diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7e4f5e632b4170f65013e06ea52907bb17b4b9b8..3b23d0488e9f7d4f2420082a0936cb0711cb2a77 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Knot Resolver 2.x.0 (2018-0M-DD)
+================================
+
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 - cache: fail lua cache operations if it isn't open (!639)
diff --git a/doc/NEWS.rst b/doc/NEWS.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4eb81942bf3bf76a9344d8797a3cbf3dd80c3a3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/NEWS.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+*************
+Release notes
+*************
+
+.. include:: ../NEWS
+
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index 7a361eb6f1cb099963f4f8f9077d77d5064d9482..2d169ac0f6b723352fa12cc5aa7a2ccde531b345 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ master_doc = 'index'
 
 # General information about the project.
 project = u'Knot DNS Resolver'
-copyright = u'2014-2017 CZ.NIC labs'
+copyright = u'2014-2018 CZ.NIC labs'
 version = { k[0][0]: k[0][1] for k in filter(None, [re.findall(r'(MAJOR|MINOR|PATCH) := ([0-9]+)',line) for line in open('../config.mk')])}
 version = '%s.%s.%s' % (version['MAJOR'], version['MINOR'], version['PATCH'])
 release = version
diff --git a/doc/index.rst b/doc/index.rst
index c900e2ab0b7fb17c8b2368cfb9660112b81cf3d2..2eca59966ed7418fa1f7faf2c222d3deb329cce4 100644
--- a/doc/index.rst
+++ b/doc/index.rst
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ and it provides a state-machine like API for extensions.
    build
    lib
    modules_api
+   NEWS
 
 
 Indices and tables