diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2477b9e2..1879a402 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1376,6 +1376,9 @@ name = "semver"
 version = "1.0.12"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "a2333e6df6d6598f2b1974829f853c2b4c5f4a6e503c10af918081aa6f8564e1"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index da5d0c18..913a1fd7 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ mimalloc = { version = "0.1.29", default-features = false, optional = true }
 once_cell = "1.13.0"
 reqwest = { version = "0.11.11", features = ["stream"], default-features = false }
 scopeguard = "1.1.0"
-semver = "1.0.12"
+semver = { version = "1.0.12", features = ["serde"] }
 serde = { version = "1.0.140", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.82"
 simplelog = "0.12.0"
diff --git a/src/metafiles/binstall_v1.rs b/src/metafiles/binstall_v1.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e3f059f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/metafiles/binstall_v1.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+/*
+{
+    "name": "cargo-binstall",
+    "version_req": none,
+    "current_version": "0.10.0"
+    "source": {
+        "type": "Registry",
+        "url": "https://crates.io",
+     },
+     "target": none,
+     "bins": [
+         "cargo-binstall",
+      ],
+}
+ */