diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index eff8d50..433dbed 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@
 
 # This is the *documentation* release, and is used to construct the file
 # names of the downloadable tarballs.
-RELEASE=2.2b2
+RELEASE=2.2b2+
 
 PYTHON=	   python
 DVIPS=	   dvips -N0 -t $(PAPER)
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index 06466cf..30e2f1f 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 	Email: \email{python-docs@python.org}
 }
 
-\date{November 16, 2001}	% XXX update before release!
+\date{\today}			% XXX update before release!
 \release{2.2}			% software release, not documentation
-\setreleaseinfo{b2}		% empty for final release
+\setreleaseinfo{b2+}		% empty for final release
 \setshortversion{2.2}		% major.minor only for software