install-and-setup.md: document binary installation with cargo-binstall

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@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### New features
 
+* `jj`'s stable release can now be installed with [`cargo binstall jj-cli`](https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall).
+
 * `jj workspace add` now takes a `--revision` argument.
 
 * `jj workspace forget` can now forget multiple workspaces at once.

diff --git a/docs/install-and-setup.md b/docs/install-and-setup.md
@@ -9,9 +9,23 @@ There are [pre-built binaries](https://github.com/martinvonz/jj/releases/latest)
 of the last released version of `jj` for Windows, Mac, or Linux (the "musl"
 version should work on all distributions).
 
+
 If you'd like to install a prerelease version, you'll need to use one of the
 options below.
 
+#### Cargo BInstall
+
+If you use [`cargo-binstall`](https://github.com/cargo-bins/cargo-binstall), you
+can install the same release binaries as follows:
+
+```shell
+# Will put the jj binary for the latest release in ~/.cargo/bin by default
+cargo binstall --strategy crate-meta-data jj-cli
+```
+
+Without the `--strategy` option, you may get equivalent binaries compiled from
+the same source code.
+
 
 ### Linux