diff --git a/History.rdoc b/History.rdoc
index 7f89d065..73725bb1 100644
--- a/History.rdoc
+++ b/History.rdoc
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 == Development (unreleased)
 
+== 2.0.0 2021-01-31
+
 === Changes
   * Rename `url_whitelist` to `url_allowlist`
   * Allowlist now supports regular expressions
@@ -27,7 +29,7 @@
   * remove all deprecated code and get the specs passing again.
   * Split off all adapter gems into their own repos: https://github.com/DatabaseCleaner/database_cleaner/pull/620
 
-== 1.99.0.beta 2020-05-30
+== 1.99.0 2021-01-31
 
 == Changes
   * Remove unnecessary dependency on database_cleaner-mongo from database_cleaner-mongoid: @botandrose
diff --git a/database_cleaner.gemspec b/database_cleaner.gemspec
index 6d1cd448..46133200 100644
--- a/database_cleaner.gemspec
+++ b/database_cleaner.gemspec
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ require_relative "./lib/database_cleaner/version"
 
 Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.name        = "database_cleaner"
-# FIXME temporarily hardcode to different version since core is at 2.0.0.beta2, but this gem only is at 2.0.0.beta
-# spec.version     = DatabaseCleaner::VERSION
-  spec.version     = "2.0.0.beta"
+  spec.version     = DatabaseCleaner::VERSION
   spec.authors     = ["Ben Mabey", "Ernesto Tagwerker", "Micah Geisel"]
   spec.email       = ["ernesto@ombulabs.com"]
 
@@ -18,5 +16,5 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |spec|
   spec.files       = ["lib/database_cleaner.rb"]
   spec.require_paths = ["lib"]
 
-  spec.add_dependency "database_cleaner-active_record", "~>2.0.0.beta2"
+  spec.add_dependency "database_cleaner-active_record", "~>2.0.0"
 end
diff --git a/lib/database_cleaner/version.rb b/lib/database_cleaner/version.rb
index 695c4ae8..142046ef 100644
--- a/lib/database_cleaner/version.rb
+++ b/lib/database_cleaner/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module DatabaseCleaner
-  VERSION = "2.0.0.beta2"
+  VERSION = "2.0.0"
 end