diff --git a/.bumpversion.cfg b/.bumpversion.cfg
index 27d4fcdf1..ac0b9e7dc 100644
--- a/.bumpversion.cfg
+++ b/.bumpversion.cfg
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [bumpversion]
-current_version = 0.25.0
+current_version = 0.26.0
 commit = True
 tag = True
 
diff --git a/janitor/__init__.py b/janitor/__init__.py
index 3aa8b5cde..9fa7916a6 100644
--- a/janitor/__init__.py
+++ b/janitor/__init__.py
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@ def get_features_targets(*args, **kwargs):
     return _get_features_targets(*args, **kwargs)
 
 
-__version__ = "0.25.0"
+__version__ = "0.26.0"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 90ea680eb..116b7fc83 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def generate_long_description() -> str:
 
 setup(
     name="pyjanitor",
-    version="0.25.0",
+    version="0.26.0",
     description="Tools for cleaning pandas DataFrames",
     author="pyjanitor devs",
     author_email="ericmajinglong@gmail.com",