diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 116f99584..95f1e8a67 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -215,6 +215,17 @@ indexes and updates from previous versions.
 * @84660320 for reporting an issue with bloom indexes
 * @gumshoes @perhamm @jermudgeon @gmisagm for reporting the issue with updates
 
+## 2.0.0-beta2 (2019-10-22)
+
+**For beta releases**, upgrading from an earlier version of the
+extension (including previous beta releases) is not supported.
+
+This release introduces *distributed hypertables*, a major new
+feature that allows hypertables to scale out across multiple nodes for
+increased performance and fault tolerance. Please review the
+documentation to learn how to configure and use distributed
+hypertables and what current limitations are.
+
 ## 1.5.0 (2019-10-31)
 
 This release adds major new features and bugfixes since the 1.4.2 release.
diff --git a/version.config b/version.config
index e1c876176..b72cb7f0a 100644
--- a/version.config
+++ b/version.config
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-version = 2.0.0-dev
+version = 2.0.0-beta2
 update_from_version = 1.7.1