diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index e296dbd..3e35d1f 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
 	E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
 }
 
-\date{April 15, 2001}		% XXX update before release!
-\release{2.1}			% software release, not documentation
-\setshortversion{2.1}		% major.minor only for software
+\date{\today}			% XXX update before release!
+\release{2.2a0}			% software release, not documentation
+\setshortversion{2.2}		% major.minor only for software