diff --git a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/CHANGELOG.md
index fa522e9c5bf0..373565873ba5 100644
--- a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Release History
 
-## 5.0.1 (Unreleased)
+## 5.1.0b1 (Unreleased)
 
 **New features**
 - We are now targeting the service's v3.1-preview.1 API as the default. If you would like to still use version v3.0 of the service,
diff --git a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/azure/ai/textanalytics/_version.py b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/azure/ai/textanalytics/_version.py
index 715b122ebe53..40d5e79e323a 100644
--- a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/azure/ai/textanalytics/_version.py
+++ b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/azure/ai/textanalytics/_version.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 # ------------------------------------
 
-VERSION = "5.0.1"
+VERSION = "5.1.0b1"
diff --git a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/setup.py b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/setup.py
index 8eca54ff849d..46f83113c5dd 100644
--- a/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/setup.py
+++ b/sdk/textanalytics/azure-ai-textanalytics/setup.py
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
     author_email='azpysdkhelp@microsoft.com',
     url='https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python',
     classifiers=[
-        "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable",
+        "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
         'Programming Language :: Python',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
         'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',