From 135e73e704164656686f9d0e8736842e6a9d5f93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philipp Wolfer <ph.wolfer@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2023 11:56:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Release 2.9.0b2

---
 NEWS.md            | 13 +++++++++++++
 picard/__init__.py |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 11cd30ee15..47fa968e9c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# Version 2.9.0b2 - 2023-06-15
+
+## Bugfixes
+
+- [PICARD-2481](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2481) - Shorten long country lists in search results
+- [PICARD-2651](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2651) - Repeated / duplicate log lines on console output
+
+## Improvements
+
+- [PICARD-2653](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2653) - Update alias locales for updated server list
+- [PICARD-2654](https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/PICARD-2654) - Show error message on rating submission failure due to server error
+
+
 # Version 2.9.0b1 - 2023-05-31
 
 ## Bug Fixes
diff --git a/picard/__init__.py b/picard/__init__.py
index 8ea076ae7e..130fc8f989 100644
--- a/picard/__init__.py
+++ b/picard/__init__.py
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 PICARD_DISPLAY_NAME = "MusicBrainz Picard"
 PICARD_APP_ID = "org.musicbrainz.Picard"
 PICARD_DESKTOP_NAME = PICARD_APP_ID + ".desktop"
-PICARD_VERSION = Version(2, 9, 0, 'beta', 1)
+PICARD_VERSION = Version(2, 9, 0, 'beta', 2)
 
 
 # optional build version