diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 9207cdf2..c7553c4d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ extensions: Contributions to TinyDB are welcome! Here's how to get started:
 Changelog
 *********
 
+**v2.0.1** (2014-09-22)
+=======================
+
+- Fixed handling of unicode data in Python 2 (see `issue #28 <https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb/issues/28>`_).
+
 **v2.0.0** (2014-09-05)
 =======================
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 7575f034..15c2ab2f 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ Version Numbering
 TinyDB follows the SemVer versioning guidelines. For more information,
 see `semver.org <http://semver.org/>`_
 
+**v2.0.1** (2014-09-22)
+=======================
+
+- Fixed handling of unicode data in Python 2 (see `issue #28 <https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb/issues/28>`_).
+
 **v2.0.0** (2014-09-05)
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 60665a67..8ed3a677 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="tinydb",
-    version="2.0.0",
+    version="2.0.1",
     packages=find_packages(),
 
     # development metadata