diff --git a/project.yml b/project.yml
index e02a059..10af09d 100644
--- a/project.yml
+++ b/project.yml
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@
 # Use github's distribution mechanism for core ASF libraries.
 # This provides mirroring automatically for us.
 #
+# if you want to stay up to date with the latest version of 1.1
+# change 1.1.0 to "1-latest"
 repository.apache-mynewt-core:
     type: github
-    vers: 1-latest
+    vers: 1.1.0
     user: apache
     repo: mynewt-core