diff --git a/VERSION.txt b/VERSION.txt
index 166374aaf7d..f36e60fb12e 100644
--- a/VERSION.txt
+++ b/VERSION.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Sage version 7.1, released 2016-03-20
+Sage version 7.2.beta0, released 2016-03-24
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
index 5a49672acf2..825151811e9 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/checksums.ini
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 tarball=configure-VERSION.tar.gz
-sha1=c1dbf776efe95f87dc90fda5dd290217bb3745eb
-md5=975cd51bccffbf7eea7d7df6d50808c3
-cksum=184671045
+sha1=195df1ea1be9cb31ff40e367a2f059f2d94da443
+md5=e9f6023b1d841bef10836f5046398e45
+cksum=1859203132
diff --git a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
index 492dff089af..7f1ddd5301b 100644
--- a/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
+++ b/build/pkgs/configure/package-version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-152
+153
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-banner b/src/bin/sage-banner
index 7fa762a0ac1..529f8655e10 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-banner
+++ b/src/bin/sage-banner
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 ┌────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
-│ SageMath Version 7.1, Release Date: 2016-03-20                     │
+│ SageMath Version 7.2.beta0, Release Date: 2016-03-24               │
 │ Type "notebook()" for the browser-based notebook interface.        │
 │ Type "help()" for help.                                            │
 └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
+┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
+┃ Warning: this is a prerelease version, and it may be unstable.     ┃
+┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛
diff --git a/src/bin/sage-version.sh b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
index 7cbe276ad32..5af00e4567a 100644
--- a/src/bin/sage-version.sh
+++ b/src/bin/sage-version.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for shell scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-SAGE_VERSION='7.1'
-SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2016-03-20'
+SAGE_VERSION='7.2.beta0'
+SAGE_RELEASE_DATE='2016-03-24'
diff --git a/src/sage/version.py b/src/sage/version.py
index 8b704a634ca..3e463dbb5e5 100644
--- a/src/sage/version.py
+++ b/src/sage/version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # Sage version information for Python scripts
 # This file is auto-generated by the sage-update-version script, do not edit!
-version = '7.1'
-date = '2016-03-20'
+version = '7.2.beta0'
+date = '2016-03-24'