -   Fix `toml` encoding circular reference error. #110
 
diff --git a/benedict/metadata.py b/benedict/metadata.py
index 66c631c0..9251851d 100644
--- a/benedict/metadata.py
+++ b/benedict/metadata.py
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 __copyright__ = "Copyright (c) 2019-present - Fabio Caccamo"
 __description__ = (
     "python-benedict is a dict subclass with keylist/keypath support, normalized I/O"
-    " operations (base64, csv, ini, json, pickle, plist, query-string, toml, xml, yaml)"
+    " operations (base64, csv, ini, json, pickle, plist, query-string, toml, xls, xml, yaml)"
     " and many utilities... for humans, obviously."
 )
 __email__ = "fabio.caccamo@gmail.com"
 __license__ = "MIT"
 __title__ = "benedict"
-__version__ = "0.25.4"
+__version__ = "0.26.0"