chore: release for v0.26.1 (#665)

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Signed-off-by: Gergely Brautigam <[email protected]>

Author: Skarlso

docs/release_notes/v0.26.1.md

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+# Release v0.26.1
+
+- Move to version 3 of registry, addressing SAP compliance concerns. (#664)
+- Registry Deployment template now gets image info from values.yaml (#660)
+- chore: refactoring the signing test to make it more robust (#657)
+- fix: update the used repository name (#656)
+- fix: add extra identity to the resource lookup reference (#655)
+- adjust GHA to trigger on PR and not pull\_request\_target (#653)
+- Enable e2e GHA workflow to be executed manually (#650)
+
+## 🐛 Bug Fixes
+
+- update slack GHA (#651)
+
+## 🧰 Maintenance
+
+<details>
+<summary>7 changes</summary>
+
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 5 updates (#661)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 2 updates (#654)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 7 updates (#648)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 5 updates (#646)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 4 updates (#643)
+- chore(deps): bump the go\_modules group across 1 directory with 4 updates (#641)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group across 1 directory with 7 updates (#637)
+</details>
+
+## ⬆️ Dependencies
+
+<details>
+<summary>7 changes</summary>
+
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 5 updates (#661)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 2 updates (#654)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 7 updates (#648)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 5 updates (#646)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group with 4 updates (#643)
+- chore(deps): bump the go\_modules group across 1 directory with 4 updates (#641)
+- chore(deps): bump the go group across 1 directory with 7 updates (#637)
+</details>

pkg/version/release.go

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 package version
 
 // ReleaseVersion is the version number in semver format "vX.Y.Z", prefixed with "v".
-var ReleaseVersion = "v0.26.0"
+var ReleaseVersion = "v0.26.1"
 
 // ReleaseCandidate is the release candidate ID in format "rc.X", which will be appended to the release version.
 var ReleaseCandidate = "rc.1"