diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml
index 6149a6c1c..dbf1befbc 100755
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/download.xml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
       </p>
       <ul>
           <li><link href="download.html#POI-3.6">The latest stable release is Apache POI 3.6</link></li>
+          <li><link href="download.html#POI-3.7beta1">The latest development release is Apache POI 3.7 Beta 1</link></li>
           <li><link href="download.html#archive">Archives of all prior releases</link></li>
       </ul>
       <p>
@@ -42,6 +43,50 @@
         of the files using the signatures and checksums available from this page.
       </p>
     </section>
+
+    <section id="POI-3.7beta1"><title>20 June 2010 - POI 3.7 beta 1 available</title>
+      <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.7
+        beta 1. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some
+        enhancements (especially text extraction). See the
+        <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/bin/RELEASE-NOTES.txt">full release notes</link> for more details.
+      </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 list</link> to track progress.</p>
+      <p>
+        The POI source release as well as the pre-built binary deployment packages are listed below. 
+        Pre-built versions of all <link href="index.html#components">POI components</link> are available in the central Maven repository
+        under Group ID "org.apache.poi" and Version "3.7beta1".
+      </p>
+      <section><title>Binary Distribution</title>
+      <ul>
+        <li><link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/bin/poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz">poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz</link> (
+          13MB, <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/dev/bin/poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz.asc">signed</link>)
+          <br/>
+          MD5 checksum: 05e464e323c6acfad07c888d3b088332
+        </li>
+        <li><link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/bin/poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip">poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip</link> (
+          18MB, <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/dev/bin/poi-bin-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip.asc">signed</link>)
+          <br/>
+          MD5 checksum: 115219d2953971d0103f193255397c2d
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+      </section>
+      <section><title>Source Distribution</title>
+      <ul>
+        <li><link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/src/poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz">poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz</link> (
+          30MB, <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/dev/src/poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.tar.gz.asc">signed</link>)
+          <br/>
+          MD5 checksum: 2550c128ed61d3d131bcaed609e899c1
+        </li>
+        <li><link href="http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/poi/dev/src/poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip">poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip</link> (
+          38MB, <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/dev/src/poi-src-3.7-beta1-20100620.zip.asc">signed</link>)
+          <br/>
+          MD5 checksum: b43af5602bb753b0e2e94f070c4b694d
+        </li>
+      </ul>
+      </section>
+    </section>
+
     <section id="POI-3.6"><title>15 December 2009 - POI 3.6 available</title>
       <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.6. 
         Featured are significant performance improvements and numerous bug fixes. See the 
@@ -83,6 +128,7 @@
       </ul>
       </section>
     </section>
+
     <section id="verify"><title>Verify</title>
       <p>
         It is essential that you verify the integrity of the downloaded files using the PGP or MD5 signatures. 
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
index 2183486ef..d2cc1d068 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -32,13 +32,23 @@
   </header>
 
   <body>
+    <section><title>20 June 2010 - POI 3.7 beta 1 available</title>
+     <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.7
+        beta 1. This includes a large number of bug fixes, and some
+        enhancements (especially text extraction). See the
+        <link href="http://www.apache.org/dist/poi/release/bin/RELEASE-NOTES.txt">full release notes</link> for more details.
+      </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>15 December 2009 - POI 3.6 is now available</title>
       <p>The Apache POI team is pleased to announce the release of 3.6. 
         Featured are significant performance improvements and numerous bug fixes.
-    </p>
-    <p>A full list of changes is available in the <link href="changes.html">change log</link>. 
+      </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>
+      <p>See the <link href="download.html">downloads</link> page for more details.</p>
     </section>
     <section><title>Mission Statement</title>
       <p>