diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5d308c1c45..34d22728d3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 # Minikube Release Notes
 
+# Version 0.26.1 - 4/17/2018
+* Mark hyperkit, kvm2 and none drivers as supported [#2734](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2723) and [#2728](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2728)
+* Bug fix for hyper-v driver [#2719](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2719)
+* Add back CRI preflight ignore [#2723](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2723)
+* Fix preflight checks on clusters <1.9 [#2721](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2721)
+
 # Version 0.26.0 - 4/3/2018
 * Update to Kubernetes 1.10 [#2657](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2657)
 * Update Nginx Ingress Plugin to 0.12.0 [#2644](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/2644)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cbd5df2b0d..6e298113e8 100755
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 # Bump these on release
 VERSION_MAJOR ?= 0
 VERSION_MINOR ?= 26
-VERSION_BUILD ?= 0
+VERSION_BUILD ?= 1
 VERSION ?= v$(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR).$(VERSION_BUILD)
 DEB_VERSION ?= $(VERSION_MAJOR).$(VERSION_MINOR)-$(VERSION_BUILD)
 INSTALL_SIZE ?= $(shell du out/minikube-windows-amd64.exe | cut -f1)