diff --git a/stubs/mysqlclient/METADATA.toml b/stubs/mysqlclient/METADATA.toml
index 159b06b06..96f90c6f0 100644
--- a/stubs/mysqlclient/METADATA.toml
+++ b/stubs/mysqlclient/METADATA.toml
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version = "2.0.*"
\ No newline at end of file
+version = "2.1.*"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/stubs/mysqlclient/MySQLdb/__init__.pyi b/stubs/mysqlclient/MySQLdb/__init__.pyi
index 7e8070b3e..87fbcf2b2 100644
--- a/stubs/mysqlclient/MySQLdb/__init__.pyi
+++ b/stubs/mysqlclient/MySQLdb/__init__.pyi
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ from MySQLdb._mysql import (
     ProgrammingError as ProgrammingError,
     Warning as Warning,
     debug as debug,
-    escape as escape,
-    escape_string as escape_string,
     get_client_info as get_client_info,
     string_literal as string_literal,
 )