diff --git a/docs/antnews.html b/docs/antnews.html
index 9e20803f3..8acbb11fb 100644
--- a/docs/antnews.html
+++ b/docs/antnews.html
@@ -210,6 +210,18 @@
         </tr>
       </table>
           <br/>
+  <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+    <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"><strong>Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1</strong></a></font></td></tr>
+  </table>
+                        <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
+                                <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for 
+     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. 
+     Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
+     please raise a bug on 
+     <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
+     or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
+     </p>
+                      <br/>
   <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
     <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Ant 1.5.2"><strong>Ant 1.5.2</strong></a></font></td></tr>
   </table>
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 3f5549b70..404b94dc2 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -209,16 +209,15 @@
       </table>
           <br/>
   <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
-    <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Ant Top Level Apache Project"><strong>Ant Top Level Apache Project</strong></a></font></td></tr>
+    <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1"><strong>Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1</strong></a></font></td></tr>
   </table>
-                        <h3>Ant Promoted to Top Level Apache Project</h3>
-                                <p>On November 18, 2002, the Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
-       the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
-       project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
-       organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
-       the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
-       Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
-       is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
+                        <h3>Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
+                                <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for 
+     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. 
+     Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
+     please raise a bug on 
+     <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
+     or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
      </p>
                       <br/>
   <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
@@ -283,14 +282,6 @@ Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.
     build from <a href="http://cvs.apache.org/builds/ant/nightly/">here</a>
     </p>
                       <br/>
-  <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
-    <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Towards Ant2"><strong>Towards Ant2</strong></a></font></td></tr>
-  </table>
-                        <p>
-    We are currently hashing out design details for Ant2. Please
-    read the latest <a href="antnews.html">Ant news</a> for more details.
-    </p>
-                      <br/>
   <table class="nowrap" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
     <tr><td bgcolor="#294563"><font color="#ffffff"><a name="Get Involved"><strong>Get Involved</strong></a></font></td></tr>
   </table>
diff --git a/xdocs/antnews.xml b/xdocs/antnews.xml
index e7ebc9cf8..b547ce5f5 100644
--- a/xdocs/antnews.xml
+++ b/xdocs/antnews.xml
@@ -9,6 +9,18 @@
   </properties>
 
 <body>
+  <section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1">
+    <h3>March 25, 2003 - Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
+    <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for 
+     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. 
+     Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
+     please raise a bug on 
+     <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
+     or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
+     </p>
+  </section>
+
+
   <section name="Ant 1.5.2">
     <h3>March 3, 2003 - Ant 1.5.2 Available!</h3>
     <p>The final version of Ant 1.5.2 is now available for 
diff --git a/xdocs/index.xml b/xdocs/index.xml
index e14b51734..ba8b571bf 100644
--- a/xdocs/index.xml
+++ b/xdocs/index.xml
@@ -9,19 +9,18 @@
 
 <body>
 
-  <section name="Ant Top Level Apache Project">
-    <h3>Ant Promoted to Top Level Apache Project</h3>
-    
-    <p>On November 18, 2002, the Apache board <a href="mission.html">created</a>
-       the Apache Ant top level project. Ant has now migrated from the Jakarta
-       project into an Apache project of its own. This is primarily an
-       organizational change and will not affect the technical aspects of
-       the project. Ant retains a strong association with the Apache
-       Jakarta project. One effect of this change is that the Ant webpage
-       is now located at <a href="http://ant.apache.org/">http://ant.apache.org/</a>
+
+  <section name="Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1">
+    <h3>Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 Available</h3>
+    <p>Apache Ant 1.5.3 Beta 1 is now available for 
+     <a href="http://ant.apache.org/beta/">download</a>. 
+     Please download it and try it out. If you have any issues
+     please raise a bug on 
+     <a href="http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi?product=Ant">BugZilla</a>
+     or send an email to the Ant dev mailing list
      </p>
   </section>
-
+  
   <section name="Apache Ant">
 
 <p>
@@ -91,13 +90,6 @@ Comprehensive documentation is included in the source and binary distributions.
     
   </section>
   
-  <section name="Towards Ant2">
-    <p>
-    We are currently hashing out design details for Ant2. Please
-    read the latest <a href="antnews.html">Ant news</a> for more details.
-    </p>
-  </section>
-  
   <section name="Get Involved">
 <ul>
 <li><a href="http://jakarta.apache.org/getinvolved/getinvolvedindex.html">Get Involved</a></li>
