diff --git a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
index e7d5fdec68..c514bf7757 100644
--- a/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Here are a couple of friendly tutorials you can include: http://makeapullrequest
 
 Working on your first Pull Request? You can learn how from this _free_ series, [How to Contribute to an Open Source Project on GitHub](https://egghead.io/series/how-to-contribute-to-an-open-source-project-on-github).
 
-As a side note, it helps to use newcomer-friendly language throughout the rest of your document. Here are a couple of examples from [Active Admin](https://github.com/haiiliin/abqpy/blob/2025/CONTRIBUTING.md):
+As a side note, it helps to use newcomer-friendly language throughout the rest of your document. Here are a couple of examples from [Active Admin](https://github.com/haiiliin/abqpy/blob/2026/CONTRIBUTING.md):
 
 At this point, you're ready to make your changes! Feel free to ask for help; everyone is a beginner at first :smile_cat:
 
diff --git a/.github/keylabeler.yml b/.github/keylabeler.yml
index 3611976912..a51c6de606 100644
--- a/.github/keylabeler.yml
+++ b/.github/keylabeler.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ caseSensitive: false
 
 # Explicit keyword mappings to labels. Form of match:label. Required.
 labelMappings:
+  "- [x] 2026": backport-to-2026
   "- [x] 2025": backport-to-2025
   "- [x] 2024": backport-to-2024
   "- [x] 2023": backport-to-2023
diff --git a/.github/mergify.yml b/.github/mergify.yml
index b09e9ddfcd..5c791ce6c7 100644
--- a/.github/mergify.yml
+++ b/.github/mergify.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,49 @@
 pull_request_rules:
+  - name: Backport to 2026 (auto-merge)
+    conditions:
+      - label=backport-to-2026
+      - label!=disable-auto-merge
+      - label!=disable-auto-merge-2026
+    actions:
+      backport:
+        title: "{{ title }} (backport #{{ number }})"
+        body: |
+          {{ body }}
+
+          This is an automatic backport of pull request #{{number}} done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).
+
+          {{ cherry_pick_error }}
+        branches:
+          - "2026"
+        assignees:
+          - "{{ author }}"
+        labels:
+          - backport
+          - "2026"
+  - name: Backport to 2026 (disable-auto-merge)
+    conditions:
+      - label=backport-to-2026
+      - or:
+          - label=disable-auto-merge
+          - label=disable-auto-merge-2026
+    actions:
+      backport:
+        title: "{{ title }} (backport #{{ number }})"
+        body: |
+          {{ body }}
+
+          This is an automatic backport of pull request #{{number}} done by [Mergify](https://mergify.com).
+
+          {{ cherry_pick_error }}
+        branches:
+          - "2026"
+        assignees:
+          - "{{ author }}"
+        labels:
+          - backport
+          - "2026"
+          - disable-auto-merge
+
   - name: Backport to 2025 (auto-merge)
     conditions:
       - label=backport-to-2025
diff --git a/.github/workflows/translations.yml b/.github/workflows/translations.yml
index 157a1db341..747ad5f75a 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/translations.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/translations.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ jobs:
           - "2023"
           - "2024"
           - "2025"
+          - "2026"
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
       - name: Checkout the repository
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 85485cdd09..63df7a7639 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2022-2025 Hailin-Wang
+Copyright (c) 2022-2026 Hailin-Wang
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 6c71686222..fb92b97e88 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
 # further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
 # documentation.
 READTHEDOCS = "READTHEDOCS" in os.environ
-versions = ["dev"] + [str(v) for v in range(2025, 2015, -1)]
+versions = ["dev"] + [str(v) for v in range(2026, 2015, -1)]
 with open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "locale", "edit-urls.json")) as f:
     edit_urls = json.load(f)
 html_theme_options = {