Bump the release information.
diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index 6ac0b07..b9566eb 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=2.3a2
+RELEASE=2.3b1
PYTHON= python
DVIPS= dvips -N0 -t $(PAPER)
diff --git a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
index d406c0d..1da0c68 100644
--- a/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
+++ b/Doc/texinputs/boilerplate.tex
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
Email: \email{python-docs@python.org}
}
-\date{\today} % XXX update before release!
+\date{\today} % XXX update before final release!
\release{2.3} % software release, not documentation
-\setreleaseinfo{a2} % empty for final release
+\setreleaseinfo{b1} % empty for final release
\setshortversion{2.3} % major.minor only for software