diff --git a/apps/boot-hello/README.md b/apps/boot-hello/README.md
index c0e048a4c3..20a333f6a7 100644
--- a/apps/boot-hello/README.md
+++ b/apps/boot-hello/README.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 The smallest Struts Boot application: one action, one FreeMarker template, no `web.xml`, no `struts.xml`.
 
+Struts Boot is experimental: its API and defaults may change between minor releases.
+
 ## Three steps
 
 1. Depend on `org.apache.struts:struts2-boot-starter`, at the same version as the rest of Struts. Importing
diff --git a/boot/pom.xml b/boot/pom.xml
index 76593c0edf..f5a7f78314 100644
--- a/boot/pom.xml
+++ b/boot/pom.xml
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 
     <artifactId>struts2-boot-starter</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <name>Struts 2 Boot Starter</name>
+    <name>Struts 2 Boot Starter [EXPERIMENTAL]</name>
 
     <dependencies>
         <dependency>