diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87a472eed..9aeb30458 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Changelog 
 
+## 1.26.0
+
+- change generated key type back to RSA as shipped versions
+  have problems to encrypt to Ed25519 keys
+
+- update rPGP to encrypt reliably to Ed25519 keys;
+  one of the next versions can finally use Ed25519 keys then
+
+
 ## 1.25.0
 
 - save traffic by downloading only messages that are really displayed #1236
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 36ae8eeeb..eb63467c9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.25.0"
+version = "1.26.0"
 dependencies = [
  "async-imap 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "async-native-tls 0.3.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -693,9 +693,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.25.0"
+version = "1.26.0"
 dependencies = [
- "deltachat 1.25.0",
+ "deltachat 1.26.0",
  "failure 0.1.6 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "human-panic 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "libc 0.2.66 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 92b0183d2..96e89ca17 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat"
-version = "1.25.0"
+version = "1.26.0"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"
 license = "MPL-2.0"
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ lto = true
 deltachat_derive = { path = "./deltachat_derive" }
 
 libc = "0.2.51"
-pgp = { version = "0.4.0", default-features = false }
+pgp = { version = "0.4.1", default-features = false }
 hex = "0.4.0"
 sha2 = "0.8.0"
 rand = "0.7.0"
diff --git a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
index 8ae25f13b..c9470ddde 100644
--- a/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
+++ b/deltachat-ffi/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "deltachat_ffi"
-version = "1.25.0"
+version = "1.26.0"
 description = "Deltachat FFI"
 authors = ["Delta Chat Developers (ML) <delta@codespeak.net>"]
 edition = "2018"