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@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ Do note that compiling a module for a particular operating system
 Cross-compiling from a host OS for a different target OS may be possible, but
 we don't support this flow with Riot dependencies at this time.
 
+At the moment, we need to make some changes to the Riot release process before
+we can support native Node modules at release time, so these features are
+currently disabled by default until that is resolved. The following sections
+explain the manual steps you can use with a custom build of Riot to enable
+these features if you'd like to try them out.
+
 ## Adding Seshat support
 
 Seshat is a native node library that adds support for local event indexing and