diff --git a/mkdocs/__init__.py b/mkdocs/__init__.py
index 7a1a758e..3ac4f505 100644
--- a/mkdocs/__init__.py
+++ b/mkdocs/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 # For acceptable version formats, see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0440/
-__version__ = '1.0a1'
+__version__ = '1.0b1'