diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 97f3474..8f96ab7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,20 @@ This small web application is intended to highlight how to operationalize machin
 
 The image used in this README, [Partisan Fail][partisan.jpg] by [David Colarusso](https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcolarusso/) is licensed under [CC BY-NC 2.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/)
 
+## Changelog
+
+The release versions that are deployed to the web servers are also tagged in GitHub. You can see the tags through the GitHub web application and download the tarball of the version you'd like.
+
+The versioning uses a three part version system, "a.b.c" - "a" represents a major release that may not be backwards compatible. "b" is incremented on minor releases that may contain extra features, but are backwards compatible. "c" releases are bug fixes or other micro changes that developers should feel free to immediately update to.
+
+### Version 0.1 Beta 1
+
+* **tag**: [v0.1b1](https://github.com/DistrictDataLabs/partisan-discourse/releases/tag/v0.1b1)
+* **deployment**: Monday, July 18, 2016
+* **commit**: [see tag](#)
+
+This is the first beta release of the Political Discourse application. Right now this simple web application allows users to sign in, then add links to go fetch web content to the global corpus. These links are then preprocessed using NLP foo. Users can tag the documents as Republican or Democrat, allowing us to build a political classifier. 
+
 <!-- References -->
 [travis_img]: https://travis-ci.org/DistrictDataLabs/partisan-discourse.svg
 [travis_href]: https://travis-ci.org/DistrictDataLabs/partisan-discourse
diff --git a/partisan/tests/test_init.py b/partisan/tests/test_init.py
index da3e7cc..323b710 100644
--- a/partisan/tests/test_init.py
+++ b/partisan/tests/test_init.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 ## Module variables
 ##########################################################################
 
-EXPECTED_VERSION = "0.1"
+EXPECTED_VERSION = "0.1b1"
 
 ##########################################################################
 ## Initialization Tests
diff --git a/partisan/version.py b/partisan/version.py
index 297fc3b..d79a239 100644
--- a/partisan/version.py
+++ b/partisan/version.py
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@
     'major': 0,
     'minor': 1,
     'micro': 0,
-    'releaselevel': 'final',
-    'serial': 0,
+    'releaselevel': 'beta',
+    'serial': 1,
 }