diff --git a/modules/openstackid/files/functions b/modules/openstackid/files/functions
index 6fcfaf2e51..4a5b22a3a2 100644
--- a/modules/openstackid/files/functions
+++ b/modules/openstackid/files/functions
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ function site_init() {
     chown $FILE_OWNER:$FILE_GROUP $SITE_ROOT/$dir
   done
   target_dir="$SITE_ROOT/slot0"
+  # fetch catalog and write actual version
+  fetch_catalog
+  RELEASE_VERSION=`catalog_get_version`
+  echo $RELEASE_VERSION > $SITE_ROOT/slot0/release
   # fetch and extract release tarball
   umask 0027
   if [[ $SOURCE_TARBALL == http* ]]; then
@@ -86,10 +90,28 @@ function site_status() {
       exit 1
     fi
   else
-    echo "INSTALLED"
+    fetch_catalog
+    REMOTE_VERSION=`catalog_get_version`
+    RELEASE_VERSION=$(head -n 1 $SITE_ROOT/w/release)
+    if [ "$REMOTE_VERSION" == "$RELEASE_VERSION" ]; then
+      echo "INSTALLED [$RELEASE_VERSION]"
+    else
+      echo "UPDATE AVAILABLE [$RELEASE_VERSION-$REMOTE_VERSION]"
+    fi
   fi
 }
 
+function fetch_catalog() {
+  curl --silent $SOURCE_ROOT > $SITE_ROOT/releases.lst
+  grep -q "^<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC" $SITE_ROOT/releases.lst
+}
+
+function catalog_get_version() {
+  RAW_LINE=`cat $SITE_ROOT/releases.lst | grep "$RELEASE_NAME" | sed "s/<[^>]\+>//g" | sed -r "s/^$RELEASE_NAME//"`
+  RELEASE_DATE=`echo $RAW_LINE | awk '{ print $1 " " $2}'`
+  echo $RELEASE_DATE
+}
+
 function site_update() {
   if [ ! $1 ]; then
     echo "ERROR: missing site parameter"
diff --git a/modules/openstackid/templates/openstackid.conf.erb b/modules/openstackid/templates/openstackid.conf.erb
index 30e81c2f7d..9d11831986 100644
--- a/modules/openstackid/templates/openstackid.conf.erb
+++ b/modules/openstackid/templates/openstackid.conf.erb
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 SITE_ROOT=/srv/openstackid
 SOURCE_TARBALL=http://tarballs.openstack.org/openstackid/openstackid-latest.tar.gz
-LARAVEL_ENV=dev
\ No newline at end of file
+LARAVEL_ENV=dev
+RELEASE_NAME=openstackid-latest.tar.gz
+SOURCE_ROOT=http://tarballs.openstack.org/openstackid/
\ No newline at end of file