diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 219684d237..a8710311cc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,19 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2.0.0rc6
+
+### Various fixes & improvements
+
+- Restore original behavior by always creating a span (#3005) by @antonpirker
+- Merge baggage headers (incoming and new created ones) (#3001) by @antonpirker
+- Fix duplicate baggage headers in Celery integration introduced in SDK 2.0 (#2993) by @antonpirker
+- Make it work with old and new newrelic versions (#2999) by @antonpirker
+- docs: Update migration guide wording (#2987) by @colin-sentry
+- docs: Tweak migration guide (#2979) by @colin-sentry
+- Small updates to migration guide (#2911) by @colin-sentry
+- Update CHANGELOG.md (51a906c1) by @sentrivana
+- release: 1.45.0 (7570e39a) by @getsentry-bot
+
 ## 2.0.0rc5
 
 ## New Features
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 5055857729..805961e2f6 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 copyright = "2019-{}, Sentry Team and Contributors".format(datetime.now().year)
 author = "Sentry Team and Contributors"
 
-release = "2.0.0rc5"
+release = "2.0.0rc6"
 version = ".".join(release.split(".")[:2])  # The short X.Y version.
 
 
diff --git a/sentry_sdk/consts.py b/sentry_sdk/consts.py
index cc2fccdd8b..7db2220f68 100644
--- a/sentry_sdk/consts.py
+++ b/sentry_sdk/consts.py
@@ -345,4 +345,4 @@ def _get_default_options():
 del _get_default_options
 
 
-VERSION = "2.0.0rc5"
+VERSION = "2.0.0rc6"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index be7d7fabc1..892f51833e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ def get_file_text(file_name):
 
 setup(
     name="sentry-sdk",
-    version="2.0.0rc5",
+    version="2.0.0rc6",
     author="Sentry Team and Contributors",
     author_email="hello@sentry.io",
     url="https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python",