diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a0c90ca..e406410 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented here.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.6.0] - 2026-05-07
+
 ### Fixed
 - Windows: non-ASCII characters (em dash, en dash, curly quotes,
   non-Latin scripts, etc.) are no longer corrupted on
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 5cc6946..1fa8e7f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "mcp-clipboard"
-version = "2.5.1"
+version = "2.6.0"
 description = "MCP server that reads and writes the system clipboard — tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images, and more."
 readme = "README.md"
 license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
diff --git a/server.json b/server.json
index 8868ca2..d32c536 100644
--- a/server.json
+++ b/server.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "name": "io.github.cmeans/mcp-clipboard",
   "title": "Clipboard",
   "description": "Read and write the system clipboard — tables, text, code, JSON, URLs, images, and more.",
-  "version": "2.5.1",
+  "version": "2.6.0",
   "repository": {
     "url": "https://github.com/cmeans/mcp-clipboard",
     "source": "github"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     {
       "registryType": "pypi",
       "identifier": "mcp-clipboard",
-      "version": "2.5.1",
+      "version": "2.6.0",
       "transport": {
         "type": "stdio"
       }