diff --git a/gvmtools/__init__.py b/gvmtools/__init__.py
index 531dc539..434469a7 100644
--- a/gvmtools/__init__.py
+++ b/gvmtools/__init__.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 from gvm.utils import get_version_string
 
 
-VERSION = (2, 0, 0, 'dev', 1)
+VERSION = (2, 0, 0, 'beta', 1)
 """
 Current Version of gvm-tools as a tuple
 """