prerelease version 2.0.0rc1
diff --git a/src/markupsafe/__init__.py b/src/markupsafe/__init__.py
index 1d786fd..692f741 100644
--- a/src/markupsafe/__init__.py
+++ b/src/markupsafe/__init__.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
             pass
 
 
-__version__ = "2.0.0a1"
+__version__ = "2.0.0rc1"
 
 _striptags_re = re.compile(r"(<!--.*?-->|<[^>]*>)")