diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2aca568eeceab42d2312b51e947efa885036b927..4870e9799523ebceca07d361e4d615ee3052bee7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+## News
+2018-12-07: Update to julia v1.0 is ongoing, check branch `julia1`
+
 [![pipeline status](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/processes/LabProcesses.jl/badges/master/pipeline.svg)](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/processes/LabProcesses.jl/commits/master)
 [![coverage report](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/processes/LabProcesses.jl/badges/master/coverage.svg)](https://gitlab.control.lth.se/processes/LabProcesses.jl/commits/master)
 
@@ -37,4 +40,4 @@ och lägga till tre rader som
 
 När .gitlab-ci.yml uppdateras i master triggas en pipline. Om denna lyckas kommer dokumentationen finnas under
 
-http://processes.gitlab.control.lth.se/documentation/myfoldername/
\ No newline at end of file
+http://processes.gitlab.control.lth.se/documentation/myfoldername/
diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index d5abd45daaab624c5b1cb14ccb404f76c0e1b6d6..ff86b9895ae7badf35f3dcec9383f2520c13e1ea 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
-julia 0.6
+julia 0.7
 ControlSystems
 Parameters
+DSP
diff --git a/src/LabProcesses.jl b/src/LabProcesses.jl
index e193536820120db4ad968a6e9feca62b01758c73..bc3b32b9a0627810a673e50c30f9fd272f291f8d 100644
--- a/src/LabProcesses.jl
+++ b/src/LabProcesses.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 # __precompile__()
+using Pkg
 installed_packages = Pkg.installed()
 if "LabConnections" ∉ keys(installed_packages)
 	Pkg.clone("https://gitlab.control.lth.se/cont-frb/LabConnections.jl")
@@ -8,7 +9,7 @@ end
 
 module LabProcesses
 
-using ControlSystems, LabConnections.Computer, Parameters
+using ControlSystems, LabConnections.Computer, Parameters, DSP
 
 include("utilities.jl")
 
diff --git a/src/interface_implementations/define_beam_system.jl b/src/interface_implementations/define_beam_system.jl
index 5aba53bb0a0869175490a92c9245dac0db997a96..76365fa6e4b9599118ccc32aec093bd3e38a30eb 100644
--- a/src/interface_implementations/define_beam_system.jl
+++ b/src/interface_implementations/define_beam_system.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using ControlSystems
+using ControlSystems, DSP
 
 """
     beammodel, beamcontroller = define_beam_system(;doplot=false)
diff --git a/src/utilities.jl b/src/utilities.jl
index 3b4d1f2ffe14df0930d372b7bcf9e2515a208b87..6ae5a9df5c63e2e9ad3f86c700fcb2bdaa0e5c2e 100644
--- a/src/utilities.jl
+++ b/src/utilities.jl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ macro periodically(h, body)
 		local start_time = time()
 		$(esc(body))
 		local execution_time = time()-start_time
-		sleep(max(0,$(esc(h))-execution_time))
+		Libc.systemsleep(max(0,$(esc(h))-execution_time))
 	end
 end
 
@@ -37,22 +37,22 @@ Create a SysFilter object that can be used to implement control loops and simula
 with LTI systems, i.e., `U(z) = C(z)E(z)`. To filter a signal `u` through the filter,
 call like `y = Csf(u)`. Calculates the filtered output `y` in `y = Cx+Du, x'=Ax+Bu`
 """
-struct SysFilter
-	sys::StateSpace
+struct SysFilter{T<:StateSpace}
+	sys::T
 	state::Vector{Float64}
 	function SysFilter(sys::StateSpace, state::AbstractVector)
 		@assert !ControlSystems.iscontinuous(sys) "Can not filter using continuous time model."
 		@assert length(state) == sys.nx "length(state) != sys.nx"
-		new(sys, state)
+		new{typeof(sys)}(sys, state)
 	end
 	function SysFilter(sys::StateSpace)
 		@assert !ControlSystems.iscontinuous(sys) "Can not filter using continuous time model. Supply sample time."
-		new(sys, init_sysfilter(sys))
+		new{typeof(sys)}(sys, init_sysfilter(sys))
 	end
 	function SysFilter(sys::StateSpace, h::Real)
 		@assert ControlSystems.iscontinuous(sys) "Sample time supplied byt system model is already in discrete time."
 		sysd = c2d(sys, h)[1]
-		new(sysd, init_sysfilter(sysd))
+		new{typeof(sysd)}(sysd, init_sysfilter(sysd))
 	end
 end
 (s::SysFilter)(input) = sysfilter!(s.state, s.sys, input)