diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 9608e3aa3..3dbb82b50 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,20 +1,11 @@
-Release 2.0.0 beta2 (in development)
-====================================
-
-Dependencies
-------------
+Release 2.0.0 beta2 (released Mar 21, 2019)
+===========================================
 
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 
 * texinfo: image files are copied into ``name-figure`` directory
 
-Deprecated
-----------
-
-Features added
---------------
-
 Bugs fixed
 ----------
 
diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index 6c15f920f..c99d092c2 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ if 'PYTHONWARNINGS' not in os.environ:
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', "'U' mode is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, module='docutils.io')
 
-__version__ = '2.0.0+'
-__released__ = '2.0.0'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
+__version__ = '2.0.0b2'
+__released__ = '2.0.0b2'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 
 #: Version info for better programmatic use.
 #: