diff --git a/conf/msg b/conf/msg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a5b98b2b022c4faa7c3b44a290cebdfd96e51b6a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/msg
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+2
+The first line of this file contains a number, indicating
+which notification messages should not be displayed. This
+is the only information sent to dokuwiki.org when the
+updatecheck option is enabled. You usually don't need to
+change this number as it gets updated when you install the
+new release - but to ignore a certain message set it's
+number here.
diff --git a/inc/infoutils.php b/inc/infoutils.php
index fcaba23cf996497ae2acfea5029298766a1cb89b..c619da2ac55630777f742d0c76b9e66e27546ffa 100644
--- a/inc/infoutils.php
+++ b/inc/infoutils.php
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
  * @author     Andreas Gohr <andi@splitbrain.org>
  */
 if(!defined('DOKU_INC')) define('DOKU_INC',realpath(dirname(__FILE__).'/../').'/');
-if(!defined('DOKU_MESSAGEURL')) define('DOKU_MESSAGEURL','http://www.splitbrain.org/lib/exe/msg.php?msg=');
+if(!defined('DOKU_MESSAGEURL')) define('DOKU_MESSAGEURL','http://update.dokuwiki.org/check/');
 require_once(DOKU_INC.'inc/HTTPClient.php');
 
 /**
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ function checkUpdateMessages(){
     global $conf;
     global $INFO;
     if(!$conf['updatecheck']) return;
-    if($INFO['perm'] < AUTH_ADMIN) return;
+    if($conf['useacl'] && $INFO['perm'] < AUTH_ADMIN) return;
 
     $cf = $conf['cachedir'].'/messages.txt';
     $lm = @filemtime($cf);