diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index bb216e8734f02c206a2a8be3ed15af94105ea6da..12c1dd6308ff42f6508dbc6ddd0295ed01d5540d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,13 +1,27 @@
-GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2010-11-27
+GNU tar NEWS - User visible changes. 2011-03-12
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
 
 
-version 1.25.90 - (Git)
+version 1.26 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2011-03-12
 
 * Bugfixes
+
 ** Fix the --verify option, which broke in version 1.24.
+
 ** Fix storing long sparse file names in PAX archives.
 
+** Fix correctness of --atime-preserve=replace
+
+tar --atime-preserve=replace no longer tries to restore atime of
+zero-sized files.
+
+** Work around POSIX incompatibilities on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Tru64
+
+** Fix bug with --one-file-system --listed-incremental
+
+When invoked with these two options, tar 1.25 would add only the
+top-level directory to the archive, but not its contents.
+
 
 version 1.25 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2010-11-07
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index d112474ff9eb80ab81acefc37980812b6bd27177..db69cb82b378da8b9f6437bc6b8b35ab9b3ba970 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 # 02110-1301, USA.
 
-AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.25], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
+AC_INIT([GNU tar], [1.26], [bug-tar@gnu.org])
 AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([src/tar.c])
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
 AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
diff --git a/po/POTFILES.in b/po/POTFILES.in
index cd48b268a8871bb2b8412627d60867370d8ead14..94b29b6b9a78fd3336ca14b4c09d4bda1e50ac88 100644
--- a/po/POTFILES.in
+++ b/po/POTFILES.in
@@ -37,7 +37,6 @@ gnu/version-etc.c
 gnu/xalloc-die.c
 
 lib/paxerror.c
-lib/paxexit.c
 lib/paxnames.c
 lib/rtapelib.c