diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index e881f8ce..1c42d2cd 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # and http://www.bioinf.uni-freiburg.de/~mmann/HowTo/automake.html
 
 AC_PREREQ([2.69])
-AC_INIT([BULK_EXTRACTOR],[2.0.0-beta2],[bugs@digitalcorpora.org])
+AC_INIT([BULK_EXTRACTOR],[2.0.0-beta3],[bugs@digitalcorpora.org])
 AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR(m4)
 AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([build-aux])
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