diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 2d9a5cde1..b49bb4b75 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-beta4"/>
+    <property name="version.id" value="3.8-beta5"/>
 
     <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 5be88f7e8..f2fcec286 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta4" date="2011-??-??">
+        </release>
+        <release version="3.8-beta4" date="2011-08-26">
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51678 - Extracting text from Bug51524.zip is slow</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">51671 - HWPFDocument.write based on NPOIFSFileSystem throws a NullPointerException</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">support for tables and hyperlinks in XSLF</action>