diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 360be03..46ebf90 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -24,10 +24,10 @@
 #define PY_MINOR_VERSION	6
 #define PY_MICRO_VERSION	0
 #define PY_RELEASE_LEVEL	PY_RELEASE_LEVEL_BETA
-#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
+#define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	2
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"2.6b1+"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"2.6b2"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index a192357..06ec0d4b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -22,5 +22,5 @@
 #
 
 #--start constants--
-__version__ = "2.6b1"
+__version__ = "2.6b2"
 #--end constants--
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index 5c5edb7..4951b87 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "2.6b1"
+IDLE_VERSION = "2.6b2"
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
index 540df83..3a765fb 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-2.6.spec
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
 
 %define name python
 #--start constants--
-%define version 2.6b1
+%define version 2.6b2
 %define libver 2.6
 #--end constants--
 %define release 1pydotorg
diff --git a/README b/README
index 17e248c..57b7c45 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-This is Python version 2.6 beta 1
+This is Python version 2.6 beta 2
 =================================
 
 Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008