diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 66553e9c78079fb9b5da0f7749e3175ec5bc2cc1..21fb63812a42a7580996eacbd70c0a03f4866648 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# v2.0.0
+# v2.0.0rc01
 **User Facing**
 * Endness metadata "Single Read" changed to "Single End" in data-hub, pipeline updated to handle (#110) ("Single Read" still acceptable for backwards compatibility)
 * Strandedness metadata "yes"/"no" changed to boolean "t"/"f" in data-hub, pipeline updated to handle (#70) ("yes"/"no" still acceptable for backwards compatibility)
diff --git a/workflow/nextflow.config b/workflow/nextflow.config
index 7eb7dffc6e50059f92850aa16159f70110c26930..44f2df5255691ee4eaf11ecf9cee1af2fa27f743 100644
--- a/workflow/nextflow.config
+++ b/workflow/nextflow.config
@@ -125,6 +125,6 @@ manifest {
   homePage = 'https://git.biohpc.swmed.edu/gudmap_rbk/rna-seq'
   description = 'This pipeline was created to be a standard mRNA-sequencing analysis pipeline which integrates with the GUDMAP and RBK consortium data-hub.'
   mainScript = 'rna-seq.nf'
-  version = 'v1.0.3'
+  version = 'v2.0.0rc01'
   nextflowVersion = '>=19.09.0'
 }