diff --git a/release/README.md b/release/README.md
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--- a/release/README.md
+++ b/release/README.md
@@ -4,11 +4,13 @@
 - Verify that all CI tests pass for current master
 - Tag the release, and push to Github
 - Wait for tag CI to complete
-- Download assets from snapshots.mitmproxy.org
+- Download assets from https://snapshots.mitmproxy.org
 - Create release notice on Github
 - Upload wheel to pypi (`twine upload wheelname`)
 - Update docker-releases repo
   - Create a new branch based of master for major versions.
-  - Add a commit that pins dependencies like so: https://github.com/mitmproxy/docker-releases/commit/3d6a9989fde068ad0aea257823ac3d7986ff1613. The requirements can be obtained by creating a fresh venv, pip-installing the new wheel in there, and then running `pip freeze`.
+  - Add a commit that pins dependencies like so: https://github.com/mitmproxy/docker-releases/commit/3d6a9989fde068ad0aea257823ac3d7986ff1613. 
+    * The requirements can be obtained by creating a fresh venv, pip-installing the new wheel in there, and then running `pip freeze`.
+    * `virtualenv -ppython3.5 venv && source venv/bin/activate && pip install mitmproxy && pip freeze`
 - Update `latest` tag on https://hub.docker.com/r/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/~/settings/automated-builds/
 - Bump the version in https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/mitmproxy/version.py and update https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/blob/master/mitmproxy/io_compat.py in the next commit