diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index abece8810..cbbfde883 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ 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="3.5-beta2"/>
+  <property name="version.id" value="3.5-beta3"/>
   <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 c069267b7..269a13fd4 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/changes.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,11 @@
     </devs>
 
 		<!-- Don't forget to update status.xml too! -->
-        <release version="3.5.1-beta2" date="2008-??-??">
+<!--
+        <release version="3.5.1-beta3" date="2008-??-??">
+        </release>
+-->
+        <release version="3.5.1-beta2" date="2008-08-20">
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Support stripping XSSF header and footer fields (eg page number) out of header and footer text if required</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Add POIXMLPropertiesTextExtractor, which provides to the OOXML file formats a similar function to HPSF's HPSFPropertiesExtractor</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">45539 - Improve XWPFWordExtractor to extract headers and footers</action>
diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index b9b02cc64..b59455ebf 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -33,7 +33,11 @@
 
 	<!-- Don't forget to update changes.xml too! -->
     <changes>
-        <release version="3.5.1-beta2" date="2008-??-??">
+<!--
+        <release version="3.5.1-beta3" date="2008-??-??">
+        </release>
+-->
+        <release version="3.5.1-beta2" date="2008-08-20">
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Support stripping XSSF header and footer fields (eg page number) out of header and footer text if required</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">Add POIXMLPropertiesTextExtractor, which provides to the OOXML file formats a similar function to HPSF's HPSFPropertiesExtractor</action>
            <action dev="POI-DEVELOPERS" type="add">45539 - Improve XWPFWordExtractor to extract headers and footers</action>