diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 959f69c6a..acf559dd4 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ under the License.
 
     <description>The Apache POI project Ant build.</description>
 
-    <property name="version.id" value="3.8-beta5"/>
+    <property name="version.id" value="3.8-beta6"/>
 
     <property environment="env"/>
     <!-- the repository to download jars from -->
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
index 12428702e..425f0bdf0 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -32,19 +32,19 @@
   </header>
 
   <body>
-    <section><title>28 August 2011 -  The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary</title>
-      <p>
-        The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary. On the 28th of August 2001, the first 0.1 alpha version of POI was released. 
-        <link href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces14">Read more...</link></p>
-    </section>
-    <section><title>26 August 2011 - POI 3.8 beta 4 available</title>
-      <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8 beta 4. 
+    <section><title>17 December 2011 - POI 3.8 beta 5 available</title>
+      <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.8 beta 5. 
          This includes a large number of bug fixes and enhancements. 
       </p>
       <p>A full list of changes is available in the <link href="changes.html">change log</link>.
         People interested should also follow the <link href="mailinglists.html">dev mailing list</link> to track further progress.</p>
       <p>See the <link href="download.html">downloads</link> page for more details.</p>
     </section>
+    <section><title>28 August 2011 -  The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary</title>
+      <p>
+        The Apache POI project is celebrating its 10th anniversary. On the 28th of August 2001, the first 0.1 alpha version of POI was released. 
+        <link href="https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces14">Read more...</link></p>
+    </section>
     <section><title>29 October 2010 - POI 3.7 available</title>
      <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.7. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some
         enhancements (especially text extraction). See the
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index dc63536be..433cc589f 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,9 @@
     </developers>
 
     <changes>
-        <release version="3.8-beta5" date="2011-??-??">
+        <release version="3.8-beta6" date="2012-??-??">
+        </release>
+        <release version="3.8-beta5" date="2011-12-17">
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">52204 - Deprecated XSSFWorkbook(String path) constructor because it does not close underlying .zip file</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">46288 - fixed refcount of Fill pictures in HSLF </action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">51961 - support compression of temp files in SXSSF </action>
