diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9a6de0b..74d53c1 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "fedora-update-feedback"
 description = "Provide feedback for fedora updates (inspired by fedora-easy-karma)"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 
-version = "2.0.0-beta.3"
+version = "2.0.0"
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.56.0"
 
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 66f6406..dd66702 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# Release 2.0.0 "Finally" (February 01, 2022)
+
+This release contains only minor code changes compared to the previous beta:
+
+- slightly improved progress reporting
+- use custom User-Agent header for HTTP requests
+
+Additionally, some crate dependencies were updated to match the versions that
+are available from Fedora repositories (at the time of publishing).
+
+For a complete list of changes since `v1.1.0`, read the release notes for the
+last three beta releases.
+
 # Release 2.0.0-beta.3 "Fix the Fix" (January 28, 2022)
 
 This beta release only changes the way bash completions are generated to