diff --git a/package/CHANGELOG b/package/CHANGELOG
index c42a1f4edb0..5b66dd2bacb 100644
--- a/package/CHANGELOG
+++ b/package/CHANGELOG
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ The rules for this file:
 
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-??/??/?? IAlibay, ianmkenney, PicoCentauri, pgbarletta, p-j-smith, 
+12/26/23 IAlibay, ianmkenney, PicoCentauri, pgbarletta, p-j-smith, 
          richardjgowers, lilyminium, ALescoulie, hmacdope, HeetVekariya, 
          JoStoe, jennaswa, ljwoods2
 
diff --git a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
index 31a978a816e..ce16880b77e 100644
--- a/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
+++ b/package/MDAnalysis/version.py
@@ -67,4 +67,4 @@
 # e.g. with lib.log
 
 #: Release of MDAnalysis as a string, using `semantic versioning`_.
-__version__ = "2.7.0-dev0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
+__version__ = "2.7.0"  # NOTE: keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
diff --git a/package/pyproject.toml b/package/pyproject.toml
index 4b1ed86317c..db6b0591570 100644
--- a/package/pyproject.toml
+++ b/package/pyproject.toml
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ maintainers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
-    'numpy>=1.22.3',
+    'numpy>=1.22.3,<2.0',
     'GridDataFormats>=0.4.0',
     'mmtf-python>=1.0.0',
     'joblib>=0.12',
diff --git a/package/setup.py b/package/setup.py
index 045b644b8a5..c44b7f64c8d 100755
--- a/package/setup.py
+++ b/package/setup.py
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@
 from subprocess import getoutput
 
 # NOTE: keep in sync with MDAnalysis.__version__ in version.py
-RELEASE = "2.7.0-dev0"
+RELEASE = "2.7.0"
 
 is_release = 'dev' not in RELEASE
 
diff --git a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
index 403963a7a3b..e9cf6107e33 100644
--- a/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
+++ b/testsuite/MDAnalysisTests/__init__.py
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
 logger = logging.getLogger("MDAnalysisTests.__init__")
 
 # keep in sync with RELEASE in setup.py
-__version__ = "2.7.0-dev0"
+__version__ = "2.7.0"
 
 
 # Do NOT import MDAnalysis at this level. Tests should do it themselves.
diff --git a/testsuite/setup.py b/testsuite/setup.py
index b61a740e90f..171527bd9c9 100755
--- a/testsuite/setup.py
+++ b/testsuite/setup.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ def run(self):
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     # this must be in-sync with MDAnalysis
-    RELEASE = "2.7.0-dev0"
+    RELEASE = "2.7.0"
     with open("README") as summary:
         LONG_DESCRIPTION = summary.read()