version v26.1.0

Author: tersec

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+2025-01-29 v26.1.0
+===================
+
+The Nimbus consensus client `v26.1.0` is a `low-urgency` release with improved validator client stability.
+
+### Improvements
+
+- Support alternate fallback mode for multiple beacon nodes in the validator client:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7747
+
+### Fixes
+
+- Fix a validator client crash with offline or unavailable beacon nodes:
+  https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2/pull/7862
+
 2025-12-18 v25.12.0
 ===================
 

beacon_chain/version.nim

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 import std/[os, strutils], ./buildinfo
 
 const
-  versionMajor* = 25
-  versionMinor* = 12
+  versionMajor* = 26
+  versionMinor* = 1
   versionBuild* = 0
 
   versionBlob* = "stateofus" # Single word - ends up in the default graffiti