diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 821f9a5d4..8123fe75a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and **Merged pull requests**. Critical items to know are:
 The versions coincide with releases on pip. Only major versions will be released as tags on Github.
 
 ## [0.0.x](https://github.com/singularityhub/singularity-hpc/tree/main) (0.0.x)
+ - unpin yaml dependency (0.1.26)
  - Change format of config command output to only show setting values, not keys, for parseability (0.1.25)
  - Allow custom location for wrapper scripts (0.1.24)
  - Labels with newlines need additional parsing (0.1.23)
diff --git a/shpc/defaults.py b/shpc/defaults.py
index 007bd34ac..a190eded3 100644
--- a/shpc/defaults.py
+++ b/shpc/defaults.py
@@ -18,7 +18,13 @@
 )
 
 # variables in settings that allow environment variable expansion
-allowed_envars = ["container_base", "module_base", "views_base", "wrapper_base", "registry"]
+allowed_envars = [
+    "container_base",
+    "module_base",
+    "views_base",
+    "wrapper_base",
+    "registry",
+]
 
 # The default GitHub registry with recipes (for docgen)
 github_url = "https://github.com/singularityhub/shpc-registry"
diff --git a/shpc/version.py b/shpc/version.py
index 25c71bdfa..237e405c6 100644
--- a/shpc/version.py
+++ b/shpc/version.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 __copyright__ = "Copyright 2021-2023, Vanessa Sochat"
 __license__ = "MPL 2.0"
 
-__version__ = "0.1.25"
+__version__ = "0.1.26"
 AUTHOR = "Vanessa Sochat"
 EMAIL = "vsoch@users.noreply.github.com"
 NAME = "singularity-hpc"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     ("spython", {"min_version": "0.2.0"}),
     ("Jinja2", {"min_version": None}),
     ("jsonschema", {"min_version": None}),
-    ("ruamel.yaml", {"max_version": "0.17.21"}),
+    ("ruamel.yaml", {"min_version": None}),
     ("requests", {"min_version": None}),
 )