diff --git a/renderer/src/modules/updater.js b/renderer/src/modules/updater.js
index 7514f508..1e65bfd3 100644
--- a/renderer/src/modules/updater.js
+++ b/renderer/src/modules/updater.js
@@ -134,6 +134,25 @@ export class CoreUpdater {
     }
 }
 
+const semverRegex = /^[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$/;
+
+/**
+ * This works on basic semantic versioning e.g. "1.0.0".
+ * 
+ * @param {string} currentVersion
+ * @param {string} content
+ * @returns {boolean} whether there is an update
+ */
+function semverComparator(currentVersion, remoteVersion) {
+    currentVersion = currentVersion.split(".").map((e) => {return parseInt(e);});
+    remoteVersion = remoteVersion.split(".").map((e) => {return parseInt(e);});
+
+    if (remoteVersion[0] > currentVersion[0]) return true;
+    else if (remoteVersion[0] == currentVersion[0] && remoteVersion[1] > currentVersion[1]) return true;
+    else if (remoteVersion[0] == currentVersion[0] && remoteVersion[1] == currentVersion[1] && remoteVersion[2] > currentVersion[2]) return true;
+    return false;
+}
+
 
 class AddonUpdater {
 
@@ -176,7 +195,10 @@ class AddonUpdater {
         if (this.pending.includes(filename)) return;
         const info = this.cache[path.basename(filename)];
         if (!info) return;
-        const hasUpdate = info.version != currentVersion;
+        let hasUpdate = info.update > currentVersion;
+        if (semverRegex.test(info.version) && semverRegex.test(currentVersion)) {
+            hasUpdate = semverComparator(currentVersion, info.version);
+        }
         if (!hasUpdate) return;
         this.pending.push(filename);
     }