diff --git a/lib/jekyll/version.rb b/lib/jekyll/version.rb
index 91ff7408..8b67d1cf 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/version.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/version.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 module Jekyll
-  VERSION = '2.5.3'
+  VERSION = '3.0.0-beta1'
 end
diff --git a/site/_posts/2015-01-24-jekyll-3-0-0-beta1-released.markdown b/site/_posts/2015-01-24-jekyll-3-0-0-beta1-released.markdown
index 28d4948a..49b35b77 100644
--- a/site/_posts/2015-01-24-jekyll-3-0-0-beta1-released.markdown
+++ b/site/_posts/2015-01-24-jekyll-3-0-0-beta1-released.markdown
@@ -15,10 +15,14 @@ to get a feel for what changes are afoot. Key features:
 
 1. **Speed.** Jekyll now features incremental regeneration and greatly
    improved problematic code that caused slow-downs.
-2. **Reduced dependencies.** Hate installing 20 gems every time you want
-   Jekyll? Us too. So we stripped it down to 5 -- the bare essentials.
-3. Gobs of bugfixes and customization.
-4. Uniformity and sanity to Jekyll extensions of Liquid.
+2. Gobs of bugfixes and customization.
+3. Uniformity and sanity to Jekyll extensions of Liquid.
+
+To install just run:
+
+{% highlight bash %}
+$ gem install jekyll --pre
+{% endhighlight %}
 
 Future versions will include [some awesome new
 features](https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll/issues/3324) that we haven't