diff --git a/ANNOUNCE.rst b/ANNOUNCE.rst
index 2c8aa72b..4bad11c7 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE.rst
+++ b/ANNOUNCE.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Hello!
 
-I'm pleased to announce version 3.4.0b1, the first beta
+I'm pleased to announce version 3.4.0b2, the first beta
 of release 3.4.0 of branch 3.4 of CheetahTemplate3.
 
 
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Site:
 https://cheetahtemplate.org/
 
 Download:
-https://pypi.org/project/CT3/3.4.0b1
+https://pypi.org/project/CT3/3.4.0b2
 
 News and changes:
 https://cheetahtemplate.org/news.html
diff --git a/Cheetah/Version.py b/Cheetah/Version.py
index 24018483..42f4ed79 100755
--- a/Cheetah/Version.py
+++ b/Cheetah/Version.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
-Version = '3.4.0b1'
-VersionTuple = (3, 4, 0, 'beta', 1)
+Version = '3.4.0b2'
+VersionTuple = (3, 4, 0, 'beta', 2)
 
 MinCompatibleVersion = '3.0.0a1'
 MinCompatibleVersionTuple = (3, 0, 0, 'alpha', 1)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index d714e988..b4dc64c9 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Cheetah Template 3.4.0b1
+Cheetah Template 3.4.0b2
 ========================
 
 Cheetah3 is a free and open source (MIT) Python template engine.
diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index 423dbf89..a6b4ef43 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 News
 ====
 
-3.4.0b1 (2024-11-10)
+3.4.0b2 (2024-11-10)
 --------------------
 
 Bug fixes: