diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index cd23f04e3..5fb7a3c8b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,17 +1,11 @@
-Release 1.7.0 beta2 (in development)
-====================================
-
-Dependencies
-------------
+Release 1.7.0 beta2 (released Jan 31, 2018)
+===========================================
 
 Incompatible changes
 --------------------
 
 * #4467: html theme: Rename ``csss`` block to ``css``
 
-Deprecated
-----------
-
 Features added
 --------------
 
@@ -35,9 +29,6 @@ Bugs fixed
 * #4230: slowdown in writing pages with sphinx 1.6
 * #4522: epub: document is not rebuilt even if config changed
 
-Testing
---------
-
 Release 1.7.0 beta1 (released Jan 15, 2018)
 ===========================================
 
diff --git a/sphinx/__init__.py b/sphinx/__init__.py
index 047f797a7..27760eefb 100644
--- a/sphinx/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/__init__.py
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ if 'PYTHONWARNINGS' not in os.environ:
 warnings.filterwarnings('ignore', "'U' mode is deprecated",
                         DeprecationWarning, module='docutils.io')
 
-__version__ = '1.7.0+'
-__released__ = '1.7.0'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
+__version__ = '1.7.0b2'
+__released__ = '1.7.0b2'  # used when Sphinx builds its own docs
 
 # version info for better programmatic use
 # possible values for 3rd element: 'alpha', 'beta', 'rc', 'final'