diff --git a/admin/panels/maintain/admin.maintain.php b/admin/panels/maintain/admin.maintain.php
index 8c46829..9422f15 100755
--- a/admin/panels/maintain/admin.maintain.php
+++ b/admin/panels/maintain/admin.maintain.php
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@
 	
 	class admin_maintain_updates extends AdminPanelAction {
 		
-		var $web = 'http://www.flatpress.org/fp/VERSION';
+		var $web = 'http://flatpress.org/fp/VERSION';
 		var $fpweb = 'http://www.flatpress.org/home/blog.php';
-		var $sfweb = 'http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=157089';
+		var $sfweb = 'http://sourceforge.net/projects/flatpress/files/';
 	
 		function main() {
 			$success = -1;
@@ -88,21 +88,19 @@
 					'unstable'=>'unknown',
 				);
 		
-			$f = @fopen($this->web, 'r');
+			$file = utils_geturl($this->web);
+
 			
-			if ($f) {
-				$file='';
-				while(!feof($f)) {
-					$file .= fgets($f);
-				}
-				if ($file){
-					$ver = utils_kexplode($file);
-					
-					if (strcmp($ver['stable'], SYSTEM_VER)>0)
-						$success = 1;
-					else
-						$success = 2;
+			if ($file) {
+				$ver = utils_kexplode($file['content']);
+				if (!isset($ver['stable']))  { $success = -1; }
+				elseif (system_ver_compare($ver['stable'], SYSTEM_VER)) {
+					$success = 1;
+				} else {
+					$success = 2;
 				}
+			} else {
+				$success = -1;
 			}
 			
 			
diff --git a/fp-includes/core/core.system.php b/fp-includes/core/core.system.php
index 130ad7d..a6e53ba 100755
--- a/fp-includes/core/core.system.php
+++ b/fp-includes/core/core.system.php
@@ -77,7 +77,28 @@
 	function system_ver() {
 		return 'fp-' . SYSTEM_VER;
 	}
-	
+
+	function system_ver_compare($newver, $oldver) {
+		$nv_arr = explode('.', $newver);
+		$ov_arr = explode('.', $oldver);
+		$cn = count($nv_arr);
+		$co = count($ov_arr);
+		$max = min($cn, $co);
+
+		// let's compare if one of the first version numbers differs
+		// from new version, being greater
+		for ($i=0; $i<$max; $i++) {
+			if ( $nv_arr[ $i ] > $ov_arr[ $i ] ) { return 1; }
+			if ( $nv_arr[ $i ] < $ov_arr[ $i ] ) { return 0; }
+		}
+
+		// if they equals, but still new version has more digits
+		// then old-version is still outdated
+		if ($cn > $co) return 1;
+
+		
+	}
+
 	function system_generate_id($string) {
 		return 'fp-'.dechex(crc32($string) ^ mt_rand());
 	}
diff --git a/fp-includes/core/core.utils.php b/fp-includes/core/core.utils.php
index 3febfc0..3ca8f2d 100644
--- a/fp-includes/core/core.utils.php
+++ b/fp-includes/core/core.utils.php
@@ -354,6 +354,50 @@ if (!function_exists('fnmatch')) {
 	        @ header('Pragma: no-cache');
 	}
 
+// from http://nadeausoftware.com/articles/2007/06/php_tip_how_get_web_page_using_curl
+// code under OSI BSD
+/**
+ * Get a web file (HTML, XHTML, XML, image, etc.) from a URL.  Return an
+ * array containing the HTTP server response header fields and content.
+ */
+function utils_geturl($url) {
+	/*
+	if (ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
+		return array('content' => io_load_file($url));
+	}
+	*/
+	if (!function_exists('curl_init')) {
+		trigger_error('curl extension is not installed');
+		return array();
+	}
+
+    $options = array(
+        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
+        CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
+        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
+        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
+        CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
+        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
+        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
+        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
+        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
+    );
+
+    $ch      = curl_init( $url );
+    curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
+    $content = curl_exec( $ch );
+    $err     = curl_errno( $ch );
+    $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );
+    $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );
+    curl_close( $ch );
+
+    $header['errno']   = $err;
+    $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;
+    $header['content'] = $content;
+    return $header;
+}
+
+
 	
 	function utils_checksmarty() {