diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6fb480cae7e..8afe8c854c1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 - When no columns are documented and persist_docs.columns is True, skip creating comments instead of failing with errors ([#2439](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2439), [#2440](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2440))
 - Fixed an argument issue with the `create_schema` macro on bigquery ([#2445](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2445), [#2448](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2448))
 - dbt now logs using the adapter plugin's ideas about how relations should be displayed ([dbt-spark/#74](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt-spark/issues/74), [#2450](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2450))
+- The create_adapter_plugin.py script creates a version 2 dbt_project.yml file ([#2451](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/issues/2451), [#2455](https://github.com/fishtown-analytics/dbt/pull/2455))
 
 
 ## dbt 0.17.0rc1 (May 12, 2020)
diff --git a/core/scripts/create_adapter_plugins.py b/core/scripts/create_adapter_plugins.py
index f1e4d5b7aa7..cd40fba30f4 100644
--- a/core/scripts/create_adapter_plugins.py
+++ b/core/scripts/create_adapter_plugins.py
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 PROJECT_TEMPLATE = '''
 name: dbt_{adapter}
 version: {version}
+config-version: 2
 
 macro-paths: ["macros"]
 '''