Updated website for HttpCore 5.5-beta1 release
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/download.md b/src/site/markdown/download.md
index 1fc0519..3b1d6e1 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/download.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/download.md
@@ -77,29 +77,29 @@
   [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.4.2-src.zip.sha512)]
   [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.4.2-src.zip.asc)]
 
-HttpCore 5.5-alpha1
+HttpCore 5.5-beta1
 ------------------
 [KEYS](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/KEYS) |
 [Release Notes](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/RELEASE_NOTES-5.5.x.txt)
 
 Binaries
 
-* [tar.gz](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.tar.gz)
-  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.tar.gz.sha512)]
-  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.tar.gz.asc)]
-* [zip](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.zip)
-  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.zip.sha512)]
-  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-bin.zip.asc)]
+* [tar.gz](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.tar.gz)
+  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.tar.gz.sha512)]
+  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.tar.gz.asc)]
+* [zip](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.zip)
+  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.zip.sha512)]
+  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/binary/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-bin.zip.asc)]
 
 Source
 
-* [tar.gz](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.tar.gz)
-  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.tar.gz.sha512)]
-  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.tar.gz.asc)]
+* [tar.gz](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.tar.gz)
+  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.tar.gz.sha512)]
+  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.tar.gz.asc)]
 
-* [zip](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.zip)
-  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.zip.sha512)]
-  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-alpha1-src.zip.asc)]
+* [zip](http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.zip)
+  [[sha512](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.zip.sha512)]
+  [[pgp](https://downloads.apache.org/httpcomponents/httpcore/source/httpcomponents-core-5.5-beta1-src.zip.asc)]
 
 Older releases
 ----------------
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/news.md b/src/site/markdown/news.md
index caf80a7..f6070b5 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/news.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/news.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <!--
     Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
     or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-    distributed with this work for additional information
+    distributed with t  zhis work for additional information
     regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
     to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
     "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
@@ -20,6 +20,28 @@
 HttpComponents Project News
 ===========================
 
+###### 5 June 2026 - HttpComponents Core 5.5-beta1 released
+
+This is the first BETA release in the 5.5 release series that improves performance and
+robustness of connection pool implementations, further improves HTTP/2 specification
+conformance and introduces JSON message content bindings based on
+[Jackson](https://github.com/fasterxml/jackson) version 2.
+
+Notable changes and features included in the 5.5 series:
+
+* Connection pool implementation improvements.
+
+* HTTP message stream APIs and support for HTTP/2 message stream timeout.
+
+* SSLContexts to respect system properties by default.
+
+* Cap pending HTTP/2 request commands per connection.
+
+* HPACK RFC 7540 / RFC 7541 / HTTP/2 RFC 9113 conformance improvements.
+
+* JSON message content bindings
+
+
 ###### 20 April 2026 - HttpComponents Client 5.6.1 GA released
 
 This is a maintenance release that disables the experimental SCRAM auth scheme by
diff --git a/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/documentation.links b/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/documentation.links
index 34ca3a1..5a7c4a0 100644
--- a/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/documentation.links
+++ b/src/site/resources/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/documentation.links
@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@
 # links property file for Ant's symlink task in pom.xml:
 # links to components in https://hc.apache.org/components/
 
-5.5-alpha11 ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/5.5-alpha1
-current     ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/5.5-alpha1
\ No newline at end of file
+5.5-alpha1  ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/5.5-alpha1
+5.5-beta1   ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/5.5-beta1
+current     ../components/httpcomponents-core-5.5.x/5.5-beta1