diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 14980eedfc..ce8ad78e87 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
-Changes in 3.7.0beta1
-2018-06-25
-
+Changes in 3.7.0beta2
+2018-08-06
+Changes since 3.7.0beta1
+  - Fix infinite loop in GEOSClipByRect (#865, Dan Baston)
+  - Make GEOSException inherit from std::runtime_error 
+    to address clang warnings (Dan Baston)
+
+3.7.0 changes
 - New things:
   - CAPI: GEOSDistanceIndexed (#795, Dan Baston)
   - CAPI: GEOSCoordSeq_isCCW (#870, Dan Baston)
@@ -26,6 +31,10 @@ Changes in 3.7.0beta1
   - Fix CommonBits::getBit to correctly handle i >= 32
     (#834, Kurt Schwehr)
 
+Changes in 3.7.0beta1
+2018-06-25
+See 3.7.0 latest notes
+
 Changes in 3.7.0alpha
 2018-06-14
 See 3.7.0 notes
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 556137c837..288aecb825 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ dnl -- encoding ABI break at every release
 dnl
 VERSION_MAJOR=3
 VERSION_MINOR=7
-VERSION_PATCH=0beta1
+VERSION_PATCH=0beta2
 VERSION="$VERSION_MAJOR.$VERSION_MINOR.$VERSION_PATCH"
 VERSION_RELEASE=`echo "$VERSION" | sed -E 's/^([[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+]).*?$/\1/'`