diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5788d74..479983f 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented here. The format follows
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
-## [0.2.0] - 2026-10-08
+## [0.2.0] - 2026-10-09
 
 0.2.0 adds five image-model families to the FLUX.1 support of 0.1.0. Each runs from its DFloat11 checkpoint through
 mflux, and the GPU decodes every compressed weight to exactly the bits the checkpoint stores. The peaks below are from
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fd92ff2..69e55aa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ other Mac has been measured. The numbers are under "Measured numbers" below.
 
 ## Status
 
-Pre-alpha: version 0.2.0 is on PyPI.
+Alpha: version 0.2.0 is on PyPI.
 
 Released in 0.1.0:
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index af77653..7c1f51a 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ keywords = [
   "mflux", "flux", "flux.1", "diffusion", "image-generation",
 ]
 classifiers = [
-  "Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha",
+  "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
   "Intended Audience :: Developers",
   "Intended Audience :: Science/Research",
   "License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License",