Merge pull request #9066 from cthorn42/packaging/7.x/manual_version_bump

(maint) Manually bump next version for puppet 7.26.0

Author: joshcooper

.gemspec

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name = "puppet"
-  version = "7.25.0"
+  version = "7.26.0"
   mdata = version.match(/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/)
   s.version = mdata ? mdata[1] : version
 

lib/puppet/version.rb

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Raketasks and such to set the version based on the output of `git describe`
 
 module Puppet
-  PUPPETVERSION = '7.25.0'
+  PUPPETVERSION = '7.26.0'
 
   ##
   # version is a public API method intended to always provide a fast and