From 12409067c202eaa4424e63f14266e3c4a5a9f907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 18:53:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] towards beta 2

---
 Include/patchlevel.h |  2 +-
 Misc/NEWS            | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Include/patchlevel.h b/Include/patchlevel.h
index 7f8324c99df..7227d8d309b 100644
--- a/Include/patchlevel.h
+++ b/Include/patchlevel.h
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 #define PY_RELEASE_SERIAL	1
 
 /* Version as a string */
-#define PY_VERSION      	"2.7b1"
+#define PY_VERSION      	"2.7b1+"
 /*--end constants--*/
 
 /* Subversion Revision number of this file (not of the repository) */
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7ddeff07d26..549d1b0401a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,18 @@ Python News
 
 (editors: check NEWS.help for information about editing NEWS using ReST.)
 
+What's New in Python beta 2?
+============================
+
+*Release date: XXXX-XX-XX*
+
+Core and Builtins
+-----------------
+
+Library
+-------
+
+
 What's New in Python 2.7 beta 1?
 ================================