diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 0495c860..5d164960 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -1,8 +1,17 @@
 name: CI
-on: [push, pull_request]
+on: 
+  push:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
+    tags-ignore: [ '**' ]
+    paths-ignore: [ '**.md', '**.adoc' ]
+  pull_request:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
+    paths-ignore: [ '**.md', '**.adoc' ]
+
 jobs:
   build:
-    runs-on: [ "ubuntu-latest" ]
+    if: contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'deploy+') == false
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
     strategy:
       matrix:
         env:
@@ -10,9 +19,9 @@ jobs:
           - { CXX: clang++, CC: clang, CXX_FOR_BUILD: clang++, CC_FOR_BUILD: clang }
     steps:
       - name: checkout-source
-        uses: actions/checkout@v2
-      - name: checkout-submodules
-        run: git submodule update --init --recursive
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
       - name: update-system
         run: sudo apt-get update -qq
       - name: install-deps
@@ -24,3 +33,4 @@ jobs:
           cd build
           cmake ..
           make
+
diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d620c010
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+name: DEPLOY
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches: [ '**' ]
+    tags-ignore: [ '**' ]
+
+jobs:
+
+  build:
+    if: contains(github.event.head_commit.message, 'deploy+')
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        container: [ "ubuntu:18.04", "ubuntu:19.10", "ubuntu:20.04", "debian:9", "debian:10", "fedora:29", "fedora:30", "fedora:31", "fedora:32", "archlinux:latest" ]
+        # this list should be updated from time to time by consulting these pages:
+        # https://releases.ubuntu.com/
+        # https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases#Production_Releases
+        # https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    container:
+      image: ${{ matrix.container }}
+      env:
+        DIST: ${{ matrix.container }}
+        DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout-source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: run-builder
+        shell: bash
+        run: ./tools/build.sh
+      - name: upload-artifacts
+        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
+        with:
+          name: package-archives
+          path: artifact
+
+  deploy:
+    needs: build
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    container:
+      image: "archlinux:latest"
+    env:
+      BINTRAY_USER: ${{ secrets.BINTRAY_USER }}
+      BINTRAY_APIKEY: ${{ secrets.BINTRAY_APIKEY }}
+      BINTRAY_GPG_DATA: ${{ secrets.GPG_DATA }}
+      BINTRAY_GPG_ID: ${{ secrets.GPG_ID }}
+      JFROG_CLI_OFFER_CONFIG: false
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout-source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+      - name: install-jfrog-cli
+        uses: jfrog/setup-jfrog-cli@v1
+      - name: download-artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
+        with:
+          name: package-archives
+          path: artifact
+      - name: bintray-publish
+        shell: bash
+        run: ./tools/publish.sh
+
+  release:
+    needs: deploy
+    runs-on: "ubuntu-latest"
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout-source
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
+      - name: get-version
+        id: get_version
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          RELEASE_VERSION=$(cat version.txt | head -n1)
+          echo ::set-output name=RELEASE_VERSION::$RELEASE_VERSION
+      - name: download-artifacts
+        uses: actions/download-artifact@v1
+        with:
+          name: package-archives
+          path: artifact
+      - name: create-release
+        id: create_release
+        uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
+        with:
+          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          tag: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.RELEASE_VERSION }}
+          name: ${{ steps.get_version.outputs.RELEASE_VERSION }}
+          artifacts: "artifact/*"
+          allowUpdates: true
+          draft: true
+          body: |
+            [![Github Releases (by Release)](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/${{ github.repository }}/${{ steps.get_version.outputs.RELEASE_VERSION }}/total.svg)]()
+            ### Changes in this release:
+            - ...
+
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index d23b7697..8850bc3e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.0.2)
 set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
 
-project(OpenBangla-Keyboard VERSION 2.0.0)
+file(STRINGS "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/version.txt" VERSION_STRING LIMIT_COUNT 1 REGEX "^.+")
+project("OpenBangla-Keyboard" VERSION ${VERSION_STRING})
 set(APP_NAME "OpenBangla-Keyboard")
 
 ## Set versions
@@ -75,8 +76,8 @@ endif ()
 
 
 set(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_SUMMARY "OpenSource Bengali input method")
-set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VENDOR "Muhammad Mominul Huque")
-set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER "Muhammad Mominul Huque <mominul2082@gmail.com>")
+set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VENDOR "OpenBangla Team")
+set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_MAINTAINER "OpenBangla Team <openbanglateam@gmail.com>")
 set(CPACK_PACKAGE_DESCRIPTION_FILE "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/Readme.txt")
 set(CPACK_RESOURCE_FILE_LICENSE "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/LICENSE")
 set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MAJOR "${PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR}")
@@ -84,12 +85,12 @@ set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_MINOR "${PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR}")
 set(CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION_PATCH "${PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH}")
 set(CPACK_PACKAGE_FILE_NAME "${PROJECT_NAME}_${PROJECT_VERSION}-$ENV{DIST}")
 set(CPACK_STRIP_FILES TRUE)
-set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE "http://openbangla.github.io/")
+set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_HOMEPAGE "https://openbangla.github.io/")
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_SECTION "utils")
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_DEPENDS "ibus (>= 1.5.1)")
 set(CPACK_DEBIAN_PACKAGE_SHLIBDEPS ON)
 set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_LICENSE "GPLv3")
-set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_URL "http://openbangla.github.io/")
+set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_URL "https://openbangla.github.io/")
 set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_REQUIRES "qt5-qtbase >= 5.9.0, ibus >= 1.5.1, ibus-libs >= 1.5.1")
 set(CPACK_RPM_PACKAGE_RELEASE_DIST ON)
 # Prevents CPack from generating file conflicts
diff --git a/src/engine/riti b/src/engine/riti
index b1b94470..f3b53dd3 160000
--- a/src/engine/riti
+++ b/src/engine/riti
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit b1b94470aee8b8ed78268b2a4896f7a71a02ca89
+Subproject commit f3b53dd3881aa237c80941854ce03e66af9346a5
diff --git a/tools/LICENSE b/tools/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..81c823e9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+MIT License
+
+Copyright (c) 2018 OpenBangla
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
+copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
+SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/tools/PKGBUILD.stub b/tools/PKGBUILD.stub
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7483b7ee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/PKGBUILD.stub
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Maintainer: OpenBangla Team <openbanglateam@gmail.com>
+# THIS IS A *PARTIAL* PKGBUILD TEMPLATE FOR CUSTOM AUTOBUILD PROCESS ONLY
+pkgname="openbangla-keyboard"
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="An OpenSource, Unicode compliant Bengali Input Method"
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="https://openbangla.github.io"
+license=('GPL3')
+depends=('ibus' 'qt5-base')
+build() {
+    cd "$srcdir"
+    mkdir build && cd build
+    cmake ..
+    make
+}
+package() {
+    cd "$srcdir"
+    make -C build DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+}
+
diff --git a/tools/README.md b/tools/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a9d7cbb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+# buildman
+
+Builds OpenBangla Keyboard packages for various distributions.
+
+- A lightweight C/I workflow runs by default on each commit.
+- if commit message has the string `deploy+`, then a deploy workflow runs instead of the default one.
+  - if build passes, this workflow will deploy packages to repositories, and create a github release.
diff --git a/tools/build.sh b/tools/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ee4c8727
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#! /bin/bash
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(cat version.txt | head -n1)
+# follow cmake PACKAGE_FILE_NAME directive in main repo
+RELEASE_STUB="OpenBangla-Keyboard_${RELEASE_VERSION}-"
+
+makeDeb () {
+    RELEASE_FILENAME="${RELEASE_STUB}${DIST}.deb"
+    apt-get -y install build-essential cmake libibus-1.0-dev qt5-default rustc cargo ninja-build curl
+    cmake -H"$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" -B/build -GNinja -DCPACK_GENERATOR=DEB
+    ninja package -C /build
+    RELEASE_FILE="/build/${RELEASE_FILENAME}"
+}
+
+makeRpm () {
+    RELEASE_FILENAME="${RELEASE_STUB}${DIST}.rpm"
+    dnf install -y --allowerasing @buildsys-build cmake ibus-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel rust cargo ninja-build
+    cmake -H"$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" -B/build -GNinja -DCPACK_GENERATOR=RPM
+    ninja package -C /build
+    RELEASE_FILE="/build/${RELEASE_FILENAME}"
+}
+
+makeArch () {
+    DIST=archlinux
+    echo "PACKAGER='OpenBangla Team <openbanglateam@gmail.com>'" >> /etc/makepkg.conf
+    PKGEXT=".pkg.tar.zst"
+    echo "PKGEXT='$PKGEXT'" >> /etc/makepkg.conf
+    RELEASE_FILENAME="${RELEASE_STUB}${DIST}${PKGEXT}"
+    pacman -S --noconfirm --needed base-devel cmake libibus qt5-base rust curl
+    mkdir /build
+    cd /build
+    cp -fpr "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE" /build/src
+    cp "${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/tools/PKGBUILD.stub" /build/PKGBUILD
+    sed -i "/pkgname=/a pkgver=\"${RELEASE_VERSION}\"" /build/PKGBUILD
+    useradd -m builder
+    chown -R builder:builder /build
+    sudo -u builder makepkg -fd --skipinteg
+    mv openbangla-keyboard-*${PKGEXT} ${RELEASE_FILENAME}
+    RELEASE_FILE=$(realpath "${RELEASE_FILENAME}")
+}
+
+if [[ $DIST =~ ^(ubuntu|debian) ]]; then
+    apt-get -qq update
+    apt-get -y install git
+    # this is to read distro codename from filename during deployment
+    CODENAME=$(cat /etc/os-release | grep "VERSION_CODENAME" | cut -d= -f2)
+    DIST="${DIST}-${CODENAME}"
+    BUILDFUNC=makeDeb
+elif [[ $DIST =~ ^fedora ]]; then
+    dnf -y --allowerasing distro-sync
+    dnf -y install git
+    BUILDFUNC=makeRpm
+elif [[ $DIST =~ ^archlinux ]]; then
+    pacman -Syyu --noconfirm --needed
+    pacman -S --noconfirm --needed base git
+    BUILDFUNC=makeArch
+fi
+
+DIST=${DIST/:/}
+${BUILDFUNC}
+
+DEPLOY_PATH="${GITHUB_WORKSPACE}/artifact"
+mkdir "$DEPLOY_PATH"
+mv "$RELEASE_FILE" "${DEPLOY_PATH}/"
+
diff --git a/tools/publish.sh b/tools/publish.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..0c7113e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/publish.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,92 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+ORG='openbangla'
+PACKAGE='openbangla-keyboard'
+DISTLIST=(ubuntu debian fedora archlinux)
+RELEASE_VERSION=$(cat version.txt | head -n1)
+jfrog bt config --user "$BINTRAY_USER" --key "$BINTRAY_APIKEY" --licenses 'GPL-3.0'
+pacman -Syyuu --noconfirm --needed jq rpm
+cd artifact
+
+gpgImport () {
+    echo -e "-----BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----\n\n${BINTRAY_GPG_DATA}\n-----END PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK-----" \
+    | gpg --import 2> /dev/null
+}
+
+pubDeb () {
+    # prepare an ordered list of ubuntu release {version:codename} dict
+    curl https://api.launchpad.net/devel/ubuntu/series \
+    | jq -M '.entries|sort_by(.version|tonumber)|map({(.version): .name})' \
+    | sed -r 's/[][ ,"\{\}]//g' \
+    | grep -v '^\s*$' \
+    > dists.txt
+    for PKG in $(ls ./*${REPO}* 2>/dev/null); do
+        # read distro code from filename
+        CODENAME=$(echo "$PKG" | grep -oP '[^-]+.deb$' | cut -d. -f1)
+        jfrog bt upload --publish --override --deb "${CODENAME}/main/amd64" "$PKG" "$VERSION_PATH"
+        if [ $REPO == ubuntu ]; then
+            # we only build for major/first yearly releases.
+            # this block uploads the package for the other version in the same range
+            VERSION_STR=$(grep "$CODENAME" dists.txt)
+            VERSION_MAJOR=$(echo "$VERSION_STR" | cut -d. -f1)
+            OTHER_VERSION_STR=$(grep "^${VERSION_MAJOR}\." dists.txt | grep -v "$CODENAME")
+            if [ -n "$OTHER_VERSION_STR" ]; then
+                OTHER_CODENAME=$(echo "$OTHER_VERSION_STR" | cut -d: -f2)
+                OTHER_VERSION_STR=${OTHER_VERSION_STR/:/-}
+                VERSION_STR=${VERSION_STR/:/-}
+                ln -frs "$PKG" "${PKG/$VERSION_STR/$OTHER_VERSION_STR}"
+                jfrog bt upload --publish --override --deb "${OTHER_CODENAME}/main/amd64" ./*${OTHER_CODENAME}.deb "$VERSION_PATH"
+            fi
+        fi
+    done
+}
+
+pubRpm () {
+    gpgImport
+    ARCH='x86_64'
+    gpg --export -a "${BINTRAY_GPG_ID}" > pubkey.asc
+    rpm --import pubkey.asc
+    rm pubkey.asc
+    echo "%_signature gpg" > "${HOME}/.rpmmacros"
+    echo "%_gpg_name ${BINTRAY_GPG_ID}" >> "${HOME}/.rpmmacros"
+    for PKG in $(ls ./*${REPO}* 2>/dev/null); do
+        rpm --addsign "$PKG"
+        VERSION_ID=$(echo "$PKG" | grep -oP '[\d]+.rpm$' | cut -d. -f1)
+        jfrog bt upload --publish --override "$PKG" "$VERSION_PATH" "${VERSION_ID}/${ARCH}/"
+    done
+}
+
+pubArch () {
+    gpgImport
+    ARCH='x86_64'
+    # only one file should be listed anyway
+    for PKG in $(ls -1 ./*${REPO}* 2>/dev/null); do
+        # get repo metadata from the "meta" version, creating it if necessary
+        [[ $(jfrog bt version-show "${PACKAGE_PATH}/meta" 2> /dev/null) ]] \
+        || jfrog bt version-create --vcs-tag "0.0.0" --desc "archlinux repo metadata" "${PACKAGE_PATH}/meta"
+        jfrog bt download-ver "${PACKAGE_PATH}/meta"
+        if [ -d "$ARCH" ]; then
+            mv "$ARCH" meta
+        fi
+        mkdir -p meta
+        gpg --detach-sign --no-armor -u "$BINTRAY_GPG_ID" "$PKG"
+        repo-add -p -s -k "$BINTRAY_GPG_ID" "meta/${ORG}.db.tar.gz" "$PKG"
+        jfrog bt upload --publish --override "meta/*" "${PACKAGE_PATH}/meta" "${ARCH}/"
+        jfrog bt upload --publish --override "${PKG}*" "${VERSION_PATH}" "${ARCH}/"
+    done
+}
+
+for REPO in ${DISTLIST[*]}; do
+    PACKAGE_PATH="${ORG}/${REPO}/${PACKAGE}"
+    VERSION_PATH="${PACKAGE_PATH}/${RELEASE_VERSION}"
+    # create version
+    [[ $(jfrog bt version-show "$VERSION_PATH" 2>/dev/null) ]] && op=version-update || op=version-create
+    jfrog bt $op --vcs-tag "$RELEASE_VERSION" --released "$(date +'%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z')" "$VERSION_PATH"
+    # upload files
+    if [[ $REPO =~ ubuntu|debian ]]; then
+        pubDeb
+    elif [ $REPO == fedora ]; then
+        pubRpm
+    elif [ $REPO == archlinux ]; then
+        pubArch
+    fi
+done
diff --git a/version.txt b/version.txt
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..227cea21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/version.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2.0.0