diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a1b8f4e6d54..eca6265b5be 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 PHP                                                                        NEWS
 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
-?? ??? 200?, PHP 5.3.0 Alpha 2
+02 Sep 2008, PHP 5.3.0 Alpha 2
 - Removed special treatment of "/tmp" in sessions for open_basedir.
   Note: This undocumented behaviour was introduced in 5.2.2. (Alexey)
 - Removed shebang line check from CGI sapi (checked by scanner). (Dmitry)
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 185a5dbf72a..fb9bda663c1 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ AC_CONFIG_HEADER(main/php_config.h)
 PHP_MAJOR_VERSION=5
 PHP_MINOR_VERSION=3
 PHP_RELEASE_VERSION=0
-PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="alpha2-dev"
+PHP_EXTRA_VERSION="alpha2"
 PHP_VERSION="$PHP_MAJOR_VERSION.$PHP_MINOR_VERSION.$PHP_RELEASE_VERSION$PHP_EXTRA_VERSION"
 PHP_VERSION_ID=`expr [$]PHP_MAJOR_VERSION \* 10000 + [$]PHP_MINOR_VERSION \* 100 + [$]PHP_RELEASE_VERSION`
 
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index aa301ca1c9b..91db86fd5bd 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -3,6 +3,6 @@
 #define PHP_MAJOR_VERSION 5
 #define PHP_MINOR_VERSION 3
 #define PHP_RELEASE_VERSION 0
-#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "alpha2-dev"
-#define PHP_VERSION "5.3.0alpha2-dev"
+#define PHP_EXTRA_VERSION "alpha2"
+#define PHP_VERSION "5.3.0alpha2"
 #define PHP_VERSION_ID 50300