diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index e7ed612f..caf46c22 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,18 +1,16 @@
-1.7.0 (in development)
-======================
-
-dev
-===
+2.0.0
+=====
 
 - Python 3.5 is no longer supported.
 
-- Support for registering modules to be serialised by value. This will
-  allow for code defined in local modules to be serialised and executed
-  remotely without those local modules installed on the remote machine.
+- Support for registering modules to be serialised by value. This allows code
+  defined in local modules to be serialised and executed remotely without those
+  local modules installed on the remote machine.
   ([PR #417](https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle/pull/417))
 
 - Fix a side effect altering dynamic modules at pickling time.
   ([PR #426](https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle/pull/426))
+
 - Support for pickling type annotations on Python 3.10 as per [PEP 563](
   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0563/)
   ([PR #400](https://github.com/cloudpipe/cloudpickle/pull/400))
diff --git a/cloudpickle/__init__.py b/cloudpickle/__init__.py
index 27c3e3d7..afb073af 100644
--- a/cloudpickle/__init__.py
+++ b/cloudpickle/__init__.py
@@ -8,4 +8,4 @@
 # expose their Pickler subclass at top-level under the  "Pickler" name.
 Pickler = CloudPickler
 
-__version__ = '1.7.0dev0'
+__version__ = '2.0.0'