diff --git a/doc/en/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_2.0.0.md b/doc/en/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_2.0.0.md
index 3a9159c..b50e288 100644
--- a/doc/en/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_2.0.0.md
+++ b/doc/en/releases/RELEASE_NOTES_2.0.0.md
@@ -1,3 +1,22 @@
+<!--
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+
 # singa-incubating-2.0.0 Release Notes
 
 ---
diff --git a/rat-excludes b/rat-excludes
index 0930056..dd28d62 100644
--- a/rat-excludes
+++ b/rat-excludes
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-rat-excludes
\ No newline at end of file
+rat-excludes
+# Apache Rat cannot recognize the license header in jupyter notebooks
+.*\.ipynb 
\ No newline at end of file