diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9b63c18..959cbfe 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [0.26.1] - 2024-06-06
+### Added
+- New `url` feature that maps to the corresponding feature from `tungstenite`
+  and allows connecting directly to `ws` / `wss` URLs.
+
 ## [0.26.0] - 2024-06-02
 ### Changed
 - Update to tungstenite 0.23.
@@ -186,7 +191,8 @@ No changelog is available for older versions as of yet.
 -->
 
 
-[Unreleased]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.26.0...HEAD
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.26.1...HEAD
+[0.26.1]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.26.1...0.26.0
 [0.26.0]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.26.0...0.25.1
 [0.25.1]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.25.1...0.25.0
 [0.25.0]: https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite/compare/0.25.0...0.24.0
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 4a0bb7e..a170ccf 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ license = "MIT"
 homepage = "https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite"
 repository = "https://github.com/sdroege/async-tungstenite"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/async-tungstenite"
-version = "0.26.0"
+version = "0.26.1"
 edition = "2018"
 readme = "README.md"
 include = ["examples/**/*", "src/**/*", "LICENSE", "README.md", "CHANGELOG.md"]
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ tokio-rustls-webpki-roots = ["__rustls-tls", "webpki-roots"]
 tokio-rustls-native-certs = ["__rustls-tls", "rustls-native-certs"]
 tokio-openssl = ["tokio-runtime", "real-tokio-openssl", "openssl"]
 verbose-logging = []
+url = ["tungstenite/url"]
 
 __rustls-tls = ["tokio-runtime", "real-tokio-rustls", "rustls-pki-types", "tungstenite/__rustls-tls"]