diff --git a/data/locale/deutsch.locale b/data/locale/deutsch.locale
index 23888b6f1..cdc10eaa2 100644
--- a/data/locale/deutsch.locale
+++ b/data/locale/deutsch.locale
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ flashupdate.menu_apply_settings Settingsübernahme erlauben
 flashupdate.mkfs_create_image Backup erstellen
 flashupdate.mkfs_preparing_files Dateien und Verzeichnisse vorbereiten
 flashupdate.mkfs_using_sumtool Benutze Sumtool
-flashupdate.msgbox Es wurde folgende neue Datei gefunden:\nDatum: %s, %s\nBasisImage: %s\nTyp: %s\n\nWollen Sie diese Version jetzt herunterladen und installieren?
+flashupdate.msgbox Es wurde folgendes Update gefunden:\n%s %s vom %s, %s\n\nWollen Sie diese Version jetzt herunterladen?
 flashupdate.mtdselector Partitions-Auswahl
 flashupdate.namemode1 Dateiname Settingsfile
 flashupdate.namemode1_default <Org.Name>+settings.img
diff --git a/data/locale/english.locale b/data/locale/english.locale
index 3483b63df..5e84f66cb 100644
--- a/data/locale/english.locale
+++ b/data/locale/english.locale
@@ -712,7 +712,7 @@ flashupdate.menu_apply_settings Allow apply settings
 flashupdate.mkfs_create_image Create backup
 flashupdate.mkfs_preparing_files Preparing files and directories
 flashupdate.mkfs_using_sumtool Using sumtool
-flashupdate.msgbox Found the following new file:\nDate: %s, %s\nBaseImage: %s\nType: %s\n\nDo you want to download and install this version now?
+flashupdate.msgbox Found the following update:\n%s %s of %s, %s\n\nDo you want to download this version now?
 flashupdate.mtdselector Partition-Selector
 flashupdate.namemode1 Filename settingsfile
 flashupdate.namemode1_default <org.name>+settings.img
diff --git a/src/gui/imageinfo.cpp b/src/gui/imageinfo.cpp
index e1379cfc0..95acd1580 100644
--- a/src/gui/imageinfo.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/imageinfo.cpp
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ void CImageInfo::InitInfoData()
 	if (is_version_code && version_string.size() == 16){
 		static CFlashVersionInfo versionInfo(version_string.c_str());
 		if (oe_image_version.empty()){
-			version_string = versionInfo.getReleaseCycle();
+			version_string = versionInfo.getVersionString();
 			version_string += " ";
 			version_string += versionInfo.getType();
 			version_string += " (";
diff --git a/src/gui/update.cpp b/src/gui/update.cpp
index df4071394..e6a1672de 100644
--- a/src/gui/update.cpp
+++ b/src/gui/update.cpp
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ bool CFlashUpdate::selectHttpImage(void)
 
 	char currentleft[200];
 	char currentright[200];
-	snprintf(currentleft, 200, "%s %d - %s, %s", curInfo.getType(true), curInfo.getVersion(), curInfo.getDate(), curInfo.getTime());
+	snprintf(currentleft, 200, "%s %s - %s, %s", curInfo.getType(true), curInfo.getVersionString(), curInfo.getDate(), curInfo.getTime());
 	snprintf(currentright, 200, "%s %s", imagedescription.c_str(), imageversion.c_str());
 
 	CMenuWidget SelectionWidget(LOCALE_FLASHUPDATE_SELECTIMAGE, NEUTRINO_ICON_UPDATE, listWidth, MN_WIDGET_ID_IMAGESELECTOR);
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ bool CFlashUpdate::selectHttpImage(void)
 				fileTypes[i] = versionInfo.snapshot;
 				std::string description = versionInfo.getType(true);
 				description += " ";
-				description += versionInfo.getVersion();
+				description += versionInfo.getVersionString();
 				description += " - ";
 				description += versionInfo.getDate();
 				description += ", ";
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ bool CFlashUpdate::checkVersion4Update()
 		msg_body = LOCALE_FLASHUPDATE_MSGBOX;
 #ifdef SQUASHFS
 		versionInfo = new CFlashVersionInfo(newVersion);//Memory leak: versionInfo
-		sprintf(msg, g_Locale->getText(msg_body), versionInfo->getDate(), versionInfo->getTime(), versionInfo->getReleaseCycle(), versionInfo->getType(true));
+		sprintf(msg, g_Locale->getText(msg_body), versionInfo->getType(true), versionInfo->getVersionString(), versionInfo->getDate(), versionInfo->getTime());
 
 		if (gotImage)
 		{
diff --git a/src/system/flashtool.cpp b/src/system/flashtool.cpp
index f0db0348e..12ccbb1ff 100644
--- a/src/system/flashtool.cpp
+++ b/src/system/flashtool.cpp
@@ -463,23 +463,21 @@ CFlashVersionInfo::CFlashVersionInfo(const std::string & _versionString)
 	snapshot = versionString[0];
 
 	// recover release cycle version
+	// will be compared with RELEASE_CYCLE, which is defined in configure.ac as "x.0"
 	releaseCycle[0] = versionString[1];
 	releaseCycle[1] = '.';
-/*
-	if (versionString[2] == '0')
-	{
-		releaseCycle[2] = versionString[3];
-		releaseCycle[3] = 0;
-	}
-	else
-*/
-	{
-		releaseCycle[2] = versionString[2];
-		releaseCycle[3] = versionString[3];
-		releaseCycle[4] = 0;
-	}
+	releaseCycle[2] = '0';
+	releaseCycle[3] = 0;
+
+	// human readable version
+	vstring[0] = versionString[1];
+	vstring[1] = '.';
+	vstring[2] = versionString[2];
+	vstring[3] = versionString[3];
+	vstring[4] = 0;
+
+	version = atoi(&versionString[1])*100 + atoi(&versionString[2])*10 + atoi(&versionString[3]);
 
-	version = atoi(&releaseCycle[0]) * 100 + atoi(&releaseCycle[2]);
 	// recover date
 	struct tm tt;
 	memset(&tt, 0, sizeof(tt));
@@ -561,6 +559,11 @@ int CFlashVersionInfo::getVersion(void) const
 	return version;
 }
 
+const char *CFlashVersionInfo::getVersionString(void) const
+{
+	return vstring;
+}
+
 //-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 CMTDInfo::CMTDInfo()
diff --git a/src/system/flashtool.h b/src/system/flashtool.h
index 86a1a3b97..7fb6bd2dc 100644
--- a/src/system/flashtool.h
+++ b/src/system/flashtool.h
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ class CFlashVersionInfo
 	
 	char date[11];
 	char time[6];
-	char releaseCycle[5];
+	char releaseCycle[4];
+	char vstring[5]; // human readable version
 	int  version;
 	time_t datetime;
 	
@@ -92,7 +93,8 @@ class CFlashVersionInfo
 	const char *getTime(void) const;
 	const char *getReleaseCycle(void) const;
 	const char *getType(bool localized = false) const;
-	int   getVersion(void) const;
+	int getVersion(void) const;
+	const char *getVersionString(void) const;
 	time_t getDateTime(void) const { return datetime; };
 };