diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f47684ab6888e6f276c2dbd384cd1d34420b54d7..731367340eec661a205232cf6de7c44af2073692 100755
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,170 @@
+2013-04-03  c9f60a5                  [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 6.1.0beta1 (TYPO3 Release Team)
+2013-04-03  290ae49                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (TYPO3 Release Team)
+2013-04-03  aef7a21  #43291          [BUGFIX] BE login form gives warnings in RteHtmlParser (Jigal van Hemert)
+2013-04-02  b73314f                  [TASK] Clean up DatabaseConnection class (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-04-02  5cd8ec0  #46854          [TASK] Release installation procedure from LocalConfiguration file (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-04-02  1421f90                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (TYPO3 Release Team)
+2013-04-02  f2e104e  #46542          [FEATURE] Human readable names for special folders (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-04-02  565786a  #45699          [!!!][FEATURE] Implement pre- and post-hook around SELECT queries (Soren Malling)
+2013-04-01  f17717e                  [TASK] Remove explicit strict test from TypoScriptParserTest (Oliver Hader)
+2013-04-01  58db018  #46795          [!!!][BUGFIX] Scope of ProcessedFile cannot be modified (Oliver Hader)
+2013-04-01  207ddf3  #28741          [BUGFIX] Respect line breaks in stdWrap.cropHTML (Alexander Stehlik)
+2013-04-01  ad19f58  #46844          [BUGFIX][EM] TER repository page fails (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-04-01  12f7fc1  #46838          Revert "[TASK] Fix deprecated things in sysnote" (Alexander Schnitzler)
+2013-04-01  f11606c                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-04-01  c6f8fda  #46839          [TASK] Integrate basic TypoScript parsing test (Oliver Hader)
+2013-04-01  ccf835a                  [TASK] Adapt ArrayConstraints in IndexerTest (Steffen Ritter)
+2013-04-01  01fbf2e  #45982          [BUGFIX] PHP filesystem functions are locale dependent (Steffen Ritter)
+2013-04-01  024bc6c  #46596          [BUGFIX] IndexerService does not set creating user (Steffen Ritter)
+2013-04-01  96e325c  #24582          [BUGFIX] Accept alternative notations for setDBinit (Michael Stucki)
+2013-04-01  7516050  #46833          [BUGFIX] TypoScriptParserTest uses superfluous mock object (Oliver Hader)
+2013-04-01  cf8336a  #36719          [BUGFIX] Javascript for TMENU_LAYERS and GMENU_LAYERS missing (Michael Stucki)
+2013-03-31  856697f  #46824          [BUGFIX] MySQLi: FALSE not NULL from sql_fetch()/fetch_row() (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-31  eae3364  #28628          [FEATURE] Checkbox for confirmation in FormWizard (Florian Scholz)
+2013-03-31  f0b6ca5                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-31  995086f  #46625          [TASK] Remove unused FAL class ImageProcessingService (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-31  99cb5f1  #46373          [BUGFIX] Fix of Close-button in flash messages (Jost Baron)
+2013-03-31  0d34f7f  #46821          [TASK] Detect APC and APCu correctly (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-31  e831738  #44485          [BUGFIX] Sending fails on multiple email-addresses (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-31  4ef3d84  #46612          [FEATURE] Add wincache and zend to opcode cache check (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-31  fe3e0a8  #18211          [FEATURE] Support multiple display conditions in TCA (Jigal van Hemert)
+2013-03-31  23fe8e1  #46142          [FEATURE] Introduce xcache cache backend (Philipp Gampe)
+2013-03-31  b7ee51b  #45091          [FEATURE] TS-list: allow to unique, reverse and sort (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-31  cf17067  #46461          [TASK] Extract displayCond functionality from FormEngine to new class (Sebastian Michaelsen)
+2013-03-31  d830b43                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-30  b706dba  #46806          [BUGFIX] fetch_field_redirect returns object but not array (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-30  4a8277f                  [TASK] NEWS.txt entry about mysql to mysqli switch (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-30  3e30929  #46805          [BUGFIX] Integrity test fails (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-30  75d6db0  #46804          [TASK] Small cleanup in Typo3DatabaseBackend (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-30  cdb5026  #46802          [BUGFIX] Typo3DatabaseBackend get function does not return FALSE (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-30  b9129bf  #39622          [FEATURE] Add RequireJS to dynamically load JS files (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-30  61df9ce  #34403          [FEATURE] Add stdWrap feature: addPageCacheTags (Fabrizio Branca)
+2013-03-30  f0d8ed9  #36419          [TASK] Migrate core from mysql to mysqli (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-30  5921742                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-30  6db8629  #46768          [BUGFIX][Cache] Wincache backend class constructor (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-29  da19a09  #46773          [BUGFIX] Static addFlashMessage calls in extended file utility (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-29  bdd5c9e  #46772          [TASK] Clean up form protection tests (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-29  61b6d47  #46606          [WIP][TASK] Replace static calls to FlashMessageQueue (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-29  a4e0897                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-28  9306751  #43382          [TASK] Optimize clearing file backend caches (Oliver Hader)
+2013-03-28  7b65591  #46530          [!!!][BUGFIX] Crop-Scaled images have wrong file content type (Oliver Hader)
+2013-03-28  b7e3041  #46617          [FEATURE] Provide flushing cache by table and record tags (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-27  1e1c26a  #46535          [BUGFIX] Image rendering of non-existing files throws exception (Oliver Hader)
+2013-03-27  7aca24d  #46718          [BUGFIX] Wrong variable name used (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-26  98cfcf3  #46674          [TASK] NEWS.txt entry about fluid arrays in view helpers only (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  a5cfd74                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  0a24540  #45326          [TASK] NEWS.txt entry about extbase changed STI (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  1134fae  #38145          [TASK] Update Swiftmailer to 4.3.0 (Jigal van Hemert)
+2013-03-26  0ec4779  #46699          [TASK] Remove not maintained md5 in ext_emconf (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  bb6c020                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  3e329e8                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  d4fc9b4  #43410          [BUGFIX] Remove needless "x " on TER-search (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-26  7af6dad  #46696          [BUGFIX] System environment report always says warning (Philipp Gampe)
+2013-03-26  baf5860  #46584          [BUGFIX] Segfaults on object comparisons (Andreas Wolf)
+2013-03-26  3e65a91  #38163          [FEATURE] Allow stdWrap on form-element-defaultvalues (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-26  3b0f8e0                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-26  3621e60  #46250          [BUGFIX] Exception with EXT:sys_note is installed (Oliver Hader)
+2013-03-25  6a41c53                  Revert "[BUGFIX] TSConfig for fields with a dot in the name does not work" (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-25  e1b5fa4  #46110          [FEATURE] Option to disable exports (csv / t3d) in dblist (Kai Vogel)
+2013-03-25  c9dbea1  #29461          [BUGFIX] TSConfig for fields with a dot in the name does not work (Kai Vogel)
+2013-03-25  4d47e88  #44593          [FEATURE] Introduce service to handle multiple flash message queues (Alexander Schnitzler)
+2013-03-24  3982b75                  [TASK] Fix failing unit tests for LocalDriver (Andreas Wolf)
+2013-03-24  5a5f4aa  #46575          [BUGFIX] Error in filelist for Storage context menu (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-24  8feaf17  #20793          [FEATURE] Add splitChar to noTrimWrap (Jigal van Hemert)
+2013-03-24  f6e8576  #46604          [BUGFIX] Default upload folder should be user_upload/ (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-24  3053d0e  #44288          [FEATURE] Add delete button in file list (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-24  b4bdc27  #46587          [BUGFIX] Resource storage does not emit signals (Andreas Wolf)
+2013-03-24  01cc42b  #46603          [BUGFIX] Folder Tree does not respect _temp_ and _recycler_ (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-24  60c80a2  #43939          [BUG] sys_file_reference: missing exclude fields for Non-Admins (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-23  b240754  #46568          [BUGFIX] Subfolders must use the identifier as identifier (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-23  74b3bae  #46599          [BUGFIX] Remove old require_once in index_ts.php (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-23  89e2c34  #46593          [TASK] Remove unneeded backupGlobals from Unit Tests (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-23  dd7cea5  #46497          [BUGFIX] FAL Upgrade Wizards do not set pid (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-23  73ee6ff  #46555          [BUGFIX] Settings for local drivers are not shown by default (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-23  a9538cd  #46564          [BUGFIX] Copy and move folders between storages is broken (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-23  26e634f  #46588          [BUGFIX][EM] Fix failing unit tests (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-23  c0652b5  #46573          [BUGFIX][EM] Fix of last update time after update (Jost Baron)
+2013-03-22  6625619  #46532          [BUGFIX] Title includes html tags (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-22  b380f9b  #46551          [BUGFIX] Context menu for offline storages raises exception (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-22  c5db57a  #46569          [TASK][EM] Truncate table if updating extension list (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-22  bf8ba72  #46156          [BUGFIX] Warning empty $GLOBALS['TCA'] in rootline utility (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-22  ced52d8  #46524          [TASK][EM] More readable "time since last update"-strings (Jost Baron)
+2013-03-22  49117d8  #44732          [BUGFIX] fallbackRendering is always called (Simon Schaufelberger)
+2013-03-22  c430cef  #46435          [TASK] Small clean up in the page tree code (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2013-03-22  4e7656f  #45503          [TASK] Update file type according to Iana standard (Fabien Udriot)
+2013-03-22  41af677  #46308          [TASK] thumbs.php ease require/include path (Felix Kopp)
+2013-03-22  83f6961  #36792          [BUGFIX] Update sys_refindex to reflect typolink to file in RTE content (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-22  3644020  #46510          [TASK] Remove Flash Uploader Functionality (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-22  b8bd34d  #46541          [BUGFIX] Sorting files in filelist is case sentive (Nicole Cordes)
+2013-03-22  5eab791  #46547          [TASK] Remove unneded text in Install-Tool (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-22  0fc6d8c  #46546          Improve rendering of "System environment check" (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-22  6a4a33d                  [TASK] Small cleanup in Boostrap.php (Michael Stucki)
+2013-03-21  d04f18f  #44763          [TASK] Remove deprecated code (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-21  6cfed69  #39137          [TASK] Remove deprecated code (Markus Klein)
+2013-03-21  e434c7b                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-21  22b0e87                  [TASK] Remove deleted file reference from legacy index (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-21  9c20e15                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-21  cab7ef2                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-21  d3f0bde                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-20  6b11059  #46469          [!!!][-FEATURE] Remove ext:statictemplates (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-20  cec543f                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-20  75fb661  #45140          [BUGFIX] Fix .zip-export on windows and add unit test (Jost Baron)
+2013-03-20  e68a0d4  #46075          [BUGFIX] ExtDirectApi uses an undefined variable (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2013-03-20  4c6d772  #46455          [BUGFIX][EM] Get extension show spinner icon in upper right table (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-20  75a5e6d                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-20  e34a12f  #46451          [TASK] NEWS.txt entry about removed f:form inline styling (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-19  372cd21  #46358          [TASK] Separate ext:statictemplates code from core (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-19  8297773  #36405          [BUGFIX] Usage of deprecated returnFilemounts() (Markus Klein)
+2013-03-19  987f8e4  #46077          [BUGFIX] BELog module error: "vsprintf(): Too few arguments" (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2013-03-19  d813bd8  #21389          [FEATURE] Hardcoded CLI arguments from $_SERVER vars (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-19  8b8118f  #45937          [TASK] Deprecate class FE_loadDBGroup (Thorsten Kahler)
+2013-03-19  4d46397  #46370          [TASK] Update copyright year to 2013 (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-18  a8cbf42  #43186          [TASK] Use minimised version of jquery.dataTables-1.9.4 (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-18  1fbd023                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-18  a612a84  #45509          [TASK] Declare non static methods as static (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-18  c07cd40  #41280          [BUGFIX] Media element not working with FAL (Andreas Schütte)
+2013-03-17  c6eb450  #46361          [BUGFIX] Fix PHP warning in BackendUtility::lockRecords (Helmut Hummel)
+2013-03-17  ae53e44                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-16  2fd2f06  #45528          [TASK] Remove old JS in page header (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-16  3bd2b3c  #35223          [FEATURE] Add stdWrap to config.pageTitleSeperator (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-16  2336e9c  #43184          [TASK] Use central jQuery (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-16  49b6aef  #45703          [BUGFIX] respect rootLevel=-1 in exec_foreign_table_where_query (Stefan Froemken)
+2013-03-16  e304a7d  #46292          [BUGFIX] HMENU rendering uses old tslib_ class names (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-16  bd86bd1  #25292          [BUGFIX] Make sure XML parser is created everytime when needed (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-16  5c3c09b                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-15  48ad672  #46115          [BUGFIX] Importing extensions from repository fails (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-15  d5e711a  #45833          Revert "[BUGFIX] Fix wrong column title in web>list for field colpos" (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-15  51774f9  #31953          [BUGIFX] Extra output block backend thumbnails (Francois Suter)
+2013-03-15  78debdd                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  2dae51a  #45149          [TASK] Cleanup form (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-14  82f87d7                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  0181671  #45180          [TASK] Cleanup func and func_wizards (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-14  5cb8322  #46296          [BUGFIX] Missing labels in backend modules (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  0c95f5f                  [TASK] NEWS.txt entry about enabled new extbase property mapper (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  91c160d  #44672          [BUGFIX] LanguageController has "mixed" type annotations (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-14  6c1f329  #46294          [TASK] Remove rewrittenPropertyMapper setting in sysext (Anja Leichsenring)
+2013-03-14  2ed5661                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  d10becf  #46286          [TASK] Integrate latest version of jquery (1.9.1) (Benjamin Mack)
+2013-03-14  db962b5  #46269          [TASK] Release typo3/ajax.php from early t3lib_div usage (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  ea6c098  #46267          [BUGFIX] Skip unreliable APC test on PHP versions below 5.3.4 (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  5972c9b  #46264          [BUGFIX] Add .htaccess file to ext:extensionmanager/Resources/Private (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  1ea485b  #46263          [TASK] Relocate cache backend sql resource files (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  46e93257  #46262          [TASK] Move CF last_synched_revision file to ext:core/Classes/Cache (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-14  66d6334  #45795          [BUGFIX] Toolbar items with separator: fix white-space (Felix Kopp)
+2013-03-14  cc2cfe7  #46143          [TASK] Cleanup sysext "wizard_crpages" and "wizard_sortpages" (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-14  fa907b2  #46144          [TASK] Cleanup sysext "tstemplate" and module functions (Wouter Wolters)
+2013-03-13  ad0a8b0                  [TASK] Raise submodule pointer (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-13  009f307  #46219          [FEATURE] Central system environment check (Christian Kuhn)
+2013-03-13  338cf5b  #39127          [BUGFIX] Translation of a form makes the form wizard unusable (Mario Rimann)
+2013-03-13  76ec357  #45532          [TASK] Improve FAL performance (Dmitry Dulepov)
+2013-03-13  688d341  #45530          [TASK] Improve rootline cache handling (Georg Ringer)
+2013-03-13  75ee5d8  #43906          [BUGFIX] Exception when deleted file is in clipboard (Andreas Wolf)
+2013-03-13  dbc89f7  #45319          [BUGFIX] inject* methods in FAL inhibit use of Extbase object manager (Andreas Wolf)
+2013-03-12  23de492  #46058          [FEATURE] Add context-menu for template-icon in the "Template"-view (Stefan Neufeind)
+2013-03-12  6c44c1d                  [TASK] Set TYPO3 version to 6.1-dev (TYPO3 Release Team)
+2013-03-12  cfe6958                  [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 6.1.0alpha1 (TYPO3 Release Team)
+
+
 2013-03-12  6c11c39                  [RELEASE] Release of TYPO3 6.1.0alpha1 (TYPO3 Release Team)
 2013-03-12  2a0ce1b  #36067          [BUGFIX] Prevent encoding of HTML entities in backend previews (Helmut Hummel)
 2013-03-11  4b0c8c6  #45143          [TASK] Cleanup filelist (Wouter Wolters)
diff --git a/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Core/SystemEnvironmentBuilder.php b/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Core/SystemEnvironmentBuilder.php
index 051b18df12aeddb6340d5270924a7b4ea175655a..1d859704ca209d7532be9bec012687bdaa6a56c3 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Core/SystemEnvironmentBuilder.php
+++ b/typo3/sysext/core/Classes/Core/SystemEnvironmentBuilder.php
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class SystemEnvironmentBuilder {
 	 */
 	static protected function defineBaseConstants() {
 		// This version, branch and copyright
-		define('TYPO3_version', '6.1-dev');
+		define('TYPO3_version', '6.1.0beta1');
 		define('TYPO3_branch', '6.1');
 		define('TYPO3_copyright_year', '1998-2013');
 		// TYPO3 external links