diff --git a/src/aosm/HISTORY.rst b/src/aosm/HISTORY.rst
index 47b7b3370f6..b214088e7ab 100644
--- a/src/aosm/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/src/aosm/HISTORY.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 Release History
 ===============
+2.0.0b5
+++++++++
+* Remove `__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)` from `vendored_sdks/azure_storagev2/__init__.py` to fix the namespace package issue.
+
 2.0.0b4
 ++++++++
 * Fixing the unauthorized error when publishing to ACR
diff --git a/src/aosm/azext_aosm/vendored_sdks/azure_storagev2/__init__.py b/src/aosm/azext_aosm/vendored_sdks/azure_storagev2/__init__.py
index 77845c19798..c5263f74db4 100644
--- a/src/aosm/azext_aosm/vendored_sdks/azure_storagev2/__init__.py
+++ b/src/aosm/azext_aosm/vendored_sdks/azure_storagev2/__init__.py
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
 # Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-__import__('pkg_resources').declare_namespace(__name__)
diff --git a/src/aosm/setup.py b/src/aosm/setup.py
index ea46bd38b55..b3d2640600a 100644
--- a/src/aosm/setup.py
+++ b/src/aosm/setup.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 # Confirm this is the right version number you want and it matches your
 # HISTORY.rst entry.
-VERSION = "2.0.0b4"
+VERSION = "2.0.0b5"
 
 
 # The full list of classifiers is available at