diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 40a985576..715ed897b 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ AC_PREREQ([2.60])
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, 1)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, 0)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION, 0)
-define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 0)
+define(_CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD, 1)
 define(_CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE, false)
 define(_COPYRIGHT_YEAR, 2016)
 AC_INIT([Zcash],[_CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR._CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR._CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION],[https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues],[zcash])
diff --git a/doc/README.md b/doc/README.md
index bd54994e6..004348832 100644
--- a/doc/README.md
+++ b/doc/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Zcash Core 1.0.0-beta1
+Zcash Core 1.0.0-beta2
 ====================
 
 [Zcash](https://z.cash/) is the Zcash client. It downloads and stores the entire history of Zcash transactions; depending on the speed of your computer and network connection, the synchronization process could take a day or more once the blockchain has reached a significant size.
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.0-beta2.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.0-beta2.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90d9286a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.0-beta2.md
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+Alfie John (2):
+      Typo in params README
+      Updating wording to match Beta Guide
+
+Bryan Stitt (1):
+      Link to beta guide
+
+Daira Hopwood (9):
+      Benchmark 50 iterations of solveequihash
+      Remove FindAndDelete. refs #1386
+      Update my email address in the Code of Conduct.
+      Repair FormatSubVersion tests. refs #1138
+      WIP: update address prefixes. refs #812
+      Reencode keys in JSON test data. refs #812
+      CBitcoinAddress should use nVersionBytes == 2.
+      Repair bitcoin-util-test.
+      Repair rpc-tests/signrawtransactions.py.
+
+Gregory Maxwell (1):
+      Limit setAskFor and retire requested entries only when a getdata returns.
+
+Jack Grigg (43):
+      Add support for encrypting spending keys
+      Check we haven't trashed the first key entry with the second
+      Move serialized Zcash address length constants into zcash/Address.hpp
+      Measure multithreaded solveequihash time per-thread
+      Add a make command for checking expected failures
+      Enable high-priority alerts to put the RPC into safe mode
+      Fix test
+      Add wallet method to clear the note witness cache
+      Clear note witness caches on reindex
+      Write note witness cache atomically to disk to avoid corruption
+      Test that invalid keys fail to unlock the keystore
+      Implement CSecureDataStream for streaming CKeyingMaterial
+      Cache note decryptors in encrypted keystore
+      Use correct lock for spending keys
+      Upgrade Boost to 1.62.0
+      Upgrade libgmp to 6.1.1
+      Upgrade OpenSSL to 1.1.0b
+      Upgrade miniupnpc to 2.0
+      Upgrade ccache to 3.3.1
+      Release process: check dependencies for updates
+      Fix auto_ptr deprecation warning in Boost
+      Replace auto_ptr with unique_ptr
+      Re-enable disabled compiler warnings
+      Disable nearly everything in OpenSSL
+      Add libsnark to pre-release dependency checks
+      Assert that new OpenSSL allocators succeed
+      Remove no-autoalginit and no-autoerrinit OpenSSL flags
+      Use asserts to check allocation errors in CECKey::Recover
+      Simplify ClearNoteWitnessCache()
+      Add tests for alerts enabling RPC safe mode
+      Ensure correctness if asserts are compiled out
+      Disable OP_CODESEPARATOR
+      Remove OP_CODESEPARATOR from tests
+      Downgrade bdb to 5.3.28
+      Use CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD to represent -beta and -rc in client version
+      Update release process with version schema
+      Formatting fix
+      Mark previously-valid test data as invalid
+      Re-encode hard-coded addresses in tests
+      Re-encode Founders' Reward keys
+      Fix secp256k1 test compilation
+      Fix zkey test
+      Update address in Founders' Reward gtest
+
+Jay Graber (4):
+      Link to z.cash on security-warnings.md
+      Add section abt confs and reorgs to security-warnings.md
+      Update wording
+      Final edits
+
+Kevin Gallagher (5):
+      Lock to prevent parallel execution of fetch-params.sh
+      Updates dns.testnet.z.cash -> dnsseed.testnet.z.cash
+      Verify TLS certificates w/ wget in fetch-params.sh
+      Inserts some notes related to testnet deployment
+      Adds note about updating guide during testnet deployment
+
+Pieter Wuille (1):
+      Fix and improve relay from whitelisted peers
+
+Robert C. Seacord (1):
+      Changes to upgrade bdb to 6.2.23
+
+Sean Bowe (1):
+      Update to `beta2` public parameters, remove `regtest`/`testnet3` parameters     subdirectories.
+
+Simon (20):
+      Replace %i format specifier with more commonly used %d.
+      Fix GetFilteredNotes to use int for minDepth like upstream and avoid casting problems. Don't use FindMyNotes as mapNoteData has already been set on wallet tx.
+      Update test to filter and find notes.
+      Add support for spending keys to the encrypted wallet.
+      Update to use new API in CCryptoKeyStore and store a viewing key in walletdb.
+      Fix comment and formatting per review
+      Add founders reward to ChainParams.     Fix bug where subsidy slow shift was ignored.
+      Founders reward: changed index computation, added new test and some refactoring.
+      Founders reward: Refactor test and formatting per review.
+      Refactor to add test to verify number of rewards each mainnet address will receive
+      Refactor and fix per review
+      Update comment per review
+      Update founders reward test to output path of temporary wallet.dat file which contains keys which can be used for testing founders reward addresses.
+      Update testnet founders reward addresses
+      Add mainnet 2-of-3 multisig addresses for testing.
+      Add field fMinerTestModeForFoundersRewardScript to chainparams
+      Update mainnet addresses used for testing to have the correct number
+      Fixes #1345 so that UTXO debit and credits are computed correctly for a transaction.
+      Closes #1371 by updating signed message
+      Modify message string so we don't need to backport commits which implement FormatStateMessage and GetDebugMessage and involve changes to consensus/validation.h
+
+Wladimir J. van der Laan (1):
+      build: remove libressl check
+
+fanquake (1):
+      [depends] OpenSSL 1.0.1k - update config_opts
+
+kazcw (1):
+      prevent peer flooding request queue for an inv
+
diff --git a/src/chainparams.cpp b/src/chainparams.cpp
index e50593492..8446993ce 100644
--- a/src/chainparams.cpp
+++ b/src/chainparams.cpp
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@ public:
         consensus.powLimit = uint256S("0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f0f");
         assert(maxUint/UintToArith256(consensus.powLimit) >= consensus.nPowAveragingWindow);
         consensus.fPowAllowMinDifficultyBlocks = true;
-        pchMessageStart[0] = 0xA5;
-        pchMessageStart[1] = 0xF1;
-        pchMessageStart[2] = 0xE7;
-        pchMessageStart[3] = 0x26;
+        pchMessageStart[0] = 0x0C;
+        pchMessageStart[1] = 0x9E;
+        pchMessageStart[2] = 0xD7;
+        pchMessageStart[3] = 0xA2;
         vAlertPubKey = ParseHex("044e7a1553392325c871c5ace5d6ad73501c66f4c185d6b0453cf45dec5a1322e705c672ac1a27ef7cdaf588c10effdf50ed5f95f85f2f54a5f6159fca394ed0c6");
         nDefaultPort = 18233;
         nMinerThreads = 0;
diff --git a/src/clientversion.h b/src/clientversion.h
index 7d8447ffe..30059987e 100644
--- a/src/clientversion.h
+++ b/src/clientversion.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 #define CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR 1
 #define CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR 0
 #define CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION 0
-#define CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD 0
+#define CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD 1
 
 //! Set to true for release, false for prerelease or test build
 #define CLIENT_VERSION_IS_RELEASE false