diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 0d17e8d3f..9112de255 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-beta2"/>
+    <property name="version.id" value="3.8-beta3"/>
 
     <property environment="env"/>
     <!-- the repository to download jars from -->
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index bbcbe99f7..729ba3e89 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Improve HSMF encoding guessing for 7 bit fields in MAPIMessage</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Allow HSMF access to the HTML body contents in MAPIMessage</action>
         </release>
-        <release version="3.8-beta2" date="2011-??-??">
+        <release version="3.8-beta2" date="2011-04-08">
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Implement the load method on MemoryPackagePart</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">50967 - Support for continued ExtSSTRecords</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">48968 - Support for HOUR, MINUTE and SECOND date formulas</action>