diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 76e1fe2f..880164b7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
-# milQuant 1.0.1 _tba_
+# milQuant 1.0.1 _2023-03-05_
 * clean up main.js a lot, restructure directory
 * restructure the menu bar at the top and add links to GitHub, the Miletus Excavation Homepage, and an about-window
 * add a modal for default settings to the topmenu so users have custom default connection settingson their computer and don't need to reenter password
 * remove bug where app would exit on every output from shiny
+* add electron-updater/autoUpdater
 * from milQuant: 
     * the connection settings (name/pw) are reusable (with milQuant-dist)
     * improved plot legends and added bar plot display options
     * fixed period order in pottery & quant B plots
     * fixed issue with dates
     * use plotly for all graphs
-    * add a workflow overview to allfinds plot
+    * add a workflow overview
     * add object table to pottery plot
 
 # milQuant 1.0.0 _2023-02-21_
diff --git a/R-win-port/load_packages.R b/R-win-port/load_packages.R
index 46b237f7..8b72a4be 100644
--- a/R-win-port/load_packages.R
+++ b/R-win-port/load_packages.R
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 packages <- c("shiny", "shinydashboard", "shinycssloaders", "shinyjs", "shinyWidgets",
-              "ggplot2", "dplyr", "reshape2", "viridis", "forcats", "tidyr",
+              "ggplot2", "dplyr", "reshape2", "viridis", "forcats", "tidyr", "DT",
               "remotes", "idaifieldR", "sofa", "plotly",
               "glue")
 for (p in packages) {
     if (p == "idaifieldR") {
       remotes::install_github("lsteinmann/idaifieldR@v0.2.2", lib = "library/", force = TRUE)
     } else {
-      install.packages(p, lib = "library/")
+      install.packages(p, lib = "library/", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
     }
 }
 rm(packages, p)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/main.js b/main.js
index 7c63e65e..23319f8e 100644
--- a/main.js
+++ b/main.js
@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const child = require('child_process');
 
 const { readDefaultSettings, settingsFileName } = require('./imports/settings');
-const { handleSquirrelEvent } = require('./imports/squirrel-handler')
 
+const { autoUpdater } = require('electron-updater')
+autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify()
+
+console.log(autoUpdater.getFeedURL())
 
 // not great to do that, maybe try to choose a random port?
 const port = "3002"
@@ -98,6 +101,7 @@ childProcess.stderr.on('data', (data) => {
 
 // with delayedLoad() : first, an empty loading.html is loaded, then after a 3-second timeout, the shiny url
 // this avoids the white screen that occurs if the windows loads before shiny is actually ready
+// TODO: Probably better to make this wait for shiny Listening.. notification in next version
 const delay = ms => new Promise(res => setTimeout(res, ms));
 const delayedLoad = async () => {
   mainWindow.loadFile('loading.html')
diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index d746a026..81ac69e7 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
       "name": "milQuant",
       "version": "1.0.1",
       "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
+      "dependencies": {
+        "electron-updater": "^5.3.0"
+      },
       "devDependencies": {
         "@electron-forge/cli": "^6.0.5",
         "@electron-forge/maker-deb": "^6.0.5",
@@ -704,6 +707,11 @@
         "@types/node": "*"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/@types/semver": {
+      "version": "7.3.13",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/semver/-/semver-7.3.13.tgz",
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+    },
     "node_modules/@types/yauzl": {
       "version": "2.10.0",
       "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/@types/yauzl/-/yauzl-2.10.0.tgz",
@@ -817,6 +825,11 @@
         "node": "^12.13.0 || ^14.15.0 || >=16.0.0"
       }
     },
+    "node_modules/argparse": {
+      "version": "2.0.1",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/argparse/-/argparse-2.0.1.tgz",
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+    },
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       "dev": true
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+    "node_modules/builder-util-runtime": {
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/builder-util-runtime/-/builder-util-runtime-9.1.1.tgz",
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+      "dependencies": {
+        "debug": "^4.3.4",
+        "sax": "^1.2.4"
+      },
+      "engines": {
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+      }
+    },
     "node_modules/cacache": {
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+    "node_modules/electron-updater": {
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+      "dependencies": {
+        "@types/semver": "^7.3.6",
+        "builder-util-runtime": "9.1.1",
+        "fs-extra": "^10.0.0",
+        "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
+        "lazy-val": "^1.0.5",
+        "lodash.escaperegexp": "^4.1.2",
+        "lodash.isequal": "^4.5.0",
+        "semver": "^7.3.5",
+        "typed-emitter": "^2.1.0"
+      }
+    },
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+        "argparse": "^2.0.1"
+      },
+      "bin": {
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+      }
+    },
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-      "dev": true,
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         "universalify": "^2.0.0"
       },
@@ -3090,6 +3138,11 @@
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+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/lazy-val/-/lazy-val-1.0.5.tgz",
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       }
@@ -4442,11 +4504,15 @@
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@@ -4935,6 +5000,14 @@
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 13a3427d..d7469bd2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,5 +35,8 @@
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     "electron": "^23.1.1",
     "electron-squirrel-startup": "^1.0.0"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "electron-updater": "^5.3.0"
   }
 }