diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b01d9912dd..487384b73a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+2.0.1.pre6 to 2.0.1:
+
+
 2.0.1.pre5 to 2.0.1.pre6:
   - MSTransferor: fix positional and kwargs passed to sendAlert API (Alan Malta Rodrigues) #11032
   - Reorder RSE's status and record age checks from RucioConMon. (Todor Ivanov) #11029
diff --git a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
index 0e9c7cab0a..46e670f3f1 100644
--- a/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
+++ b/src/python/WMCore/__init__.py
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@
 
 """
 
-__version__ = '2.0.1.pre6'
+__version__ = '2.0.1'
 __all__ = []