diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 74e14775..624aa374 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,30 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
 and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
 
+## \[2.0.0] - Unreleased
+### Added
+
+- Add additional environment variables for Nuclio configuration (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3894>)
+- Add KITTI segmentation and detection format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3757>)
+- Add LFW format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3770>)
+- Add Cityscapes format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3758>)
+- Add Open Images V6 format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3679>)
+
+### Changed
+- TDB
+
+### Deprecated
+- TDB
+
+### Removed
+- TDB
+
+### Fixed
+- TDB
+
+### Security
+- TDB
+
 ## \[1.7.0] - 2021-11-15
 
 ### Added
@@ -16,11 +40,6 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Add a tutorial on attaching cloud storage AWS-S3 (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3745>)
   and Azure Blob Container (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3778>)
 - The feature to remove annotations in a specified range of frames (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3617>)
-- Add additional environment variables for Nuclio configuration (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3894>)
-- Add KITTI segmentation and detection format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3757>)
-- Add LFW format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3770>)
-- Add Cityscapes format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3758>)
-- Add Open Images V6 format (<https://github.com/openvinotoolkit/cvat/pull/3679>)
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/cvat/__init__.py b/cvat/__init__.py
index ca5b50f9..4a067535 100644
--- a/cvat/__init__.py
+++ b/cvat/__init__.py
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 
 from cvat.utils.version import get_version
 
-VERSION = (1, 7, 0, 'final', 0)
+VERSION = (2, 0, 0, 'alpha', 0)
 
 __version__ = get_version(VERSION)