Commit this so CVS doesn't keep noticing the next version number.
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index d0e2780..287e915 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,6 +5,6 @@
E-mail: \email{python-docs@python.org}
}
-\date{\today} % XXX update before release!
-\release{2.1 alpha} % software release, not documentation
+\date{\today} % XXX update before release!
+\release{2.1 beta 1} % software release, not documentation
\setshortversion{2.1} % major.minor only for software