diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 47e2ee3..1daf6c1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ The documentation on GitHub is for **develop** since the 1.2.724 release -- [see
 
 This project follows the version scheme MAJOR.MINOR.COMMITS where MAJOR and MINOR provide some relative indication of the size of the change, but do not follow semantic versioning. In general, all changes endeavor to be non-breaking (by moving to new names rather than by breaking existing names). COMMITS is an ever-increasing counter of commits since the beginning of this repository.
 
+> Note: every commit to the **develop** branch runs CI (GitHub Actions) and successful runs push a MAJOR.MINOR.999-SNAPSHOT build to Clojars so the very latest version of `next.jdbc` is always available either via that [snapshot on Clojars](https://clojars.org/com.github.seancorfield/next.jdbc) or via a git dependency on the latest SHA.
+
 ## Motivation
 
 Why another JDBC library? Why a different API from `clojure.java.jdbc`?
diff --git a/build.clj b/build.clj
index e13c606..af6462f 100644
--- a/build.clj
+++ b/build.clj
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
             [org.corfield.build :as bb]))
 
 (def lib 'com.github.seancorfield/next.jdbc)
-(def version (format "1.2.%s" (b/git-count-revs nil)))
-(def snapshot "1.2.999-SNAPSHOT")
+(defn- the-version [patch] (format "1.2.%s" patch))
+(def version (the-version (b/git-count-revs nil)))
+(def snapshot (the-version "999-SNAPSHOT"))
 
 (defn test "Run all the tests." [opts]
   (reduce (fn [opts alias]