diff --git a/CHANGES/v2.0.txt b/CHANGES/v2.0.txt
index 4ffe10799e508124979ee9a6d7234c59527a6760..59516927a96efad634798706a2c5917559ce1e0b 100644
--- a/CHANGES/v2.0.txt
+++ b/CHANGES/v2.0.txt
@@ -139,9 +139,11 @@ For users:
 For developers:
 - Renamed Value.cpp to BiasValue.cpp
 
-Unreleased changes (will be included in 2.0.5)
+Version 2.0.5 (Dec 15, 2014)
 ----------------------------------------------
-See <a href="http://github.com/plumed/plumed2/commits/v2.0">branch v2.0 on git repository</a>.
+
+Notice that branch 2.0 will not be longer maintained!
+All users are invited to switch to version 2.1.
 
 For users:
 - Fixed a bug in replica exchange with different Hamiltonians (either lamdba-dynamics
@@ -161,6 +163,7 @@ For developers:
 - Added warning when performing regtests using an instance of plumed from
   a different directory
 
+
 */
 
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 143f4b688cddbc42fbb32712c1339aa6e0a71264..c661af93601b67cdac70f9fa800ae39aba426c31 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 # (this is same as gromacs)
 # Notice that "plumed --version" will return only 2.X
 # and "plumed --long-version" will return the full string
-2.0.4
+2.0.5