diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index be7159578db3ffe382ba5570005b65bedc337e86..a1debcc9eb0f8c67dfbef8ec702444270b9b2abd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 News
 ====
 
-Version 2.5.0 beta1
+Version 2.5.0 beta2
 -------------------
 
-*(Released Fri, 12 Aug 2011)*
+*(unreleased)*
 
 Incompatible/important changes and bugfixes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ New features
 - ``gnt-instance info`` defaults to static information if primary node
   is offline.
 - Opcodes have a new ``comment`` attribute.
+- Added basic SPICE support to KVM hypervisor.
 
 Node group improvements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -127,6 +128,14 @@ Misc
 - DRBD metadata volumes are overwritten with zeros during disk creation.
 
 
+Version 2.5.0 beta1
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Fri, 12 Aug 2011)*
+
+This was the first beta release of the 2.5 series.
+
+
 Version 2.4.3
 -------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 601adfce8661144114ceaf2d8548c425171831cd..25491a1651201551e73ca1aa5a40e8a57a1a47bc 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 m4_define([gnt_version_major], [2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_minor], [5])
 m4_define([gnt_version_revision], [0])
-m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta1])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta2])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,