diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 09caf231..e0ef80ee 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 # Change Log
 
+## 1.0.0b2 - 2021-04-25
+
+‼️ BREAKING: Move `mdit-py-plugins` out of the core install requirements and into a `plugins` extra.
+
+Synchronised code with the upstream Markdown-It `v12.0.6`:
+
+- 🐛 FIX: Raise HTML blocks priority to resolve conflict with headings
+- 🐛 FIX: Newline not rendered in image alt attribute
+
 ## 1.0.0b1 - 2021-03-31
 
 [Full commit log](https://github.com/executablebooks/markdown-it-py/compare/v0.6.2...9ecda04)
@@ -8,7 +17,7 @@ This is the first beta release of the stable v1.x series.
 
 There are four notable (and breaking) changes:
 
-1. The code has been synchronised with the upstream Markdown-It v12.0.4.
+1. The code has been synchronised with the upstream Markdown-It `v12.0.4`.
    In particular, this update alters the parsing of tables to be consistent with the GFM specification: <https://github.github.com/gfm/#tables-extension->
    A number of parsing performance and validation improvements are also included.
 2. `Token.attrs` are now stored as dictionaries, rather than a list of lists.
diff --git a/markdown_it/__init__.py b/markdown_it/__init__.py
index 3a4e6d04..434cd892 100644
--- a/markdown_it/__init__.py
+++ b/markdown_it/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 from .main import MarkdownIt  # noqa: F401
 
 
-__version__ = "1.0.0b1"
+__version__ = "1.0.0b2"
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 349b4e96..8b85b395 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ commands =
 extras = testing
 commands = pytest benchmarking/bench_core.py {posargs}
 
+[testenv:py{36,37,38}-bench-packages]
+extras = testing,compare
+commands = pytest benchmarking/bench_packages.py {posargs}
+
 [testenv:docs-{update,clean}]
 extras = linkify,plugins,rtd
 whitelist_externals = rm