diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a8642a4..f3fd7f5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # QEmacs, tiny but powerful multimode editor
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Fabrice Bellard.
-# Copyright (c) 2000-2017 Charlie Gordon.
+# Copyright (c) 2000-2018 Charlie Gordon.
 #
 # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index a23cd2a..dfba703 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.5.0dev
+5.0beta
diff --git a/clang.c b/clang.c
index a9ae944..188b9a7 100644
--- a/clang.c
+++ b/clang.c
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
  * C mode for QEmacs.
  *
  * Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Fabrice Bellard.
- * Copyright (c) 2002-2017 Charlie Gordon.
+ * Copyright (c) 2002-2018 Charlie Gordon.
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
diff --git a/htmlsrc.c b/htmlsrc.c
index 5d0c8a4..0d2f2ef 100644
--- a/htmlsrc.c
+++ b/htmlsrc.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * HTML Source mode for QEmacs.
  *
- * Copyright (c) 2000-2017 Charlie Gordon.
+ * Copyright (c) 2000-2018 Charlie Gordon.
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
diff --git a/qe.c b/qe.c
index 62fdaa9..937fcb9 100644
--- a/qe.c
+++ b/qe.c
@@ -8551,7 +8551,7 @@ void qe_register_cmd_line_options(CmdLineOptionDef *table)
 
 const char str_version[] = "QEmacs version " QE_VERSION;
 const char str_credits[] = "Copyright (c) 2000-2003 Fabrice Bellard\n"
-                           "Copyright (c) 2000-2017 Charlie Gordon\n";
+                           "Copyright (c) 2000-2018 Charlie Gordon\n";
 
 static void show_version(void)
 {