diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 9b66bab53..00f8c6601 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ under the License.
   <property name="mavendist.poi.dir" location="build/maven-dist/poi"/>
   <property name="mavendist.oap.dir" location="build/maven-dist/org.apache.poi"/>
   <property name="jar.name" value="poi"/>
-  <property name="version.id" value="3.1-alpha1"/>
+  <property name="version.id" value="3.5-alpha2"/>
   <property name="halt.on.test.failure" value="true"/>
 
   <property name="jdk.version.source" value="1.5"
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
index 1cd4891fd..b80dad7db 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@
     </devs>
 
 		<!-- Don't forget to update status.xml too! -->
+        <release version="3.5.1-alpha1" date="2008-04-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Common text extraction factory, which returns the correct POITextExtractor for the supplied data</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Text Extraction support for the new OOXML files (.xlsx, .docx and .pptx)</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Initial support for processing OOXML Excel files (.xlsx), both directly through XSSF, and also through the new common UserModel</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Created a common interface for handling PowerPoint files, irrespective of if they are .ppt or .pptx</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Created a common interface for handling Excel files, irrespective of if they are .xls or .xlsx</action>
+        </release>
         <release version="3.0.3-beta1" date="2008-04-??">
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Update HSLFSlideShow and HSSFWorkbook to take advantage of POIFS updates, and allow reading embeded documents</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Improve how POIFS works with directory entries, and update HWPFDocument to support reading an embeded word document</action>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 33bfce8ce..a729ca242 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@
 
 	<!-- Don't forget to update changes.xml too! -->
     <changes>
+        <release version="3.5.1-alpha1" date="2008-04-??">
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Common text extraction factory, which returns the correct POITextExtractor for the supplied data</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Text Extraction support for the new OOXML files (.xlsx, .docx and .pptx)</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Initial support for processing OOXML Excel files (.xlsx), both directly through XSSF, and also through the new common UserModel</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Created a common interface for handling PowerPoint files, irrespective of if they are .ppt or .pptx</action>
+           <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Created a common interface for handling Excel files, irrespective of if they are .xls or .xlsx</action>
+        </release>
         <release version="3.0.3-beta1" date="2008-04-??">
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Update HSLFSlideShow and HSSFWorkbook to take advantage of POIFS updates, and allow reading embeded documents</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Improve how POIFS works with directory entries, and update HWPFDocument to support reading an embeded word document</action>