diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index a0376a06f07..6f7c2cd232f 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,22 @@
 
 .. towncrier release notes start
 
+20.2.3 (2020-09-08)
+===================
+
+Deprecations and Removals
+-------------------------
+
+- Deprecate support for Python 3.5 (`#8181 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8181>`_)
+
+Features
+--------
+
+- Make the ``setup.py install`` deprecation warning less noisy. We warn only
+  when ``setup.py install`` succeeded and ``setup.py bdist_wheel`` failed, as
+  situations where both fails are most probably irrelevant to this deprecation. (`#8752 <https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/8752>`_)
+
+
 20.2.2 (2020-08-11)
 ===================
 
diff --git a/news/8181.removal b/news/8181.removal
deleted file mode 100644
index ae6bbe9f88a..00000000000
--- a/news/8181.removal
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Deprecate support for Python 3.5
diff --git a/news/8752.feature b/news/8752.feature
deleted file mode 100644
index d2560da1803..00000000000
--- a/news/8752.feature
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-Make the ``setup.py install`` deprecation warning less noisy. We warn only
-when ``setup.py install`` succeeded and ``setup.py bdist_wheel`` failed, as
-situations where both fails are most probably irrelevant to this deprecation.
diff --git a/src/pip/__init__.py b/src/pip/__init__.py
index 611753fedec..9fb68d40354 100644
--- a/src/pip/__init__.py
+++ b/src/pip/__init__.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     from typing import List, Optional
 
 
-__version__ = "20.2.2"
+__version__ = "20.2.3"
 
 
 def main(args=None):