Updated project website for HttpCore 5.2-beta1 release
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/news.md b/src/site/markdown/news.md
index 72ded8d..c3d24d4 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/news.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/news.md
@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@
 HttpComponents Project News
 ===========================
 
+###### 17 March 2022 - HttpComponents Core 5.2-beta1 released
+
+This is the first BETA release in the 5.2 release series that marks the completion of major API changes and starts the
+transition toward a GA phase.
+
+Notable changes and features included in the 5.2 series:
+
+- Upgrade to Java 8.
+- Improved support for TLS upgrade and HTTP protocol upgrade (async).
+- Improved HTTP protocol negotiation.
+- Improved customization of HTTP listeners (async).
+- Improved parsing and formatting of URI components.
+- Use of Java 1.8 date / time APIs
+
 ###### 1 February 2022 - HttpComponents Client 5.1.3 (GA) released
 
 This release upgrades HttpCore to the latest 5.1 version and fixes a number of issues found since release 5.1.2.
diff --git a/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.2.x/documentation.links b/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.2.x/documentation.links
index 53bc5a6..5d2f749 100644
--- a/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.2.x/documentation.links
+++ b/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.2.x/documentation.links
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # links property file for Ant's symlink task in pom.xml:
 # links to components in http://hc.apache.org/components/
 
-5.2-alpha1  ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.2-alpha1
 5.2-alpha2  ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.2-alpha2
-current     ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.2-alpha2
+5.2-beta1  ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.2-beta1
+current     ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.1.x/5.2-beta1
diff --git a/src/site/xdoc/downloads.xml b/src/site/xdoc/downloads.xml
index 5cbf9e6..c7cd638 100644
--- a/src/site/xdoc/downloads.xml
+++ b/src/site/xdoc/downloads.xml
@@ -236,43 +236,43 @@
       </ul>
     </subsection>
 
-    <subsection name="HttpCore 5.2 ALPHA2">
+    <subsection name="HttpCore 5.2 BETA1">
       <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/KEYS">KEYS</a>
       <a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES-5.2.x.txt">Release Notes</a>
       <br/>
       <p>Binary</p>
       <ul>
         <li>
-          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.tar.gz">5.2-alpha2.tar.gz</a>
+          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.tar.gz">5.2-beta1.tar.gz</a>
           [<a
-                href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.tar.gz.sha512">
+                href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.tar.gz.sha512">
           sha512</a>]
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.tar.gz.asc">
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.tar.gz.asc">
           pgp</a>]
         </li>
         <li>
-          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.zip">5.2-alpha2.zip</a>
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.zip.sha512">
+          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.zip">5.2-beta1.zip</a>
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.zip.sha512">
           sha512</a>]
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-bin.zip.asc">
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-bin.zip.asc">
           pgp</a>]
         </li>
       </ul>
       <p>Source</p>
       <ul>
         <li>
-          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.tar.gz">5.2-alpha2.tar.gz</a>
+          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.tar.gz">5.2-beta1.tar.gz</a>
           [<a
-                href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.tar.gz.sha512">
+                href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.tar.gz.sha512">
           sha512</a>]
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.tar.gz.asc">
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.tar.gz.asc">
           pgp</a>]
         </li>
         <li>
-          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.zip">5.2-alpha2.zip</a>
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.zip.sha512">
+          <a href="[preferred]/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.zip">5.2-beta1.zip</a>
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.zip.sha512">
           sha512</a>]
-          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-alpha2-src.zip.asc">
+          [<a href="https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.2-beta1-src.zip.asc">
           pgp</a>]
         </li>
       </ul>