diff --git a/InvenTree/InvenTree/tasks.py b/InvenTree/InvenTree/tasks.py
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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import json
+import requests
+import logging
+
+from datetime import timedelta
+
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+def delete_successful_tasks():
+    """
+    Delete successful task logs
+    which are more than a week old.
+    """
+
+    pass
+
+def check_for_updates():
+    """
+    Check if there is an update for InvenTree
+    """
+
+    response = requests.get('https://api.github.com/repos/inventree/inventree/releases/latest')
+
+    if not response.status_code == 200:
+        logger.warning(f'Unexpected status code from GitHub API: {response.status_code}')
+        return
+
+    data = json.loads(response.text)
+
+    # TODO 
+
+
+def test(x):
+    print(f"Running at task! {x}")
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