diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 87ba147fb4d..7dac28236c3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     "company": "Grafana Labs"
   },
   "name": "grafana",
-  "version": "5.3.0-pre1",
+  "version": "5.3.0-beta1",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
     "url": "http://github.com/grafana/grafana.git"