diff --git a/README b/README
index 3ac98426..51b7981d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -7,13 +7,13 @@ operations but is not dependant upon them.
 Functionality implemented include:
  - all above mentioned protocols, including support for client certificates
    (RFC 6101, RFC 2246, RFC 4346, RFC 5246, RFC 8446 - not complete)
- - RSA, RSA-PSS and ECDSA certificates
+ - RSA, RSA-PSS, DSA, and ECDSA certificates
  - RC4, 3DES-CBC, AES-CBC, AES-GCM, AES-CCM, AES-CCM_8 and ChaCha20 ciphers
    (RFC 5246, RFC 6347, RFC 4492, RFC 5288, RFC 5289, RFC 7539, RFC 7905,
    RFC 6655, RFC 7251)
  - MD5, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA384 HMACs as well as AEAD mode of operation with
    GCM or Poly1305 authenticator
- - RSA, DHE_RSA, ECDHE_RSA, ECDHE_ECDSA key exchange
+ - RSA, DHE_RSA, DHE_DSS, ECDHE_RSA, ECDHE_ECDSA key exchange
  - full set of signature hashes (md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha384, sha512,
    rsa_pss_rsae_sha256, rsa_pss_rsae_sha384 and rsa_pss_rsae_sha512) for
    ServerKeyExchange and CertfificateVerify
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 677c5698..23a42557 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-tlslite-ng version 0.8.0-alpha47 (2023-08-21)
+tlslite-ng version 0.8.0-beta1 (2023-08-24)
 
 [![Build Status](https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng/workflows/GitHub%20CI/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng/actions?query=workflow%3A%22GitHub+CI%22+branch%3Amaster)
 [![Read the Docs](https://img.shields.io/readthedocs/tlslite-ng)](https://tlslite-ng.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ Implemented TLS features include:
 * Extended master secret
 * padding extension
 * keying material exporter
-* RSA, RSA-PSS, ECDSA, and EdDSA certificates
+* RSA, RSA-PSS, DSA, ECDSA, and EdDSA certificates
 * ticket based session resumption
 * 1-RTT handshake, Hello Retry Request, middlebox compatibility mode,
   cookie extension, post-handshake authentication and KeyUpdate
@@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ may not work with all asyncore.dispatcher subclasses.
   curves and signature algorithms advertised by client (Ivan Nikolchev)
 * basic support for DSA certificates; verification of DSA signatures
   in ServerKeyExchange (Frantisek Krenzelok)
+* support for DSA client certificates
 * small optimisations to PRF methods, speeds to handshake
 * support for MD5 signatures in X.509 certificates (Jean-Romain Garnier)
 * add support for Brainpool curves in TLS 1.2 and earlier (pytz)
diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index ec5d65cf..79bcff41 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@
 # The short X.Y version.
 version = u'0.8'
 # The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
-release = u'0.8.0-alpha47'
+release = u'0.8.0-beta1'
 
 # The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
 # for a list of supported languages.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7b13a1c0..6cd9a607 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     README = f.read()
 
 setup(name="tlslite-ng",
-      version="0.8.0-alpha47",
+      version="0.8.0-beta1",
       author="Hubert Kario",
       author_email="hkario@redhat.com",
       url="https://github.com/tlsfuzzer/tlslite-ng",
diff --git a/tlslite/api.py b/tlslite/api.py
index e7fdaea3..239ca660 100644
--- a/tlslite/api.py
+++ b/tlslite/api.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Author: Trevor Perrin
 # See the LICENSE file for legal information regarding use of this file.
 
-__version__ = "0.8.0-alpha47"
+__version__ = "0.8.0-beta1"
 # the whole module is about importing most commonly used methods, for use
 # by other applications
 # pylint: disable=unused-import