diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index c8da7362d..9b0105687 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-v1.9.25
+v1.9.26
 
diff --git a/src/3rd_party/simple-websocket-server b/src/3rd_party/simple-websocket-server
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..417a2a9e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/3rd_party/simple-websocket-server
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 417a2a9e9dbd720b8d2dfa1dafe57cf1b37ca0d7