diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2eda330f2..c8b30970e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,29 +2,9 @@
 
 Friendly reminder: We have a [bug bounty program](https://hackerone.com/cosmos).
 
-## v0.35.0-rc2
+## v0.35.0
 
-September 27, 2021
-
-### BREAKING CHANGES
-
-- Go API
-
-  - [crypto/armor]: [\#6963](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6963) remove package which is unused, and based on
-    deprecated fundamentals. Downstream users should maintain this
-    library. (@tychoish)
-  - [state] [store] [proxy] [rpc/core]: [\#6937](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6937) move packages to
-    `internal` to prevent consumption of these internal APIs by
-    external users. (@tychoish)
-
-### FEATURES
-
-- [\#6982](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6982) tendermint binary has built-in suppport for running the e2e application (with state sync support) (@cmwaters).
-
-
-## v0.35.0-rc1
-
-September 8, 2021
+October 4, 2021
 
 Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @JayT106, @bipulprasad, @alessio, @Yawning, @silasdavis,
 @cuonglm, @tanyabouman, @JoeKash, @githubsands, @jeebster, @crypto-facs, @liamsi, and @gotjoshua
@@ -63,6 +43,12 @@ Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @JayT106, @bipulprasad,
   - [abci/counter] [\#6684](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6684) Delete counter example app
 
 - Go API
+  - [crypto/armor]: [\#6963](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6963) remove package which is unused, and based on
+    deprecated fundamentals. Downstream users should maintain this
+    library. (@tychoish)
+  - [state] [store] [proxy] [rpc/core]: [\#6937](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6937) move packages to
+    `internal` to prevent consumption of these internal APIs by
+    external users. (@tychoish)
   - [pubsub] [\#6634](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6634) The `Query#Matches` method along with other pubsub methods, now accepts a `[]abci.Event` instead of `map[string][]string`. (@alexanderbez)
   - [p2p] [\#6618](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6618) [\#6583](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6583) Move `p2p.NodeInfo`, `p2p.NodeID` and `p2p.NetAddress` into `types` to support use in external packages. (@tychoish)
   - [node] [\#6540](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6540) Reduce surface area of the `node` package by making most of the implementation details private. (@tychoish)
@@ -109,6 +95,7 @@ Special thanks to external contributors on this release: @JayT106, @bipulprasad,
 
 ### FEATURES
 
+- [\#6982](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6982) tendermint binary has built-in suppport for running the e2e application (with state sync support) (@cmwaters).
 - [config] Add `--mode` flag and config variable. See [ADR-52](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/blob/master/docs/architecture/adr-052-tendermint-mode.md) @dongsam
 - [rpc] [\#6329](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6329) Don't cap page size in unsafe mode (@gotjoshua, @cmwaters)
 - [pex] [\#6305](https://github.com/tendermint/tendermint/pull/6305) v2 pex reactor with backwards compatability. Introduces two new pex messages to
diff --git a/version/version.go b/version/version.go
index 3fb08652e..348c814eb 100644
--- a/version/version.go
+++ b/version/version.go
@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ const (
 
 	// TMVersionDefault is the used as the fallback version of Tendermint Core
 	// when not using git describe. It is formatted with semantic versioning.
-	TMVersionDefault = "0.34.11"
+	TMVersionDefault = "0.35.0-unreleased"
+
 	// ABCISemVer is the semantic version of the ABCI library
 	ABCISemVer = "0.17.0"