diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 54c5bb06c..281879685 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Changes
 
-## [2.0.0] - 2019-12-xx
+## [2.0.0-rc] - 2019-12-20
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 0fab5d58c..aba3c6546 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web"
-version = "2.0.0-alpha.6"
+version = "2.0.0-rc"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust."
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/actix-cors/Cargo.toml b/actix-cors/Cargo.toml
index 05885acfd..392168e42 100644
--- a/actix-cors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-cors/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ name = "actix_cors"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "2.0.0-alpha.5"
+actix-web = "2.0.0-rc"
 actix-service = "1.0.0"
 derive_more = "0.99.2"
 futures = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/actix-files/Cargo.toml b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
index 3eecdbabe..7f11605a1 100644
--- a/actix-files/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-files/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ name = "actix_files"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.6", default-features = false }
-actix-http = "1.0.0"
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", default-features = false }
+actix-http = "1.0.1"
 actix-service = "1.0.0"
 bitflags = "1"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ v_htmlescape = "0.4"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.6", features=["openssl"] }
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", features=["openssl"] }
diff --git a/actix-identity/Cargo.toml b/actix-identity/Cargo.toml
index 4e96203bf..a5058b8cd 100644
--- a/actix-identity/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-identity/Cargo.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ name = "actix_identity"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.5", default-features = false, features = ["secure-cookies"] }
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", default-features = false, features = ["secure-cookies"] }
 actix-service = "1.0.0"
 futures = "0.3.1"
 serde = "1.0"
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ time = "0.1.42"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = "1.0.0"
-actix-http = "1.0.0"
+actix-http = "1.0.1"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
index b0ef36d10..bbf83ed00 100644
--- a/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-multipart/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ name = "actix_multipart"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.5", default-features = false }
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", default-features = false }
 actix-service = "1.0.0"
 actix-utils = "1.0.3"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
diff --git a/actix-session/Cargo.toml b/actix-session/Cargo.toml
index f26401851..ed80174ff 100644
--- a/actix-session/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-session/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ default = ["cookie-session"]
 cookie-session = ["actix-web/secure-cookies"]
 
 [dependencies]
-actix-web = "2.0.0-alpha.5"
+actix-web = "2.0.0-rc"
 actix-service = "1.0.0"
 bytes = "0.5.3"
 derive_more = "0.99.2"
diff --git a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
index d4fe45363..6f573e442 100644
--- a/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-actors/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web-actors"
-version = "2.0.0-alpha.1"
+version = "2.0.0"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix actors support for actix web framework."
 readme = "README.md"
@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ name = "actix_web_actors"
 path = "src/lib.rs"
 
 [dependencies]
-actix = "0.9.0-alpha.1"
-actix-web = "2.0.0-alpha.5"
-actix-http = "1.0.0"
+actix = "0.9.0"
+actix-web = "2.0.0-rc"
+actix-http = "1.0.1"
 actix-codec = "0.2.0"
 bytes = "0.5.2"
 futures = "0.3.1"
diff --git a/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml b/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
index 71facfe9d..3fe561deb 100644
--- a/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/actix-web-codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ proc-macro2 = "^1"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-rt = { version = "1.0.0" }
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.4" }
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc" }
 futures = { version = "0.3.1" }
diff --git a/awc/Cargo.toml b/awc/Cargo.toml
index d1eaa7f69..723cd59de 100644
--- a/awc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/awc/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ rust-tls = { version = "0.16.0", package="rustls", optional = true, features = [
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 actix-connect = { version = "1.0.1", features=["openssl"] }
-actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-alpha.5", features=["openssl"] }
-actix-http = { version = "1.0.0", features=["openssl"] }
+actix-web = { version = "2.0.0-rc", features=["openssl"] }
+actix-http = { version = "1.0.1", features=["openssl"] }
 actix-http-test = { version = "1.0.0", features=["openssl"] }
 actix-utils = "1.0.3"
 actix-server = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/awc/tests/test_rustls_client.rs b/awc/tests/test_rustls_client.rs
index 5da5c1899..68acf7f71 100644
--- a/awc/tests/test_rustls_client.rs
+++ b/awc/tests/test_rustls_client.rs
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 
 use actix_http::HttpService;
 use actix_http_test::test_server;
-use actix_service::{map_config, pipeline_factory, ServiceFactory, IntoServiceFactory};
+use actix_service::{map_config, pipeline_factory, IntoServiceFactory, ServiceFactory};
 use actix_web::http::Version;
-use actix_web::{web, App, HttpResponse, dev::AppConfig};
+use actix_web::{dev::AppConfig, web, App, HttpResponse};
 use futures::future::ok;
 use open_ssl::ssl::{SslAcceptor, SslFiletype, SslMethod, SslVerifyMode};
 use rust_tls::ClientConfig;
@@ -62,10 +62,13 @@ async fn _test_connection_reuse_h2() {
         })
         .and_then(
             HttpService::build()
-                .h2(map_config(App::new()
-                               .service(web::resource("/").route(web::to(|| HttpResponse::Ok())))
-                               .into_factory(),
-                               |_| AppConfig::default(),
+                .h2(map_config(
+                    App::new()
+                        .service(
+                            web::resource("/").route(web::to(|| HttpResponse::Ok())),
+                        )
+                        .into_factory(),
+                    |_| AppConfig::default(),
                 ))
                 .openssl(ssl_acceptor())
                 .map_err(|_| ()),
diff --git a/src/app.rs b/src/app.rs
index 962ff4b47..a060eb53e 100644
--- a/src/app.rs
+++ b/src/app.rs
@@ -78,8 +78,9 @@ where
     /// an application instance. Http server constructs an application
     /// instance for each thread, thus application data must be constructed
     /// multiple times. If you want to share data between different
-    /// threads, a shared object should be used, e.g. `Arc`. Application
-    /// data does not need to be `Send` or `Sync`.
+    /// threads, a shared object should be used, e.g. `Arc`. Internally `Data` type
+    /// uses `Arc` so data could be created outside of app factory and clones could
+    /// be stored via `App::app_data()` method.
     ///
     /// ```rust
     /// use std::cell::Cell;
diff --git a/test-server/Cargo.toml b/test-server/Cargo.toml
index a6173088a..54cd01686 100644
--- a/test-server/Cargo.toml
+++ b/test-server/Cargo.toml
@@ -55,5 +55,5 @@ time = "0.1"
 open-ssl = { version="0.10", package="openssl", optional = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
-actix-web = "2.0.0-alpha.5"
-actix-http = "1.0.0"
+actix-web = "2.0.0-rc"
+actix-http = "1.0.1"