diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4197ad6..f8fa127 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Make Lastz Chains
 
 [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
-![version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.0.0%20alpha-blue)
+![version](https://img.shields.io/badge/version-2.0.0-blue)
 [![made-with-Nextflow](https://img.shields.io/badge/Made%20with-Nextflow-23aa62.svg)](https://www.nextflow.io/)
 
 Portable Hillerlab solution for generating pairwise genome alignment chains.
diff --git a/version.py b/version.py
index dc8f14d..54f4153 100755
--- a/version.py
+++ b/version.py
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ def to_string(self):
         return self.version_repr
 
 
-__version__ = Version(2, 0, 0, metadata="alpha")
+__version__ = Version(2, 0, 0)
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     print(f"Make Lastz Chains Version: {__version__}")