diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8ca26e1e5..1c941dec3 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
-Release 2.0.0 beta3 (in development)
-====================================
+Release 2.0.0 (released Mar 29, 2019)
+=====================================
 
 Dependencies
 ------------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * LaTeX builder now depends on TeX Live 2015 or above.
 * LaTeX builder (with ``'pdflatex'`` :confval:`latex_engine`) will process
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Dependencies
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * Drop python 2.7 and 3.4 support
 * Drop docutils 0.11 support
@@ -78,14 +78,14 @@ Incompatible changes
 * #4550: All tables and figures without ``align`` option are displayed to center
 * #4587: html: Output HTML5 by default
 
-1.8.0b2
+2.0.0b2
 
 * texinfo: image files are copied into ``name-figure`` directory
 
 Deprecated
 ----------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * Support for evaluating Python 2 syntax is deprecated. This includes
   configuration files which should be converted to Python 3.
@@ -174,7 +174,7 @@ For more details, see :ref:`deprecation APIs list <dev-deprecated-apis>`.
 Features added
 --------------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * #1618: The search results preview of generated HTML documentation is
   reader-friendlier: instead of showing the snippets as raw reStructuredText
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ Features added
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * #1682: LaTeX: writer should not translate Greek unicode, but use textgreek
   package
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * HTML search: search always returns nothing when multiple search terms are
   used and one term is shorter than three characters
 
-1.8.0b2
+2.0.0b2
 
 * #6096: html: Anchor links are not added to figures
 * #3620: html: Defer searchindex.js rather than loading it via ajax
@@ -269,41 +269,21 @@ Bugs fixed
   docs, allow negative values.
 * #6178: i18n: Captions missing in translations for hidden TOCs
 
-1.8.0 final
+2.0.0 final
 
 * #6196: py domain: unexpected prefix is generated
 
 Testing
 --------
 
-1.8.0b1
+2.0.0b1
 
 * Stop to use ``SPHINX_TEST_TEMPDIR`` envvar
 
-1.8.0b2
+2.0.0b2
 
 * Add a helper function: ``sphinx.testing.restructuredtext.parse()``
 
-Release 1.8.6 (in development)
-
-Dependencies
-------------
-
-Incompatible changes
---------------------
-
-Deprecated
-----------
-
-Features added
---------------
-
-Bugs fixed
-----------
-
-Testing
---------
-
 Release 1.8.5 (released Mar 10, 2019)
 =====================================
 
diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index cab6a6a0d..9d07412d2 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ if 'PYTHONWARNINGS' not in os.environ:
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', "'U' mode is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, module='docutils.io')
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0+'
+__version__ = '2.0.0'
 __released__ = '2.0.0'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 
 #: Version info for better programmatic use.
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ __released__ = '2.0.0'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 #:
 #: .. versionadded:: 1.2
 #:    Before version 1.2, check the string ``sphinx.__version__``.
-version_info = (2, 0, 0, 'beta', 3)
+version_info = (2, 0, 0, 'final', 0)
 
 package_dir = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))