diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 4b7482a9b719..79198c4e7838 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 What's New in IDLE 1.1b2?
 =========================
 
-*Release date: DD-MMM-2004*
+*Release date: 03-NOV-2004*
 
 - When paragraph reformat width was made configurable, a bug was
   introduced that caused reformatting of comment blocks to ignore how
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index 8bceaf87d16a..d1092fa7253a 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "1.1a3"
+IDLE_VERSION = "1.1b2"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a75dff1b44d2..e2b193727704 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Python News
 What's New in Python 2.4 beta 2?
 ================================
 
-*Release date: XX-XXX-XXXX*
+*Release date: 03-NOV-2004*
 
 License
 -------
diff --git a/Misc/RPM/python-2.4.spec b/Misc/RPM/python-2.4.spec
index 0f1dbd574ad9..9bfdf4063e96 100644
--- a/Misc/RPM/python-2.4.spec
+++ b/Misc/RPM/python-2.4.spec
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
 #################################
 
 %define name python
-%define version 2.4b1
+%define version 2.4b2
 %define libvers 2.4
 %define release 1pydotorg
 %define __prefix /usr