diff --git a/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml b/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml
index 73f58cace91..35728dc0594 100644
--- a/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml
+++ b/maintainer/conda/MDAnalysis/meta.yaml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package:
   name: mdanalysis
   # This has to be changed after a release
-  version: "2.0.0-dev0"
+  version: "2.0.0"
 
 source:
    git_url: https://github.com/MDAnalysis/mdanalysis
diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
index 2df56c00ec2..c2f3eff395b 100644
--- a/package/CHANGELOG
+++ b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The rules for this file:
   * release numbers follow "Semantic Versioning" http://semver.org
 
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-??/??/?? tylerjereddy, richardjgowers, IAlibay, hmacdope, orbeckst, cbouy,
+08/21/21 tylerjereddy, richardjgowers, IAlibay, hmacdope, orbeckst, cbouy,
          lilyminium, daveminh, jbarnoud, yuxuanzhuang, VOD555, ianmkenney,
          calcraven，xiki-tempula, mieczyslaw, manuel.nuno.melo, PicoCentauri,
          hanatok, rmeli, aditya-kamath, tirkarthi, LeonardoBarneschi, hejamu,
diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
index 0c6a22554ec..31bca53faad 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@
 # e.g. with lib.log
 
 #: Release of MDAnalysis as a string, using `semantic versioning`_.
-__version__ = "2.0.0-dev0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
+__version__ = "2.0.0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
diff --git a/package/setup.py b/package/setup.py
index ac6f8d9bbb0..d245612e2f0 100755
--- a/package/setup.py
+++ b/package/setup.py
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@
     from commands import getoutput
 
 # NOTE: keep in sync with MDAnalysis.__version__ in version.py
-RELEASE = "2.0.0-dev0"
+RELEASE = "2.0.0"
 
 is_release = 'dev' not in RELEASE
 
diff --git a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
index 60f12335323..746d74ad9de 100644
--- a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
+++ b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger("MDAnalysisTests.__init__")
 
 # keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
-__version__ = "2.0.0-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.0.0"
 
 
 # Do NOT import MDAnalysis at this level. Tests should do it themselves.
diff --git a/testsuite/setup.py b/testsuite/setup.py
index b2542ee064f..a8cb42c3621 100755
--- a/testsuite/setup.py
+++ b/testsuite/setup.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     # this must be in-sync with MDAnalysis
-    RELEASE = "2.0.0-dev0"
+    RELEASE = "2.0.0"
     with open("README") as summary:
         LONG_DESCRIPTION = summary.read()