Nightly builds for developers

> ## What are the nightly builds?

> The nightly builds are interim builds that are untested and unsupported . Use at your own risk!
> These unreleased builds may not even load, may have undocumented features, known defects, and any number of other issues.
> They are intended for use by developers and others wishing to help with resolving JMeter bugs.

> These builds should not be used in production.

> ## Where are the nightly builds?

> JMeter CI builds are currently run by Jenkins and Buildbot

> These are located at:

> - Last Successful Jenkins build for JMeter-trunk
> - Buildbot nightly builds for JMeter-trunk
> - Maven Snapshots (Buildbot nightly builds)

> ## What do they consist of?

> JMeter is distributed as a set of zip (or tar-gz) archive files. The files are called:

> - apache-jmeter-{version}_bin.zip - JMeter binaries
> - apache-jmeter-{version}_lib.zip - 3rd party jar files (rarely changes)
> - apache-jmeter-{version}_src.zip - JMeter source
> - apache-jmeter-{version}_api.zip - JMeter Javadoc (if available)

> ## Installing JMeter runtime

> Download the _bin and _lib files
> Unpack the archives into the same directory structure
> The other archives are not needed to run JMeter.

> ## Building JMeter

> Download the _src, _bin and _lib files
> Unpack all the archives into the same directory structure .

> ## Warning - please note!

> The nightly builds may or may not work properly - or at all.

> If there is a problem with a particular version, it may be worth reporting this on the JMeter-dev mailing list and/or trying again in a day or two.

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