diff --git a/flatc.json b/flatc.json
index e85276a630..995059700e 100644
--- a/flatc.json
+++ b/flatc.json
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-{
-    "homepage": "https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/index.html",
-    "license": "Apache2",
-    "version": "1.6.0",
-    "url": "https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/download/v1.6.0/flatc_windows_exe.zip",
-    "extract_dir": "",
-    "bin": "flatc.exe",
-    "hash": "e4ac8cdfa5e90c92e77715e998b9210fa86128b84a38a0fe9fec04c5b5f941c9"
-}
+{
+    "homepage": "https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/index.html",
+    "license": "Apache2",
+    "version": "1.6.0",
+    "url": "https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/download/v1.6.0/flatc_windows_exe.zip",
+    "extract_dir": "",
+    "bin": "flatc.exe",
+    "hash": "e4ac8cdfa5e90c92e77715e998b9210fa86128b84a38a0fe9fec04c5b5f941c9",
+    "checkver": {
+        "github": "https://github.com/google/flatbuffers"
+    },
+    "autoupdate": {
+        "url": "https://github.com/google/flatbuffers/releases/download/v$version/flatc_windows_exe.zip"
+    }
+}