diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
index 31ba5bf6..15d7afb7 100644
--- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -42,10 +42,6 @@ You deserve to add your details to the [list of contributors](https://github.com
 
 Any change that modifies the existing public API should be added to the relevant work-in-progress branch for inclusion in the next major release.
 
-| Release | WIP branch |
-| ------: | :--------- |
-| v0.26.0 | zoom       |
-
 Please squash your changes into a single commit using a command like `git rebase -i upstream/<wip-branch>`.
 
 ### Add a new public method
diff --git a/docs/changelog.md b/docs/changelog.md
index 7a75bb77..80f01b3d 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.md
+++ b/docs/changelog.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 Requires libvips v8.10.0
 
-### v0.26.1 - TBD
+### v0.26.1 - 20th September 2020
 
 * Ensure correct pageHeight when verifying multi-page image dimensions.
   [#2343](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/pull/2343)
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 2cfc2f06..3de7c4ff 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="72x72" href="https://pixel.plumbing/px/72x72/sharp-logo.svg">
   <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="https://pixel.plumbing/px/57x57/sharp-logo.svg">
   <link rel="author" href="/humans.txt" type="text/plain">
-  <link rel="preload" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lovell/sharp@v0.26.0/docs/README.md" as="fetch" type="text/markdown" crossorigin>
+  <link rel="preload" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lovell/sharp@v0.26.1/docs/README.md" as="fetch" type="text/markdown" crossorigin>
   <link rel="preload" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lovell/sharp@master/docs/image/sharp-logo.svg" as="image" type="image/svg+xml" crossorigin>
   <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://pixel.plumbing">
   <link rel="dns-prefetch" href="https://www.google-analytics.com">
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
         docuteApiTitlePlugin,
         docuteApiSearchPlugin
       ],
-      sourcePath: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lovell/sharp@v0.26.0/docs',
+      sourcePath: 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/lovell/sharp@v0.26.1/docs',
       nav: [
         {
           title: 'Funding',
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c39032d4..a2c5003f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "sharp",
   "description": "High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP and TIFF images",
-  "version": "0.26.0",
+  "version": "0.26.1",
   "author": "Lovell Fuller <npm@lovell.info>",
   "homepage": "https://github.com/lovell/sharp",
   "contributors": [
diff --git a/test/unit/io.js b/test/unit/io.js
index 0e1a3f78..a0d798a6 100644
--- a/test/unit/io.js
+++ b/test/unit/io.js
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ describe('Input/output', function () {
   });
 
   it('Fail when input is empty Buffer', function (done) {
-    if (sharp.format.magick.input.buffer) return this.skip(); // can be removed with libvips 8.10.0+
+    if (sharp.format.magick.input.buffer) return this.skip(); // can be removed with libvips 8.10.1+
     sharp(Buffer.alloc(0)).toBuffer().then(function () {
       assert(false);
       done();