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 We use `mdbook-linkcheck` to validate URLs included in our documentation. To perform link checks, uncomment the `[output.linkcheck]` field in the `book.toml` configuration file and install `mdbook-linkcheck` with:
 
 ```bash
-> cargo install mdbook-linkcheck
+> cargo install mdbook-linkcheck --git https://github.com/Michael-F-Bryan/mdbook-linkcheck --rev 14441d77646d58cea8ffc32fde9ea33b2bedb1a2
 ```
 
-You will need `mdbook` version `>= 0.3.5` and `mdbook-linkcheck` version `>= 0.5` to check links.
+Note that we use an alpha version of `mdbook-linkcheck` to be able to use a feature that hasn't landed in a release yet.
+You will also need `mdbook` version `>= 0.3.5`.
 `linkcheck` will be run automatically when you build with the instructions in the section above.
 
 **Please note**: You may receive errors like the following when link checks are active on local `mdbook` builds: