diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
index 70b3de691..51c06eb6f 100644
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 English README file for OpenSlides
 ==================================
 
-This is OpenSlides, version 1.4-alpha1 (2013-04-24).
+This is OpenSlides, version 1.4-beta1-dev (unreleased).
 
 
 What is OpenSlides?
diff --git a/openslides/__init__.py b/openslides/__init__.py
index bcf7f06cc..5337ddd89 100644
--- a/openslides/__init__.py
+++ b/openslides/__init__.py
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
     :license: GNU GPL, see LICENSE for more details.
 """
 
-VERSION = (1, 4, 0, 'alpha', 1)  # During development it is the next release
-RELEASE = True
+VERSION = (1, 4, 0, 'beta', 1)  # During development it is the next release
+RELEASE = False
 
 
 def get_version(version=None, release=None):