diff --git a/AppImageBuilder.yml b/AppImageBuilder.yml
index 45405d5..aefd761 100644
--- a/AppImageBuilder.yml
+++ b/AppImageBuilder.yml
@@ -80,6 +80,6 @@ AppDir:
       command: ./AppRun
 
 AppImage:
-  update-information: 'zsync|http://mirror.infra.pkm/nmreval/NMReval-latest.AppImage.zsync'
+  update-information: 'zsync|http://mirror.infra.pkm/nmreval/NMReval-latest-x86_64.AppImage.zsync'
   sign-key: None
   arch: x86_64
diff --git a/create_AppImage.bash b/tools/build.sh
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 100%
rename from create_AppImage.bash
rename to tools/build.sh
diff --git a/tools/upload_appimage.py b/tools/upload_appimage.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..95ad471
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/upload_appimage.py
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# from: https://github.com/kneufeld/minio-put/blob/master/minio-put.py
+import os
+import sys
+import glob
+import argparse
+import datetime
+import urllib.request
+import yaml
+import requests
+
+def upload(key, secret, host, bucket, filename, dest_name=None):
+    """
+    call this function when using this file as a library
+    date header must be relatively in sync with server or you
+    get forbidden error
+    returns True on success
+    raises on error
+    """
+    base_name = os.path.basename(filename)
+
+    try:
+        hostname, port = host.split(':')
+    except ValueError:
+        hostname = host
+
+    if dest_name:
+        resource     = f"/{bucket}/{dest_name}"
+    else:
+        resource     = f"/{bucket}/{base_name}"
+    content_type = "application/octet-stream"
+    date         = tznow().strftime('%a, %d %b %Y %X %z')
+    _signature   = f"PUT\n\n{content_type}\n{date}\n{resource}"
+    signature    = sig_hash(secret, _signature)
+
+    url = f"http://{host}{resource}"
+    headers = {
+        'Host':          hostname,
+        'Date':          date,                      # eg. Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:11:16 -0700
+        'Content-Type':  content_type,
+        'Authorization': f"AWS {key}:{signature}",
+    }
+    #import pprint
+    #pprint.pprint(headers)
+    #pprint.pprint(url)
+    filedata =  open(filename, 'rb')
+    #req = urllib.request.Request(url, data=filedata, method='PUT', headers=headers)
+    #resp = urllib.request.urlopen(req)
+    req = requests.put(url, data=filedata, headers=headers)
+    print(req)
+    return req or True
+
+# based on: https://gist.github.com/heskyji/5167567b64cb92a910a3
+def sig_hash(secret, sig):
+    import hashlib
+    import hmac
+    import base64
+
+    # signature=`echo -en ${sig} | openssl sha1 -hmac ${secret} -binary | base64`
+
+    secret     = bytes(secret, 'UTF-8')
+    sig        = bytes(sig, 'UTF-8')
+
+    digester   = hmac.new(secret, sig, hashlib.sha1)
+    signature1 = digester.digest()
+    signature2 = base64.standard_b64encode(signature1)
+    #signature2 = base64.urlsafe_b64encode(signature1)
+
+    return str(signature2, 'UTF-8')
+
+
+def tznow():
+    def utc_to_local(utc_dt):
+        return utc_dt.replace(tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc).astimezone(tz=None)
+
+    ts = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+    return utc_to_local(ts)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    key = os.environ["s3_key"]
+    secret = os.environ["s3_secret"]
+    host = "mirror.infra.pkm:9000"
+    bucket = "nmreval-appimage"
+    appimage_version = yaml.safe_load(open("AppImageBuilder.yml"))["AppDir"]["app_info"]["version"]
+    filenames = [f"NMReval-{appimage_version}-x86_64.AppImage",
+                f"NMReval-{appimage_version}-x86_64.AppImage.zsync",
+            ]
+    upload(key, secret, host, bucket,
+            f"NMReval-{appimage_version}-x86_64.AppImage")
+    upload(key, secret, host, bucket,
+            f"NMReval-{appimage_version}-x86_64.AppImage.zsync")
+    upload(key, secret, host, bucket,
+            f"NMReval-{appimage_version}-x86_64.AppImage.zsync",
+            f"NMReval-ldates-x86_64.AppImage.zsync")
+