diff --git a/.github/release-please-config.json b/.github/release-please-config.json
index 7a8afee..5d91e02 100644
--- a/.github/release-please-config.json
+++ b/.github/release-please-config.json
@@ -8,5 +8,8 @@
   },
   "plugins": [
     "sentence-case"
+  ],
+  "extra-files": [
+    "README.md"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 1d1d0a8..afd7095 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -65,7 +65,11 @@ Building and deploying the actual Maven Artifacts for a release is the responsib
 After a release has been made, Release Please will automatically create another pull request to update the version
 numbers in `pom.xml` files to the next snapshot version
 (see the [Maven strategy](https://github.com/googleapis/release-please/blob/main/docs/java.md)).
-This snapshot “release pull request” has to be merged immediately.
+Version numbers in README.md will also get updated with snapshot versions although that is unwanted. Release Please
+cannot be configured to skip updating README.md when creating a snapshot release. The unwanted changes need to be
+reverted manually.
+This snapshot “release pull request” has to be merged immediately after unwanted changes to version numbers in README.md
+have been reverted.
 
 
 [Conventional Commits]: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 19525fd..c67730e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -13,22 +13,24 @@ The [hamcrest-mail][] sister project provides a set of Hamcrest matchers with si
 To use AssertJ Mail in a Maven project add a dependency on `org.devopsix:assertj-mail` (for Java EE 8 / javax.mail) or
 `org.devopsix:assertj-mail-jakarta` (for Jakarta EE 9+ / jakarta.mail) to the pom.xml file.
 
+<!-- x-release-please-start-version -->
 ```xml
 <!-- Maven coordinates for Java EE 8 / javax.mail -->
 <dependency>
     <groupId>org.devopsix</groupId>
     <artifactId>assertj-mail</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0.9</version>
+    <version>1.0.11</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>
 <!-- Maven coordinates for Jakarta EE 9+ / jakarta.mail -->
 <dependency>
     <groupId>org.devopsix</groupId>
     <artifactId>assertj-mail-jakarta</artifactId>
-    <version>1.0.9</version>
+    <version>1.0.11</version>
     <scope>test</scope>
 </dependency>
 ```
+<!-- x-release-please-end -->
 
 The assertions are available as static methods on the `MailAssertions` class.