diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a259c959..9a7f7d01 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1337,7 +1337,7 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "fractal"
-version = "5.0.0-beta1"
+version = "5.0.0-beta2"
 dependencies = [
  "ashpd",
  "djb_hash",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index df449eaf..0fc5af13 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
 [package]
 name = "fractal"
-version = "5.0.0-beta1"
+version = "5.0.0-beta2"
 authors = ["Julian Sparber <julian@sparber.net>"]
 edition = "2021"
 rust-version = "1.70"
+publish = false
 
 [profile.release]
 debug = true
diff --git a/data/org.gnome.Fractal.metainfo.xml.in.in b/data/org.gnome.Fractal.metainfo.xml.in.in
index 4fa80137..712f39bb 100644
--- a/data/org.gnome.Fractal.metainfo.xml.in.in
+++ b/data/org.gnome.Fractal.metainfo.xml.in.in
@@ -51,6 +51,35 @@
   </content_rating>
 
   <releases>@development-release@
+    <release version="5~beta2" type="development" date="2023-08-17">
+      <description>
+        <p>Fractal 5.beta2 is the second beta release 🎉 since the rewrite of
+          Fractal to take advantage of GTK 4 and the Matrix Rust SDK, an effort
+          that started in March 2021.</p>
+        
+        <p>The most visible changes since Fractal 5.beta1 are:</p>
+        <ul>
+          <li>Editing text messages ✏️</li>
+          <li>Logging in with homeservers that don’t support auto-discovery 🧐
+            </li>
+          <li>A refactor of the login flow should avoid crashes when going back
+            at any step 🔙</li>
+          <li>Sometimes two day dividers 📅 would appear next to each other
+            without messages between them, this is now fixed</li>
+        </ul>
+
+        <p>Of course, there are a also a lot of less visible changes, notably a
+          lot of refactoring, 🐛 fixes and translations thanks to all our
+          contributors, and our upstream projects.</p>
+        
+        <p>As the version implies, this is still considered beta stage and might
+          trigger crashes or other bugs 😔 but overall should be pretty stable
+          👍.</p>
+        
+        <p>A list of blocking issues for the release of version 5 can be found
+          in the Fractal v5 milestone on GitLab.</p>
+      </description>
+    </release>
     <release version="5~beta1" type="development" date="2023-05-16">
       <description>
         <p>Fractal 5.beta1 is the first beta release since the rewrite of
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 8b29506f..aa4328c5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 project('fractal',
         'rust',
-        version: '5.beta1',
+        version: '5.beta2',
         license: 'GPL-3.0-or-later',
         meson_version: '>= 0.59')
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ gnome = import('gnome')
 base_id = 'org.gnome.Fractal'
 
 major_version = '5'
-pre_release_version = 'beta1'
+pre_release_version = 'beta2'
 
 dependency('glib-2.0', version: '>= 2.72') # update when changing gtk version
 dependency('gio-2.0', version: '>= 2.72') # always same version as glib