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 # Ongoing Development
 
-* This release of the R package builds against [TileDB 2.26.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.26.0), and has also been tested against earlier releases as well as the development version (#745, #749, #750)
+* This release of the R package builds against [TileDB 2.26.0](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB/releases/tag/2.26.0), and has also been tested against earlier releases as well as the development version (#745, #749, #750, #754)
 
 ## Improvements
 
diff --git a/tools/tiledbVersion.txt b/tools/tiledbVersion.txt
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-version: 2.26.0-rc2
-sha: fba2ca4
+version: 2.26.0-rc4
+sha: 9683584