Version 2.6

We have a few significant changes since 2.5, including the capacity to
run as non-root. Full change set is in CHANGELOG.md.

Thanks to the contributors for v2.6:

 * Andrew Jeffery
 * Freddie Jheng
 * Haiyue Wang
 * James Lee
 * Jeremy Kerr
 * Matt Johnston
 * Nidhin MS
 * Potin Lai
 * rutaabhyankar

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@codeconstruct.com.au>

Author: jk-ozlabs

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/).
 
-## [Unreleased]
+## [2.6] - 2026-07-21
 
 ### Added
 

meson.build

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 project(
     'mctp', 'c',
     meson_version: '>= 0.59.0',
-    version: 'v2.5',
+    version: 'v2.6',
     license: 'GPLv2',
     default_options: [
         'warning_level=2',