From 8130bba7b4a22df5c775b9a1439d2d5370d349e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:23:49 -0400
Subject: build: version 5.6b1

---
 CHANGES.rst | 6 ++++--
 doc/conf.py | 6 +++---
 howto.txt   | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
index 63b0125f..900da731 100644
--- a/CHANGES.rst
+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ want to know what's different in 5.0 since 4.5.x, see :ref:`whatsnew5x`.
     ..  Version 9.8.1 --- 2027-07-27
     ..  ----------------------------
 
-Unreleased
-----------
+.. _changes_56b1:
+
+Version 5.6b1 --- 2021-04-13
+----------------------------
 
 - Third-party packages are now ignored in coverage reporting.  This solves a
   few problems:
diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index bb20561a..249e123b 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ copyright = u'2009\N{EN DASH}2021, Ned Batchelder.'     # CHANGEME  # pylint: di
 # built documents.
 #
 # The short X.Y version.
-version = "5.5"                                 # CHANGEME
+version = "5.6"                                 # CHANGEME
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = "5.5"                                 # CHANGEME
+release = "5.6b1"                               # CHANGEME
 # The date of release, in "monthname day, year" format.
-release_date = "February 28, 2021"              # CHANGEME
+release_date = "April 13, 2021"                 # CHANGEME
 
 rst_epilog = """
 .. |release_date| replace:: {release_date}
diff --git a/howto.txt b/howto.txt
index 318b8bc5..5568a70b 100644
--- a/howto.txt
+++ b/howto.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
     - IF NOT PRE-RELEASE:
         $ rm -f ~/coverage/trunk/doc/sample_html/*.*
         $ cp -r htmlcov/ ~/coverage/trunk/doc/sample_html/
-    cd ~/coverage/trunk
+    $ cd ~/coverage/trunk
     - IF NOT PRE-RELEASE:
         check in the new sample html
 - Done with changes to source files, check them in.
-- 
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