diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index be81f57aa..39a214658 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@
 // +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ //
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-0.10.3.1307_alpha
\ No newline at end of file
+0.10.3.1308_pre_beta
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cake/libs/view/templates/layouts/default.thtml b/cake/libs/view/templates/layouts/default.thtml
index 26692acfd..3b6688529 100644
--- a/cake/libs/view/templates/layouts/default.thtml
+++ b/cake/libs/view/templates/layouts/default.thtml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
   	<div id="pb-cake">
 	  	&copy; 2005 CakePHP ::
 	  	<a href="https://trac.cakephp.org/wiki/Authors">CakePHP Developers and Authors</a>
-	  	<p>CakePHP version 0.10.3.1307_alpha</p>
+	  	<p>CakePHP version 0.10.3.1308_pre_beta</p>
   		<a href="http://www.cakephp.org/" target="_new" class="simple">
 			<?php echo $html->image('cake.power.png', array('alt'=>"CakePHP : Rapid Development Framework", 'border'=>"0"))?>
 		</a>
diff --git a/cake/libs/view/templates/pages/home.thtml b/cake/libs/view/templates/pages/home.thtml
index 7b4338489..ba4a1c3f6 100644
--- a/cake/libs/view/templates/pages/home.thtml
+++ b/cake/libs/view/templates/pages/home.thtml
@@ -32,9 +32,9 @@
  */
 ?>
 <br/>
-<h1>Cake <em>Alpha</em> is sooo tasty</h1>
+<h1>Cake <em>Pre Beta</em> mmmmm good</h1>
 <p>
-The Alpha release is exciting. We changed quite a few things, but hope you agree with 
+The Pre Beta release is exciting. We changed quite a few things, but hope you agree with 
 our efforts to make the code easier to read and handle. 
 It all comes back to our desire to make the best RAD framework available. 
 </p>