diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index bfcf18c..84a2570 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@
 	E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
 }
 
-\date{September 12, 2000}			% XXX update before release!
-\release{2.0b1.1}
+\date{\today}				% XXX update before release!
+\release{2.0b1}				% software release, not documentation
+\setshortversion{2.0}			% major.minor only for Python