diff --git a/.rat-excludes b/.rat-excludes
index 78473b9..cf618c0 100644
--- a/.rat-excludes
+++ b/.rat-excludes
@@ -28,3 +28,4 @@
 examples/triggers/conf/*
 examples/hadoop_word_count/conf/log4j.properties
 pylib/cqlshlib/test/**
+src/resources/org/apache/cassandra/config/version.properties
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index e21091a..2fcb0fd 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <property name="debuglevel" value="source,lines,vars"/>
 
     <!-- default version and SCM information -->
-    <property name="base.version" value="2.0.3"/>
+    <property name="base.version" value="2.0.4"/>
     <property name="scm.connection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.developerConnection" value="scm:git://git.apache.org/cassandra.git"/>
     <property name="scm.url" value="http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cassandra.git;a=tree"/>
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 571503e..7e9d7a3 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+cassandra (2.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  * New release
+
+ -- Eric Evans <eevans@apache.org>  Fri, 27 Dec 2013 12:38:37 -0600
+
 cassandra (2.0.3) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New release