diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8807b049..92023c36 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ============================================================
 === 2018
 
-2.0.0RC7pre
+2.0.0RC7
         Accept empty sequences in input
 	Re-enable computing consensus structures in mlocarna output and stk-files
 	Remove perl prototype specs to avoid perl 5.18 incompatibility
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 6bb10441..8f27676b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ dnl                                               -*- Autoconf -*-
 dnl Process this file with autoconf to produce a configure script.
 
 AC_PREREQ(2.59)
-AC_INIT([LocARNA], [2.0.0RC7pre], [will@informatik.uni-freiburg.de], [locarna],
+AC_INIT([LocARNA], [2.0.0RC7], [will@informatik.uni-freiburg.de], [locarna],
         [http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/Software/LocARNA/])
 
 dnl special dir for aux config files