diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 237135d235..5da18ebe8c 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.0.0.pre3 to 2.0.0:
+
+
 2.0.0.pre2 to 2.0.0.pre3:
   - Check that sdir exists on a file system (Valentin Kuznetsov) #10938
 
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index 5a54e6e41d..a11818fe5f 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0.pre3'
+__version__ = '2.0.0'
 __all__ = []