diff --git a/httpclient5-sse/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/sse/package-info.java b/httpclient5-sse/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/sse/package-info.java
index 7c3345632f..6fa57894b2 100644
--- a/httpclient5-sse/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/sse/package-info.java
+++ b/httpclient5-sse/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/sse/package-info.java
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
  * configurable parsing pipeline. It is designed for very low-latency, high-fan-out
  * read workloads and integrates with HttpClient 5's asynchronous I/O stack.</p>
  *
+ * <p><strong>Experimental.</strong> This module is experimental. Its public API is not yet stable
+ * and may change in an incompatible way, or be removed, in a future release; it is excluded from
+ * the project's binary and source backward-compatibility guarantees for the 5.7 release series.</p>
+ *
  * <h2>Key types</h2>
  * <ul>
  *   <li>{@link org.apache.hc.client5.http.sse.SseExecutor} — entry point that opens
diff --git a/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/websocket/package-info.java b/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/websocket/package-info.java
index f7b59da2f1..9d4104f953 100644
--- a/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/websocket/package-info.java
+++ b/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/websocket/package-info.java
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@
  * are created by upgrading an HTTP request and are backed internally
  * by the non-blocking I/O reactor used by the HttpClient async APIs.</p>
  *
+ * <p><strong>Experimental.</strong> This module is experimental. Its public API is not yet stable
+ * and may change in an incompatible way, or be removed, in a future release; it is excluded from
+ * the project's binary and source backward-compatibility guarantees for the 5.7 release series.</p>
+ *
  * <h2>Core abstractions</h2>
  * <ul>
  *   <li>{@link org.apache.hc.client5.http.websocket.api.WebSocket WebSocket} –
diff --git a/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/websocket/package-info.java b/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/websocket/package-info.java
index 3394c70dd2..b445e38403 100644
--- a/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/websocket/package-info.java
+++ b/httpclient5-websocket/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/websocket/package-info.java
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
  * {@code util}, and {@code exceptions} are internal implementation details
  * and may change without notice.</p>
  *
+ * <p><strong>Experimental.</strong> This module is experimental. Its public API is not yet stable
+ * and may change in an incompatible way, or be removed, in a future release; it is excluded from
+ * the project's binary and source backward-compatibility guarantees for the 5.7 release series.</p>
+ *
  * @since 5.7
  */
 package org.apache.hc.core5.websocket;