diff --git a/doc/changelog.rst b/doc/changelog.rst
index 219070356..32666bfff 100644
--- a/doc/changelog.rst
+++ b/doc/changelog.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
-Changes in Version 3.11.0b1.dev0
---------------------------------
+Changes in Version 3.11.0b1
+---------------------------
 
 Version 3.11 adds support for MongoDB 4.4. Highlights include:
 
@@ -14,6 +14,11 @@ Version 3.11 adds support for MongoDB 4.4. Highlights include:
 - Support for the :ref:`MONGODB-AWS` authentication mechanism.
 - Support for the ``directConnection`` URI option and kwarg to
   :class:`~pymongo.mongo_client.MongoClient`.
+- Support for speculative authentication attempts in connection handshakes
+  which reduces the number of network roundtrips needed to authenticate new
+  connections on MongoDB 4.4+.
+- Support for creating collections in multi-document transactions with
+  :meth:`~pymongo.database.Database.create_collection` on MongoDB 4.4+.
 - Added index hinting support to the
   :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.replace_one`,
   :meth:`~pymongo.collection.Collection.update_one`,
@@ -34,8 +39,12 @@ Version 3.11 adds support for MongoDB 4.4. Highlights include:
   of this parameter see the MongoDB documentation for the `validate command`_.
 - Added the ``allow_disk_use`` parameters to
   :meth:`pymongo.collection.Collection.find`.
-- Support for creating collections in multi-document transactions with
-  :meth:`~pymongo.database.Database.create_collection` on MongoDB 4.4+.
+- Added the ``hedge`` parameter to
+  :class:`~pymongo.read_preferences.PrimaryPreferred`,
+  :class:`~pymongo.read_preferences.Secondary`,
+  :class:`~pymongo.read_preferences.SecondaryPreferred`,
+  :class:`~pymongo.read_preferences.Nearest` to support disabling
+  (or explicitly enabling) hedged reads in MongoDB 4.4+.
 - Deprecated the ``oplog_replay`` parameter to
   :meth:`pymongo.collection.Collection.find`. Starting in MongoDB 4.4, the
   server optimizes queries against the oplog collection without requiring
diff --git a/doc/installation.rst b/doc/installation.rst
index 0bda72e16..f34991740 100644
--- a/doc/installation.rst
+++ b/doc/installation.rst
@@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ but can be found on the
 `GitHub tags page <https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/tags>`_.
 They can be installed by passing the full URL for the tag to pip::
 
-  $ python -m pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.11.0b0.tar.gz
+  $ python -m pip install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.11.0b1.tar.gz
 
 or easy_install::
 
-  $ python -m easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.11.0b0.tar.gz
+  $ python -m easy_install https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/archive/3.11.0b1.tar.gz
diff --git a/pymongo/__init__.py b/pymongo/__init__.py
index 74246e72c..dd02d9e72 100644
--- a/pymongo/__init__.py
+++ b/pymongo/__init__.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ SLOW_ONLY = 1
 ALL = 2
 """Profile all operations."""
 
-version_tuple = (3, 11, 0, 'b1.dev0')
+version_tuple = (3, 11, 0, 'b1')
 
 def get_version_string():
     if isinstance(version_tuple[-1], str):
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index fc1ee93f7..c8f6b9668 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ except ImportError:
     except ImportError:
         _HAVE_SPHINX = False
 
-version = "3.11.0b1.dev0"
+version = "3.11.0b1"
 
 f = open("README.rst")
 try: