diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6a777bb495abe0dd64291c728fd6ad41781c322c..5c9f0e4f34b396f43ff39d408b38efd2704e17af 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -53,6 +53,5 @@ thirdParty/qserialport-build-desktop/
 thirdParty/qserialport/bin/
 thirdParty/qserialport/lib/
 GeneratedFiles/
-/qupgrade/
 
 *.autosave
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3f0d4baa875cd82c4931d3c36aa90a71cfa91612
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+[submodule "qupgrade"]
+	path = qupgrade
+	url = https://github.com/LorenzMeier/qupgrade.git
diff --git a/qupgrade b/qupgrade
new file mode 160000
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..faa4f1a757b372ac1534d76cf996501b296557a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/qupgrade
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit faa4f1a757b372ac1534d76cf996501b296557a7