diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 453273535664e2902a743a6e6132d6443589699d..b5b27b6c035eccd58a4c16a6d3a9760b38bb5c4b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+*.changes
 *.deb
 maharadocs-1.5/debian/files
 maharadocs-1.5/debian/maharadocs.debhelper.log
diff --git a/maharadocs-1.7/debian/changelog b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/changelog
index 1e8e8d9342aa65dcbfd29022e78c354653cb3ceb..2135312ace63c6d7ff32aeea83f4fbd05de34ffb 100644
--- a/maharadocs-1.7/debian/changelog
+++ b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+maharadocs (16.10-1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  * Move old versions of manuals from daily to monthly cron.
+  * New cron job in /etc/cron.monthly to build old versions.
+  * Adds a timestamp to the log.
+
+ -- Jonathan Harker <jonathan@catalyst.net.nz>  Thu, 13 Oct 2016 12:57:31 +1300
+
 maharadocs (15.04-4) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * Adding generation for 15.10 
diff --git a/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.daily b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.daily
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index ece051fa358dc60bc2f9454c9152838395cd2bd9..c31c23f9d5d06118ddc0e4afc903e6ba850af134
--- a/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.daily
+++ b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.daily
@@ -11,15 +11,14 @@ LOGDIR=$RET
 LOGFILE=${LOGDIR}/update.log
 
 cd $INSTALLDIR
+
+# Add a useful timestamp
+echo ==================================== >> $LOGFILE
+date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'              >> $LOGFILE
+echo ==================================== >> $LOGFILE
+
 git pull >> $LOGFILE
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.4  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.5  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.6  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.7  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.8  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.9  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.10  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=15.04  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
-make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=15.10  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+
+# Move old versions to the monthly cron in /etc/cron.monthly/
 make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=16.04  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
 make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=16.10  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
diff --git a/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.monthly b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.monthly
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..a952f15b81fa03aed153180871370d7d146f693a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/maharadocs-1.7/debian/maharadocs.cron.monthly
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -e
+export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
+. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
+PACKAGE=`basename $0 .postinst`
+
+db_get maharadocs/installdir
+INSTALLDIR=$RET
+db_get maharadocs/logdir
+LOGDIR=$RET
+LOGFILE=${LOGDIR}/update.log
+
+cd $INSTALLDIR
+
+# Add a useful timestamp
+echo ==================================== >> $LOGFILE
+echo             Monthly run              >> $LOGFILE
+date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'              >> $LOGFILE
+echo ==================================== >> $LOGFILE
+
+git pull >> $LOGFILE
+
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.4  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.5  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.6  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.7  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.8  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.9  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=1.10  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=15.04  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1
+make -C $INSTALLDIR update html epub MAHARA=15.10  >> $LOGFILE 2>&1