Set version to 3.26.0-RC1

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6c39b58dcd5a665db9b14a6b7410b58f59bc840b..11af2b785baca91d6e63878a6c323864710fb58c 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Release 3.26.0 (?? Oct 2025)
+Release 3.26.0.RC1 (17 Oct 2025)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
 This release supports X86/Linux, AMD64/Linux, ARM32/Linux, ARM64/Linux,
@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ To see details of a given bug, visit
   https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=XXXXXX
 where XXXXXX is the bug number as listed above.
 
+(3.26.0.RC1: 17 Oct 2025)
+
 Release 3.25.0 (25 Apr 2025)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index aa89abb9fa71d9aa1c67e2f8e76a8e2b7c671366..90fafaf1c5572cd416f4f19c50d34d0486d4c9c2 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ AC_PREREQ(2.69)
 m4_define([v_major_ver], [3])
 m4_define([v_minor_ver], [26])
 m4_define([v_micro_ver], [0])
-m4_define([v_suffix_ver], [GIT])
-m4_define([v_rel_date], ["?? Oct 2025"])
+m4_define([v_suffix_ver], [RC1])
+m4_define([v_rel_date], ["17 Oct 2025"])
 m4_define([v_version],
          m4_if(v_suffix_ver, [],
                [v_major_ver.v_minor_ver.v_micro_ver],