diff --git a/pom.template.xml b/pom.template.xml
index 343fbcd372..ec7501e9f2 100644
--- a/pom.template.xml
+++ b/pom.template.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.clojure</groupId>
       <artifactId>clojure</artifactId>
-      <version>1.7.0-alpha6</version>
+      <version>1.7.0-beta1</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.javascript</groupId>
diff --git a/project.clj b/project.clj
index 9dd166cce9..b419b371e9 100644
--- a/project.clj
+++ b/project.clj
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   :source-paths ["src/clj"]
   :resource-paths ["src/cljs"]
   :test-paths ["test/clj"]
-  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.7.0-alpha6"]
+  :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.7.0-beta1"]
                  [org.clojure/data.json "0.2.6"]
                  [org.clojure/tools.reader "0.9.1"]
                  [org.clojure/google-closure-library "0.0-20140718-946a7d39"]
diff --git a/script/bootstrap b/script/bootstrap
index df8d68cfbf..a3ecec8b64 100755
--- a/script/bootstrap
+++ b/script/bootstrap
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 set -e
 
-CLOJURE_RELEASE="1.7.0-alpha6"
+CLOJURE_RELEASE="1.7.0-beta1"
 CLOSURE_RELEASE="20150126"
 DJSON_RELEASE="0.2.6"
 GCLOSURE_LIB_RELEASE="0.0-20140718-946a7d39"