diff --git a/prism/src/prism/Version.java b/prism/src/prism/Version.java
index 0173ef90..e809c5cf 100644
--- a/prism/src/prism/Version.java
+++ b/prism/src/prism/Version.java
@@ -5,5 +5,5 @@ public class Version
 	/** PRISM version (e.g. "4.0.3"). Just a single string (will be extracted by scripts). */
 	public static String versionString = "4.2";
 	/** Optional PRISM version suffix (e.g. "dev", "beta"). Just a single string (will be extracted by scripts). */
-	public static String versionSuffixString = "";
+	public static String versionSuffixString = "beta1";
 }