diff --git a/build/version.go b/build/version.go
index fe212cd6a7..9ddb6b8c36 100644
--- a/build/version.go
+++ b/build/version.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ const (
 
 	// AppPreRelease MUST only contain characters from semanticAlphabet per
 	// the semantic versioning spec.
-	AppPreRelease = "beta.rc1"
+	AppPreRelease = "beta"
 )
 
 func init() {