diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a8c2df94f..d21dc5647 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 ## Improvements
 - Callbacks registration is now a public method of the optimizer and allows callbacks to be inserted at a specific position.
+- Adapt developer install instructions to include pre-commit installation
 
 ## Bugfixes
 - Adjust amount of configurations in different stages of hyperband brackets to conform to the original paper.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 03999059a..e546e8356 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,10 +57,10 @@ Install SMAC via PyPI:
 pip install smac
 ```
 
-Or alternatively, clone the environment:
+If you want to contribute to SMAC, use the following steps instead:
 ```
 git clone https://github.com/automl/SMAC3.git && cd SMAC3
-pip install -e .[dev]
+make install-dev
 ```