diff --git a/.changes/1.35.26.json b/.changes/1.35.26.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18ce22d900
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changes/1.35.26.json
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+[
+  {
+    "category": "``bedrock``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Add support for Cross Region Inference in Bedrock Model Evaluations.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``budgets``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Releasing minor partitional endpoint updates",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``kinesis``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] This release includes support to add tags when creating a stream",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``pinpoint-sms-voice-v2``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] AWS End User Messaging SMS-Voice V2 has added support for resource policies. Use the three new APIs to create, view, edit, and delete resource policies.",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  },
+  {
+    "category": "``sagemaker``",
+    "description": "[``botocore``] Adding `HiddenInstanceTypes` and `HiddenSageMakerImageVersionAliases` attribute to SageMaker API",
+    "type": "api-change"
+  }
+]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.changes/next-release/api-change-bedrock-53366.json b/.changes/next-release/api-change-bedrock-53366.json
deleted file mode 100644
index a7534b3142..0000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/api-change-bedrock-53366.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "api-change",
-  "category": "``bedrock``",
-  "description": "[``botocore``] Add support for Cross Region Inference in Bedrock Model Evaluations."
-}
diff --git a/.changes/next-release/api-change-budgets-30758.json b/.changes/next-release/api-change-budgets-30758.json
deleted file mode 100644
index e657a9c59e..0000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/api-change-budgets-30758.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "api-change",
-  "category": "``budgets``",
-  "description": "[``botocore``] Releasing minor partitional endpoint updates"
-}
diff --git a/.changes/next-release/api-change-kinesis-46829.json b/.changes/next-release/api-change-kinesis-46829.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 302ec4fb8a..0000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/api-change-kinesis-46829.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "api-change",
-  "category": "``kinesis``",
-  "description": "[``botocore``] This release includes support to add tags when creating a stream"
-}
diff --git a/.changes/next-release/api-change-pinpointsmsvoicev2-73161.json b/.changes/next-release/api-change-pinpointsmsvoicev2-73161.json
deleted file mode 100644
index cbdf90ab80..0000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/api-change-pinpointsmsvoicev2-73161.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "api-change",
-  "category": "``pinpoint-sms-voice-v2``",
-  "description": "[``botocore``] AWS End User Messaging SMS-Voice V2 has added support for resource policies. Use the three new APIs to create, view, edit, and delete resource policies."
-}
diff --git a/.changes/next-release/api-change-sagemaker-10266.json b/.changes/next-release/api-change-sagemaker-10266.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 803c0d56c4..0000000000
--- a/.changes/next-release/api-change-sagemaker-10266.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "type": "api-change",
-  "category": "``sagemaker``",
-  "description": "[``botocore``] Adding `HiddenInstanceTypes` and `HiddenSageMakerImageVersionAliases` attribute to SageMaker API"
-}
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 8744708ae6..588cf92ce3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 CHANGELOG
 =========
 
+1.35.26
+=======
+
+* api-change:``bedrock``: [``botocore``] Add support for Cross Region Inference in Bedrock Model Evaluations.
+* api-change:``budgets``: [``botocore``] Releasing minor partitional endpoint updates
+* api-change:``kinesis``: [``botocore``] This release includes support to add tags when creating a stream
+* api-change:``pinpoint-sms-voice-v2``: [``botocore``] AWS End User Messaging SMS-Voice V2 has added support for resource policies. Use the three new APIs to create, view, edit, and delete resource policies.
+* api-change:``sagemaker``: [``botocore``] Adding `HiddenInstanceTypes` and `HiddenSageMakerImageVersionAliases` attribute to SageMaker API
+
+
 1.35.25
 =======
 
diff --git a/boto3/__init__.py b/boto3/__init__.py
index 9e64230350..ec572533e7 100644
--- a/boto3/__init__.py
+++ b/boto3/__init__.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from boto3.session import Session
 
 __author__ = 'Amazon Web Services'
-__version__ = '1.35.25'
+__version__ = '1.35.26'
 
 
 # The default Boto3 session; autoloaded when needed.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 9a3d3005b5..1f06a9868c 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ universal = 0
 
 [metadata]
 requires_dist =
-    botocore>=1.35.25,<1.36.0
+    botocore>=1.35.26,<1.36.0
     jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0
     s3transfer>=0.10.0,<0.11.0
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 29ff7fda77..f8a737f177 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 
 requires = [
-    'botocore>=1.35.25,<1.36.0',
+    'botocore>=1.35.26,<1.36.0',
     'jmespath>=0.7.1,<2.0.0',
     's3transfer>=0.10.0,<0.11.0',
 ]