Bumping to 2.6b1
diff --git a/README b/README
index 8f53ca4..17e248c 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This is Python version 2.6 alpha 3
-==================================
+This is Python version 2.6 beta 1
+=================================
 
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
 Python Software Foundation.