diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 574e8e4..17e9f12 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+# 2.0.1
+### Improvements
+- As of npm 5, npm automatically `--save`s dependencies installed with `npm install`.
+  because minstall shouldn't touch the local modules package.json files, this change adds
+  the `--no-save` flag the internaly used `npm install` command
+
 # 2.0.0
 ### Bugfixes
 - Fix linking of localy available packages, when they are also a sub-dependency (see below)
diff --git a/lib/moduletools.js b/lib/moduletools.js
index e1a5306..bba9558 100644
--- a/lib/moduletools.js
+++ b/lib/moduletools.js
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ const moduletools = {
       nullTarget = '';
     }
 
-    return systools.runCommand(`npm install --loglevel ${npmiLoglevel} ${identities.join(' ')}${nullTarget}`)
+    return systools.runCommand(`npm install --no-save --loglevel ${npmiLoglevel} ${identities.join(' ')}${nullTarget}`)
       .catch((error) => {
 
         // This error might just be a warning from npm-install
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 72f23b3..e066f40 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "minstall",
-  "version": "2.0.0",
+  "version": "2.0.1",
   "description": "local module installer",
   "main": "lib/minstall.js",
   "bin": "lib/minstall.js",