diff --git a/.cruft.json b/.cruft.json
index c9f1b4ed..51442136 100644
--- a/.cruft.json
+++ b/.cruft.json
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 {
   "checkout": null,
-  "commit": "57105a14fe4ad7aff83c0b10d523bb19fe1f4bdd",
+  "commit": "26afa85ef969fa8385019c932f32d6b7b452b142",
   "context": {
     "cookiecutter": {
       "project_name": "common",
       "short_summary": "Common library for MEx python projects.",
       "long_summary": "The `mex-common` library is a software development toolkit that is used by multiple components within the MEx project. It contains utilities for building pipelines like a common commandline interface, logging and configuration setup. It also provides common auxiliary connectors that can be used to fetch data from external services and a re-usable implementation of the MEx metadata schema as pydantic models.",
       "_template": "https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/mex-template",
-      "_commit": "57105a14fe4ad7aff83c0b10d523bb19fe1f4bdd"
+      "_commit": "26afa85ef969fa8385019c932f32d6b7b452b142"
     }
   },
   "directory": null,
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index f2e20a29..b563fee8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changes
 
+- updated template to https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/mex-template/commit/26afa8
+
 - updated template to https://github.com/robert-koch-institut/mex-template/commit/57105a
 
 ### Deprecated