diff --git a/getvbit2 b/getvbit2
index 5733d30..ffa0d09 100644
--- a/getvbit2
+++ b/getvbit2
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ echo "Installing vbit2"
 #install vbit2
 git clone https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2.git ~/vbit2
 cd ~/vbit2
+git fetch --tags
+latestTag=`curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/peterkvt80/vbit2/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")'`
+git checkout $latestTag # switch to latest 
 make
 
 echo "Installing raspi-teletext"
diff --git a/update.sh b/update.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..7fa868a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/update.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+echo Updating to latest stable version of vbit2
+git fetch --tags
+latestTag=`curl --silent "https://api.github.com/repos/peterkvt80/vbit2/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")'`
+git checkout $latestTag # switch to latest 
+make