diff --git a/DEVELOPERS.md b/DEVELOPERS.md
index da5b8d6..1b79308 100644
--- a/DEVELOPERS.md
+++ b/DEVELOPERS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # TODO: link to here from sphinx docs
 
+# Setting up precommit hooks
+pre-commit install
+
 # Fetching submodules
 git submodule update --recursive --init
 
@@ -9,5 +12,7 @@ uv pip install -e .[dev]
 # Building documentation
 sphinx-build -M html source build -a
 
-# Building installer package
-TBD
+# Building standalone DZGUI release binaries
+1. Run `./scripts/dl_pyapp.sh`
+2. Run `python3 scripts/release.py`
+3. Generate a release and tag against the bundled `dzgui` executable
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index 89ad0bb..1ed2981 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-For additional licenses to submodules, see docs/licenses.
+Additional licenses to git submodules not explicitly shipped with the source code:
+python-a2s: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yepoleb/python-a2s/refs/heads/master/LICENSE
+dayzquery: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Yepoleb/dayzquery/refs/heads/master/LICENSE
 
 
                     GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 969add7..95f9db0 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,22 +1,22 @@
 ## What this is
-DZGUI allows you to connect to both official and modded/community DayZ servers on Linux and provides a graphical interface for doing so.
+DZGUI is a turnkey browser and mod manager for DayZ on Linux. It allows you to connect to both official and modded/community DayZ servers on Linux via a graphical user interface (GUI).
 
 This overcomes certain limitations in the Linux client and helps prepare the game to launch by providing features like:
 
-- Search for and display server metadata in a table (server name, player count, ping, queue size, current gametime, distance, IP)
+- Search for and display global and LAN servers via an interactive table
+- Supports official, third-party, and modded DayZ servers
+- Automatically find and prepare mods being requested by servers
 - Add/delete/manage favorite servers by IP or ID
 - Quick-connect to favorite/recent servers
-- Find and prepare mods being requested by servers (choose from manual or automatic installation)
-- Bulk delete/update local mods
-- Concatenate launch options to pass to Steam
-- Connect to mod-enabled LAN servers
+- Manage local mods and symlinks
+- Prepare launch options to pass to Steam
 
 ## Setup and usage
 
-Refer to the documentation for installation and setup instructions:
+Please refer to the documentation for installation and setup instructions:
 
 - [GitHub](https://aclist.github.io/dzgui/index.html)
-- [Mirror (Codeberg)](https://aclist.codeberg.page)
+- [Codeberg (Mirror)](https://aclist.codeberg.page)
 
 ![A screenshot of DZGUI](/images/example.png)
 
@@ -24,4 +24,14 @@ Refer to the documentation for installation and setup instructions:
 
 Geolocation records from [DB-IP](https://db-ip.com) under [CC 4.0 license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
 
-# TODO: mention third party libraries
+This tool uses [python-a2s](https://github.com/Yepoleb/python-a2s) and [dayzquery](https://github.com/Yepoleb/dayzquery) as submodules; licenses for these submodules can be found in the LICENSES file
+of the project root.
+
+Both the geolocation records and submodules listed above are not shipped with the source code, but are retrieved and assembled at runtime.
+
+Finally, executable versions of DZGUI shipped as release binaries are thin wrappers around the Python interpreter, and also retrieve and assemble the above dependencies at runtime on the end-user's
+machine, rather than using pre-compiled source code. Users wishing to review these dependencies can inspect the 'pyproject.toml' manifest in the project root.
+
+## Disclaimer
+
+DZGUI is beta-quality software and is provided as-is.
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cc2d4c8..44ace5b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ Issues = "https://github.com/aclist/dzgui/issues"
 Changelog = "https://github.com/aclist/dzgui/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md"
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-docs = ["sphinx"]
+docs = [
+    "sphinx==9.0.4",
+    "sphinx-rtd_theme==3.1.0",
+    "sphinx-copybutton==0.5.2"
+]
 test = [
     "black==25.1.0",
     "pre-commit==4.4.0",
@@ -55,6 +59,7 @@ lint = [
     "types-psutil==7.2.2.20260508",
 ]
 build = [
+    "pre-commit==4.4.0",
     "build==1.5.0",
 ]
 
diff --git a/scripts/release.py b/scripts/release.py
index 530d2bf..5fff112 100644
--- a/scripts/release.py
+++ b/scripts/release.py
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ import subprocess
 
 from importlib import metadata
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Any
 
 from dzgui.const.constants import APP_NAME_LOWER