diff --git a/cornac/__init__.py b/cornac/__init__.py
index 96f8821ece77a73d6f5f0451ff0586b29361ce17..5d1a04c0c278bd2141d6b93e5aaba0d4e7f1577b 100644
--- a/cornac/__init__.py
+++ b/cornac/__init__.py
@@ -23,4 +23,4 @@ from . import utils
 # 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 81952addb227d8e5b97eae29874f0e47402a24bd..38721b26f2b596b4cb385c6ad7e2230c616d9c4e 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -22,9 +22,9 @@ copyright = '2023, Preferred.AI'
 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 0c719a69d85091ac533ffe887100af39fd9cd898..f1a3a9df1fc32a5e0483b93949336b50db60d4ca 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ cmdclass = {
 
 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",