diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9c6a1e398290ac5a2da6072400d0bb5b4a18b94f..2e7d18f38fa30f3c8b3a378ed8cd201c1c3b6c24 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 News
 ====
 
-Version 2.5.0 beta2
+Version 2.5.0 beta3
 -------------------
 
-*(Released Mon, 22 Aug 2011)*
+*(Released Wed, 31 Aug 2011)*
 
 Incompatible/important changes and bugfixes
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ New features
   is offline.
 - Opcodes have a new ``comment`` attribute.
 - Added basic SPICE support to KVM hypervisor.
+- ``tools/ganeti-listrunner`` allows passing of arguments to executable.
 
 Node group improvements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -128,6 +129,14 @@ Misc
 - DRBD metadata volumes are overwritten with zeros during disk creation.
 
 
+Version 2.5.0 beta2
+-------------------
+
+*(Released Mon, 22 Aug 2011)*
+
+This was the second beta release of the 2.5 series.
+
+
 Version 2.5.0 beta1
 -------------------
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 764a59093e2f17afe52dc6af86cba9161a5c3677..04352d8acaaca5c3e17905e1d667558935f402f9 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], [~beta2])
+m4_define([gnt_version_suffix], [~beta3])
 m4_define([gnt_version_full],
           m4_format([%d.%d.%d%s],
                     gnt_version_major, gnt_version_minor,