diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d4a8fb602..fdb3f8a84 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 [travis]: https://travis-ci.org/mcu-tools/mcuboot
 [license]: https://github.com/mcu-tools/mcuboot/blob/main/LICENSE
 
-This is MCUboot version 2.0.0-rc1
+This is MCUboot version 2.0.0
 
 MCUboot is a secure bootloader for 32-bits microcontrollers. It defines a
 common infrastructure for the bootloader and the system flash layout on
diff --git a/boot/zephyr/VERSION b/boot/zephyr/VERSION
index c359e4c0f..f646e74ba 100644
--- a/boot/zephyr/VERSION
+++ b/boot/zephyr/VERSION
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@ VERSION_MAJOR = 2
 VERSION_MINOR = 0
 PATCHLEVEL = 0
 VERSION_TWEAK = 0
-EXTRAVERSION = rc1
+EXTRAVERSION =
diff --git a/docs/release-notes.d/espressif-updates.md b/docs/release-notes.d/espressif-updates.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 11b918205..000000000
--- a/docs/release-notes.d/espressif-updates.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-espressif: allow the use of a different toolchain for building
diff --git a/docs/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes.md
index 2fc96f74a..45b32e6e2 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ function `boot_save_shared_data`.
   partitions.
 - Serial recovery with MBEDTLS no longer has undefined operations which
   led to usage faults when the secondary slot image was encrypted.
+- espressif: allow the use of a different toolchain for building
 
 ## Version 1.10.0
 
diff --git a/scripts/imgtool/__init__.py b/scripts/imgtool/__init__.py
index 04e2fec5f..249e23c95 100644
--- a/scripts/imgtool/__init__.py
+++ b/scripts/imgtool/__init__.py
@@ -14,4 +14,4 @@
 # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 # limitations under the License.
 
-imgtool_version = "2.0.0rc1"
+imgtool_version = "2.0.0"