diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b0a0079..9ba47aa 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,4 +1,40 @@
 
+1.0.0-BETA1
+===========
+
+* Fix a potential crash when merging a New Operation and a Create File System
+  Operation.
+
+* Set extended partitions as busy as long as logical partitions inside them
+  are mounted.
+
+* Don't silently succeed  when unmounting a partition that cannot in fact be
+  unmounted because it has no mount points.
+
+* Prevent creating a new partition table on a device with mounted partitions.
+
+* Add tooltips to partition widgets.
+
+* Don't show cd/dvd readers or writers as devices even if libparted reports
+  them.
+
+* Add support for ext4.
+
+* Fix calculation of reserved/free blocks for ext2/3/4.
+
+* Output reason why a mount or unmount might have failed.
+
+* Fix minimum width for extended partitions in the partition table widget.
+
+* Fix a bug where a partition table just created would not disappear when the
+  operation to create it was undone.
+
+* Don't allow creating partitions smaller than the device's cylinder size.
+
+* Fix an error that could lead to some space (a few megabytes) between two
+  partitions being wasted.
+
+
 1.0.0-ALPHA2
 ============
 
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d306dac..31e45b1 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -25,10 +25,11 @@ set(CMAKE_BUILD_WITH_INSTALL_RPATH ON)
 set(VERSION_MAJOR "1")
 set(VERSION_MINOR "0")
 set(VERSION_RELEASE "0")
-set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-ALPHA2")
+set(VERSION_SUFFIX "-BETA1")
 set(VERSION ${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_RELEASE}${VERSION_SUFFIX})
 add_definitions(-D'VERSION="${VERSION}"')
 
+set(KDE_MIN_VERSION 4.1)
 find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
 
 find_package(MSGFMT REQUIRED)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e567d6f..0ed4225 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -11,10 +11,12 @@ and build it yourself or, preferably, install your distribution's packages
 libuuid: This is part of e2fsprogs, something you will most probably need
 anyway. Get the source and build it from
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2406 or, preferably,
-install your distribution's packages (again, don't forget the dev-package). 
+install your distribution's packages (again, don't forget the dev-package).
 
-KDE4: KDE4.0 will probably not work and has not been tested. Building with KDE4
-from SVN or with the KDE4.1 packages for Kubuntu Hardy from launchpad works.
+libblkid: Also part of e2fsprogs. See libuuid.
+
+KDE4: KDE 4.0 will not work. The minimum required version is 4.1.0. To build the
+documentation, you need 4.1.4 or 4.2.0.
 
 
 2. Configure
@@ -23,8 +25,8 @@ KDE Partition Manager is built with cmake, like most of KDE4 today. It is
 recommended to build out of tree: After unpacking the source, create a separate
 build directory and run cmake there:
 
-$ tar xfj partitionmanager-1.0.0-ALPHA2.tar.bz2
-$ cd partitionmanager-1.0.0-ALPHA2
+$ tar xfj partitionmanager-1.0.0-BETA1.tar.bz2
+$ cd partitionmanager-1.0.0-BETA1
 $ mkdir build
 $ cd build
 $ cmake ..
@@ -42,7 +44,7 @@ Just run make and make install in the build directory. The default install path
 is /usr/local, so installing will need write privileges there. You can
 configure a different install path by passing
 -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=<your_path> to cmake when configuring. To change the
-install path after configuring and building, run 
+install path after configuring and building, run
 
 $ ccmake .
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index 813596b..713b4d3 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -5,9 +5,10 @@ KDE Partition Manager
 
 WARNING
 
-KDE Partition Manager is currently in an early alpha development stage. The
-software is functional and has undergone some testing, but it does have known
-bugs and there is always a chance you might lose your data.
+KDE Partition Manager is a potentially dangerous program for your data. It has
+been tested carefully and there are currently no known bugs that could lead to
+data loss, but nevertheless there is always a chance for an error to ocurr and
+you might lose your data.
 
 BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE!
 
@@ -16,7 +17,7 @@ BACK UP YOUR DATA BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE!
 
 This software allows you to manage your disks, partitions and file systems:
 Create, resize, delete, copy, backup and restore partitions with a large number
-of supported file systems (ext2/3, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT32 and more).
+of supported file systems (ext2/3/4, reiserfs, NTFS, FAT32 and more).
 
 It is a KDE4 application, so you will need KDE4 libraries to run it on your
 computer. It also makes use of external programs to get its job done, so you