diff --git a/README.html b/README.html
index 1556c809..f73771e9 100644
--- a/README.html
+++ b/README.html
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 Getting Started with LuaJ
 
 </h1>
-James Roseborough, Ian Farmer, Version 3.0-beta1
+James Roseborough, Ian Farmer, Version 3.0-beta2
 <p>
 <small>
 Copyright &copy; 2009-2013 Luaj.org.
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ It also includes miscellaneous improvements over luaj 2.0.x:
 <li>Line numbers in parse syntax tree.
 <li>More compatible table behavior.
 <li>Better thread safety.
+<li>Maven integration.
 </ul>
 <h3>Luaj 2.0.x</h3>
 Support for lua 5.1.x features, plus:
@@ -119,7 +120,7 @@ in comparison with the standard C distribution.
 	<td>16.794</td>
 	<td>11.274</td>
 	<td>Java</td>
-	<td>java -cp luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;bcel-5.2.jar lua <b>-b</b> fannkuch.lua 10</td></tr>
+	<td>java -cp luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar;bcel-5.2.jar lua <b>-b</b> fannkuch.lua 10</td></tr>
 <tr valign="top">
 	<td></td>
 	<td></td>
@@ -129,7 +130,7 @@ in comparison with the standard C distribution.
 	<td>36.894</td>
 	<td>15.163</td>
 	<td></td>
-	<td>java -cp luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar lua -n fannkuch.lua 10</td></tr>
+	<td>java -cp luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar lua -n fannkuch.lua 10</td></tr>
 <tr valign="top">
 	<td>lua</td>
 	<td>5.1.4</td>
@@ -185,7 +186,7 @@ It is also faster than Java-lua implementations Jill, Kahlua, and Mochalua for a
 From the main distribution directory line type:
 
 <pre>
-	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar lua examples/lua/hello.lua
+	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar lua examples/lua/hello.lua
 </pre>
 
 <p>
@@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ You should see the following output:
 To see how luaj can be used to acccess most Java API's including swing, try:
 
 <pre>
-	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar lua examples/lua/swingapp.lua
+	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar lua examples/lua/swingapp.lua
 </pre>
 
 <h2>Compile lua source to lua bytecode</h2>
@@ -206,8 +207,8 @@ To see how luaj can be used to acccess most Java API's including swing, try:
 From the main distribution directory line type:
 
 <pre>
-	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar luac examples/lua/hello.lua
-	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar lua luac.out
+	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar luac examples/lua/hello.lua
+	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar lua luac.out
 </pre>
 
 <p>
@@ -221,8 +222,8 @@ Luaj can compile lua sources or binaries directly to java bytecode if the bcel l
 
 <pre>
 	ant bcel-lib
-	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;lib/bcel-5.2.jar&quot; luajc -s examples/lua -d . hello.lua
-	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;.&quot; lua -l hello
+	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar;lib/bcel-5.2.jar&quot; luajc -s examples/lua -d . hello.lua
+	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar;.&quot; lua -l hello
 </pre>
 
 <p>
@@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ but the compiled classes must be in the class path at runtime, unless runtime ji
 <p>
 Lua scripts can also be run directly in this mode without precompiling using the <em>lua</em> command with the <b><em>-b</em></b> option and providing the <em>bcel</em> library in the class path:
 <pre>
-	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;lib/bcel-5.2.jar&quot; lua -b examples/lua/hello.lua
+	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar;lib/bcel-5.2.jar&quot; lua -b examples/lua/hello.lua
 </pre>
 
 
@@ -258,7 +259,7 @@ A simple example may be found in
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar</b> in your class path.
+You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar</b> in your class path.
 
 <h2>Run a script in a MIDlet</h2>
 
@@ -285,7 +286,7 @@ A simple example may be found in
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jme-3.0-beta1.jar</b> in your midlet jar.
+You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jme-3.0-beta2.jar</b> in your midlet jar.
 
 <p>
 An ant script to build and run the midlet is in
@@ -313,7 +314,7 @@ The standard use of JSR-223 scripting engines may be used:
 All standard aspects of script engines including compiled statements should be supported.
 
 <p>
-You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar</b> in your class path.
+You must include the library <b>lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar</b> in your class path.
 
 <p>
 A working example may be found in
@@ -324,8 +325,8 @@ A working example may be found in
 To compile and run it using Java 1.6 or higher:
 
 <pre>
-	javac -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar examples/jse/ScriptEngineSample.java
-	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar;examples/jse&quot; ScriptEngineSample
+	javac -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar examples/jse/ScriptEngineSample.java
+	java -cp &quot;lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar;examples/jse&quot; ScriptEngineSample
 </pre>
 
 <h2>Excluding the lua bytecode compiler</h2>
@@ -506,7 +507,7 @@ The following lua script will open a swing frame on Java SE:
 See a longer sample in <em>examples/lua/swingapp.lua</em> for details, including a simple animation loop, rendering graphics, mouse and key handling, and image loading. 
 Or try running it using: 
 <pre>
-	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta1.jar lua examples/lua/swingapp.lua
+	java -cp lib/luaj-jse-3.0-beta2.jar lua examples/lua/swingapp.lua
 </pre>
 
 <p>
@@ -747,14 +748,13 @@ See the <a href="http://luaj.sourceforge.net/api/3.0/org/luaj/vm2/ast/package-su
 <h2>Maven integration</h2>
 The main jar files are now deployed in the maven central repository.  To use them in your maven-based project, list them as a dependency:
 
-
 <p>
 For JSE projects, add this dependency for the luaj-jse jar:
 <pre>
    &lt;dependency&gt;
       &lt;groupId&gt;org.luaj&lt;/groupId&gt;
       &lt;artifactId&gt;luaj-jse&lt;/artifactId&gt;
-      &lt;version&gt;3.0-beta1&lt;/version&gt;
+      &lt;version&gt;3.0-beta2&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;	
 </pre>
 while for JME projects, use the luaj-jme jar:
@@ -762,10 +762,16 @@ while for JME projects, use the luaj-jme jar:
    &lt;dependency&gt;
       &lt;groupId&gt;org.luaj&lt;/groupId&gt;
       &lt;artifactId&gt;luaj-jme&lt;/artifactId&gt;
-      &lt;version&gt;3.0-beta1&lt;/version&gt;
+      &lt;version&gt;3.0-beta2&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;/dependency&gt;	
 </pre>
 
+An example skelton maven pom file for a skeleton project is in 
+<pre>
+	examples/maven/pom.xml
+</pre>
+
+
 <h2>Building the jars</h2>
 An ant file is included in the root directory which builds the libraries by default.
 
@@ -878,6 +884,9 @@ Files are no longer hosted at LuaForge.
 <li>Existing tables can now be made weak (fixes issue #16).</li>
 <li>More compatible allocation of table entries in array vs. hash (fixes issue #8).</li>
 
+<tr valign="top"><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3.0-beta2</b></td><td><ul>
+<li>LuaValue.checkfunction() now returns LuaFunction.</li>
+
 </ul></td></tr>
 </table></td></tr></table>
 
diff --git a/examples/maven/pom.xml b/examples/maven/pom.xml
index 12dc190a..c9388f1d 100644
--- a/examples/maven/pom.xml
+++ b/examples/maven/pom.xml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.luaj</groupId>
       <artifactId>luaj-jse</artifactId>
-      <version>3.0-beta1</version>
+      <version>3.0-beta2</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>junit</groupId>
diff --git a/version.properties b/version.properties
index ea995733..3d1032a5 100644
--- a/version.properties
+++ b/version.properties
@@ -1 +1 @@
-version: 3.0-beta1
\ No newline at end of file
+version: 3.0-beta2
\ No newline at end of file