diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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-## 2.0.0-rc.3 / 2017-11-04
-
-_Changes compared to 2.0.0-rc.2._
-
-* [ENHANCEMENT] Remove remote read from the query path if no remote storage
-  is configured.
-* [ENHANCEMENT] Bump Consul HTTP client timeout to not match the Consul SD
-  watch timeout.
-* [ENHANCEMENT] Bump up a too small max block duration to the min block
-  duration instead of returning an error.
-* [BUGFIX] Avoid needless padding of 4 zero bytes in index files.
-* [BUGFIX] Delete old blocks during reload (necessary on MS Windows).
-* [BUGFIX] Fix regression of alert rules state loss on config reload.
-* [BUGFIX] Serialize background WAL operations to avoid data races.
-
-This also contains bugfixes and remote-storage features from the 1.8 branch.
+## 2.0.0 / 2017-11-08
+
+This release includes a completely rewritten storage, huge performance
+improvements, but also many backwards incompatible changes. For more
+information, read the announcement blog post and migration guide.
+
+https://prometheus.io/blog/2017/11/08/announcing-prometheus-2-0/
+https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/2.0/migration/
+
+* [CHANGE] Completely rewritten storage layer, with WAL. This is not backwards compatible with 1.x storage, and many flags have changed/disappeared.
+* [CHANGE] New staleness behavior. Series now marked stale after target scrapes no longer return them, and soon after targets disappear from service discovery.
+* [CHANGE] Rules files use YAML syntax now. Conversion tool added to promtool.
+* [CHANGE] Removed `count_scalar`, `drop_common_labels` functions and `keep_common` modifier from PromQL.
+* [CHANGE] Rewritten exposition format parser with much higher performance. The Protobuf exposition format is no longer supported.
+* [CHANGE] Example console templates updated for new storage and metrics names. Examples other than node exporter and Prometheus removed.
+* [CHANGE] Admin and lifecycle APIs now disabled by default, can be reenabled via flags
+* [CHANGE] Flags switched to using Kingpin, all flags are now --flagname rather than -flagname.
+* [FEATURE/CHANGE] Remote read can be configured to not read data which is available locally. This is enabled by default.
+* [FEATURE] Rules can be grouped now. Rules within a rule group are executed sequentially.
+* [FEATURE] Added experimental GRPC apis
+* [FEATURE] Add timestamp() function to PromQL.
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Remove remote read from the query path if no remote storage is configured.
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Bump Consul HTTP client timeout to not match the Consul SD watch timeout.
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Go-conntrack added to provide HTTP connection metrics.
+* [BUGFIX] Fix connection leak in Consul SD.
 
 ## 1.8.2 / 2017-11-04
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
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-2.0.0-rc.3
+2.0.0