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 Make sure you have the Lightbend Whitesource credentials configured in
 your `~/.sbt/1.0/private-credentials.sbt`.
 
+## Snapshot releases
+
+Nightly snapshot releases are created from master and published to
+https://repo.akka.io/snapshots by https://jenkins.akka.io:8498/job/akka-publish-nightly/
+
+To create snapshot versions manually, use `sbt clean stampVersion publish`.
+
 ## Release steps
 
 * Check the instructions for `project/scripts/release`