From c43fa9a25ef866ad609e2db23ef2ae877c508750 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:10:09 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [FSSDK-13070] update CHANGELOG for go v2.6.0

---
 CHANGELOG.MD | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.MD b/CHANGELOG.MD
index e29e8c35..d8305e06 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.MD
+++ b/CHANGELOG.MD
@@ -4,6 +4,14 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](http://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## [2.6.0] - September 2, 2026
+
+### New Features
+
+**Holdout Targeted Delivery Exclusion**: Holdouts can now be configured to exclude Targeted Delivery rules, so users held out of experiments still receive their Targeted Delivery experiences. This gives you a cleaner measure of experiment impact without holding users back from ongoing rollouts.
+
+- Add holdout exclude_targeted_deliveries support ([#458](https://github.com/optimizely/go-sdk/pull/458))
+
 ## [2.5.0] - July 14, 2026
 
 ## What's Changed

From e4adbc16d76f8b94209df0f4a252d5a660ae9e49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Md Junaed Hossain <169046794+junaed-optimizely@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2026 20:10:18 +0600
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [FSSDK-13070] bump version to 2.6.0

---
 pkg/event/version.go | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pkg/event/version.go b/pkg/event/version.go
index 6bdf62ff..c5538f54 100644
--- a/pkg/event/version.go
+++ b/pkg/event/version.go
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 package event
 
 // Version is the current version of the client
-var Version = "2.5.0"
+var Version = "2.6.0"
 
 // ClientName is the name of the client
 var ClientName = "go-sdk"