diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 43f92c34f65..0b31527bd0c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 PHP 4.0                                                                    NEWS
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+?? ?? ????, Version 4.0 Beta 4
+
+
 November 16 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3
 - Added substr_replace() function. (Andrei)
 - ucfirst()/ucwords() no longer modify arg1. (Thies)
diff --git a/main/php_version.h b/main/php_version.h
index 651fe3bbd79..abcfe084c47 100644
--- a/main/php_version.h
+++ b/main/php_version.h
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 /* automatically generated by configure */
 /* edit configure.in.in to change version number */
-#define PHP_VERSION "4.0b3"
+#define PHP_VERSION "4.0b4-dev"