diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index dc4ee8eb7..4bc35f984 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ under the License.
   <property name="apache.repository" value="scp://people.apache.org/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-ibiblio-rsync-repository"/>
   <property name="snapshots.repository" value="scp://people.apache.org/www/people.apache.org/repo/m2-snapshot-repository/"/>
   <property name="jar.name" value="poi"/>
-  <property name="version.id" value="3.5-beta6"/>
+  <property name="version.id" value="3.5-beta7"/>
   <property name="halt.on.test.failure" value="true"/>
 
   <property name="jdk.version.source" value="1.5"
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 0bd2ac472..a19341c35 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -31,9 +31,10 @@
         <person id="YK" name="Yegor Kozlov" email="yegor@apache.org"/>
     </developers>
 
-	<!-- Don't forget to update changes.xml too! -->
     <changes>
-        <release version="3.5-beta6" date="2009-??-??">
+        <release version="3.5-beta7" date="2009-??-??">
+        </release>
+        <release version="3.5-beta6" date="2009-01-11">
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">47069 - Fixed HSSFSheet#getFirstRowNum and HSSFSheet#getLastRowNum to return correct values after removal of all rows</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">47278 - Fixed XSSFCell to avoid generating xsi:nil entries in shared string table</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="fix">47206 - Fixed XSSFCell to properly read inline strings</action>