diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e9b7aacd92..baaf2600c8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@ project (OpenImageIO VERSION ${OpenImageIO_VERSION}
 set (PROJ_NAME OIIO)    # short name, caps
 string (TOLOWER ${PROJ_NAME} PROJ_NAME_LOWER)  # short name lower case
 string (TOUPPER ${PROJ_NAME} PROJ_NAME_UPPER)  # short name upper case
-set (PROJECT_VERSION_RELEASE_TYPE "dev" CACHE STRING
+set (PROJECT_VERSION_RELEASE_TYPE "beta" CACHE STRING
     "Build type, for example: dev, beta2, RC1 (empty string for normal release)")
 set (${PROJECT_NAME}_VERSION_RELEASE_TYPE ${PROJECT_VERSION_RELEASE_TYPE})
 set (PROJECT_AUTHORS "Contributors to the OpenImageIO project")
 option (${PROJECT_NAME}_SUPPORTED_RELEASE
-        "Set ON for supported release branch, OFF for master" OFF)
+        "Set ON for supported release branch, OFF for master" ON)
 if (${PROJECT_NAME}_SUPPORTED_RELEASE)
     set (${PROJECT_NAME}_DEV_RELEASE OFF)
 else ()
diff --git a/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h b/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
index bedadde5c0..7c56b53fa2 100644
--- a/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
+++ b/src/include/OpenImageIO/ustring.h
@@ -1051,10 +1051,6 @@ OIIO_DEVICE_CONSTEXPR ustringhash operator""_ush(const char* str,
 /// Deprecated -- This is too easy to confuse with the ustringhash class. And
 /// also it is unnecessary if you use std::hash<ustring>. This will be removed
 /// in OIIO 3.0.
-#    if OIIO_VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL(2, 6, 0)
-OIIO_DEPRECATED("Use std::hash<ustring> instead of ustringHash")
-#    endif
-
 using ustringHash = std::hash<ustring>;
 #endif