diff --git a/cornac/__init__.py b/cornac/__init__.py
index 96f8821e..5d1a04c0 100644
--- a/cornac/__init__.py
+++ b/cornac/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@
 # Also importable from root
 from .experiment import Experiment
 
-__version__ = '1.18'
+__version__ = '2.0'
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 81952add..38721b26 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@
 author = 'Preferred.AI'
 
 # The short X.Y version
-version = '1.18'
+version = '2.0'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
-release = '1.18.0'
+release = '2.0.0'
 
 
 # -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0c719a69..f1a3a9df 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 setup(
     name="cornac",
-    version="1.18.0",
+    version="2.0.0",
     description="A Comparative Framework for Multimodal Recommender Systems",
     long_description=long_description,
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",