diff --git a/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py b/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
index 5cd7987..e0de983 100644
--- a/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
+++ b/wo/cli/plugins/stack_pref.py
@@ -1468,4 +1468,12 @@ def pre_stack(self):
                 '*         soft    nofile      500000\n'
                 'root      hard    nofile      500000\n'
                 'root      soft    nofile      500000\n')
-    Log.valide(self, 'Applying Linux tweaks')
+    # custom motd-news
+    data = dict()
+    if os.path.isdir('/etc/update-motd.d/'):
+        if not os.path.isfile('/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update'):
+            WOTemplate.deploy(
+                self, '/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update',
+                'wo-update.mustache', data)
+        WOFileUtils.chmod(
+            self, "/etc/update-motd.d/98-wo-update", 0o755)
diff --git a/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache b/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..be5091b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/wo/cli/templates/wo-update.mustache
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# script to update motd when a new WordOps release is available on Debian/Ubuntu
+# the script is added in /etc/update-motd.d
+
+safe_print() {
+    cat "$1" | head -n 10 | tr -d '\000-\011\013\014\016-\037' | cut -c -80
+}
+
+# Ensure sane defaults
+[ -n "$URL" ] || URL="https://github.com/WordOps/WordOps/releases/latest"
+[ -n "$WAIT" ] || WAIT=5
+[ -n "$CACHE" ] || CACHE="/var/cache/motd-wo"
+
+# Generate our temp files, clean up when done
+NEWS=$(mktemp) || exit 1
+ERR=$(mktemp) || exit 1
+CLOUD=$(mktemp) || exit 1
+trap "rm -f $NEWS $ERR $CLOUD" HUP INT QUIT ILL TRAP BUS TERM
+
+if [ -n "$(command -v curl > /dev/null 2>&1)" ]; then
+    LATEST_RELEASE=$(curl -m 5 --retry 3 -sI "$URL" | grep tag | awk -F "/" '{print $8}' 2>&1)
+fi
+if [ -n "$(command -v wo > /dev/null 2>&1)" ]; then
+    CURRENT_RELEASE=$(wo -v 2>&1 | grep v | awk -F " " '{print $2}')
+fi
+if [ -n "$CURRENT_RELEASE" ] && [ -n "$LATEST_RELEASE" ]; then
+    if [ "$CURRENT_RELEASE" != "$LATEST_RELEASE" ]; then
+        # display message with motd-news on Ubuntu
+        echo '*** A new WordOps release is available ***' > "$NEWS" 2> "$ERR"
+
+        echo
+        # At most, 10 lines of text, remove control characters, print at most 80 characters per line
+        safe_print "$NEWS"
+        # Try to update the cache
+        safe_print "$NEWS" 2> /dev/null > $CACHE || true
+    fi
+fi
diff --git a/wo/core/fileutils.py b/wo/core/fileutils.py
index 87a3da6..5f9ed35 100644
--- a/wo/core/fileutils.py
+++ b/wo/core/fileutils.py
@@ -343,3 +343,16 @@ class WOFileUtils():
                     # If it's not a symlink we're not interested.
                     continue
         return True
+
+    def writein(self, path, content):
+        """
+            Write content in path
+        """
+        Log.debug(self, "Writing content in {0}".format(path))
+        try:
+            with open("{0}".format(path),
+                      encoding='utf-8', mode='w') as final_file:
+                final_file.write('{0}'.format(content))
+        except IOError as e:
+            Log.debug(self, "{0}".format(e))
+            Log.error(self, "Unable to write content in {0}".format(path))