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@@ -7,12 +7,15 @@ facebook, or any other method with the owner of this repository before making a
 
 The prerequisites for locally building KickC are the following
 
-*  [Java JDK 8+](https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase)
+*  [Java OpenJDK 14+](https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase)
 *  [Apache Maven 3+](https://maven.apache.org)
 
-The steps to build KickC is
+The steps to building KickC are
 
 1.  Download, Fork or Clone the source code from https://gitlab.com/camelot/kickc 
-2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing `mvn package`
+2.  Build and package the KickC compiler by entering the source directory and executing `mvn package` 
+    (if you want to skip the time-consuming tests you can add the option `-DskipTests`)
+3. The zipped release is placed in `target/kickc-release.zip`. You can now unzip it to a folder of your choice to start using the compiler.
+