diff --git a/doc/source/releases/relnotes_v0_10_0.rst b/doc/source/releases/relnotes_v0_10_0.rst
index 42544b2f..b4bfd56f 100644
--- a/doc/source/releases/relnotes_v0_10_0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/releases/relnotes_v0_10_0.rst
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ References now have *reference mode*, an attribute to control how
 the values of their derived References are determined when the values
 are core modelx objects, such as Spaces or Cells.
 The *reference mode* attribute can be set to either "absolute", "relative" or
-"auto". To specify a reference mode when setting a Reference, following
-methods are introduced.
+"auto". Following methods are introduced to set References
+by explicitly specifying their *reference modes*.
 
 .. py:currentmodule:: modelx.core.space
 
diff --git a/modelx/__init__.py b/modelx/__init__.py
index 2ca7b5d3..07bc7184 100644
--- a/modelx/__init__.py
+++ b/modelx/__init__.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 """
 
-VERSION = (0, 10, 0, "dev")
+VERSION = (0, 10, 0)
 __version__ = ".".join([str(x) for x in VERSION])
 from modelx.core.api import *  # must come after __version__ assignment.
 try: