diff --git a/Core/autopsy-updates.xml b/Core/autopsy-updates.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..48a2898d70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Core/autopsy-updates.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
+
+<!DOCTYPE module_updates PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Autoupdate Catalog 2.5//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/autoupdate-catalog-2_7.dtd">
+
+<module_updates timestamp="03/01/21/12/03/2008">
+	
+<!--notification element goes here for user pop-up.  Attribute url is the URL to display along with the message contained between notification xml elements.
+-->
+
+<notification url="http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy">
+	Visit http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy to download the latest version of Autopsy.
+</notification>
+
+
+
+</module_updates>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/Bundle.properties b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/Bundle.properties
index b049fd4d82..1fef6eb2f5 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/Bundle.properties
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/Bundle.properties
@@ -8,3 +8,5 @@ OpenIDE-Module-Long-Description=\
     For more information, see http://www.sleuthkit.org/autopsy/
 OpenIDE-Module-Name=Autopsy-Core
 OpenIDE-Module-Short-Description=Autopsy Core Module
+org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_center=http://sleuthkit.org/autopsy-updates.xml
+Services/AutoupdateType/org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_center.settings=Autopsy Update Center
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/layer.xml b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/layer.xml
index 3b5b8b481e..f43b8285d6 100644
--- a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/layer.xml
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/layer.xml
@@ -270,6 +270,13 @@
          Services
          ====================================================== -->
     <folder name="Services">
+        <folder name="AutoupdateType">
+            <file name="org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_center.settings" url="org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_centerSettings.xml">
+                <attr name="displayName" bundlevalue="org.sleuthkit.autopsy.core.Bundle#Services/AutoupdateType/org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_center.settings"/>
+                <attr name="enabled" boolvalue="true"/>
+                <attr name="url" bundlevalue="org.sleuthkit.autopsy.core.Bundle#org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_center"/>
+            </file>
+        </folder>
         <file name="org-sleuthkit-autopsy-corecomponents-DataContentTopComponent.instance">
             <attr name="instanceOf" stringvalue="org.sleuthkit.autopsy.corecomponentinterfaces.DataContent"/>
             <attr name="instanceCreate" methodvalue="org.sleuthkit.autopsy.corecomponents.DataContentTopComponent.getDefault"/>
diff --git a/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_centerSettings.xml b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_centerSettings.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c1dbc1e41e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Core/src/org/sleuthkit/autopsy/core/org_sleuthkit_autopsy_core_update_centerSettings.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
+and open the template in the editor.
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE settings PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Session settings 1.0//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/sessionsettings-1_0.dtd">
+<settings version="1.0">
+    <module name="org.sleuthkit.autopsy.core/8"/>
+    <instanceof class="org.openide.ServiceType"/>
+    <instanceof class="org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.AutoupdateType"/>
+    <instanceof class="org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.XMLAutoupdateType"/>
+    <instance class="org.netbeans.modules.autoupdate.XMLAutoupdateType" method="createXMLAutoupdateType"/>
+</settings>