diff --git a/.projen/tasks.json b/.projen/tasks.json
index cf2fdb2c..a8299a2f 100644
--- a/.projen/tasks.json
+++ b/.projen/tasks.json
@@ -178,7 +178,8 @@
       "name": "release:release-v2",
       "description": "Prepare a release from \"release-v2\" branch",
       "env": {
-        "RELEASE": "true"
+        "RELEASE": "true",
+        "MAJOR": "2"
       },
       "steps": [
         {
diff --git a/.projenrc.js b/.projenrc.js
index 851ed7ab..3edfcba5 100644
--- a/.projenrc.js
+++ b/.projenrc.js
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ const project = new awscdk.AwsCdkConstructLibrary({
   name: '@myhelix/cdk-watchful',
   description: 'Watching your CDK apps since 2019',
   defaultReleaseBranch: 'release-v2',
-
   authorName: 'Elad Ben-Israel (maintained by myhelix)',
   authorEmail: 'ops@helix.com',
   repository: 'https://github.com/myhelix/cdk-watchful.git',
@@ -17,10 +16,12 @@ const project = new awscdk.AwsCdkConstructLibrary({
 
   cdkVersion,
   cdkVersionPinning: true,
-
   devDeps: ['aws-sdk', '@aws-cdk/assert'],
 });
 
+// use same version with cdkVersion
+project.package.addVersion(cdkVersion);
+
 project.gitignore.exclude('.env', '.idea');
 project.gitignore.exclude('example/*.js', 'example/*.d.ts');