diff --git a/changelog/addcommand.dd b/changelog/addcommand.dd
index d3ee0bd..3a61406 100644
--- a/changelog/addcommand.dd
+++ b/changelog/addcommand.dd
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Add Command
 
-The `add` command adds a dependency to the dub.json/dub.sdl file.
+The `add` command adds a dependency to the dub.json/dub.sdl recipe file.
 
 Running `dub add vibe-d` is equivalent to manually adding the following line to dub.sdl (X.Y.Z represents the latest version):
 dependency "vibe-d" version="~>X.Y.Z"
@@ -9,3 +9,12 @@
 "dependencies": {
     "vibe-d": "~>X.Y.Z"
 }
+
+It is also possible to add multiple packages at once and explicitly add a
+simple $(LINK2 version specification,http://code.dlang.org/package-format?lang=json#version-specs)
+for some of them.
+
+For example the command `dub add vibe-d='~>0.8.2' mir-algorithm=3.1.21` would
+add the given 2 dependencies to the recipe file without querying the registry.
+
+Packages with and without version-specifier can be mixed in a single invocation.
diff --git a/source/dub/commandline.d b/source/dub/commandline.d
index 759dc45..3286105 100644
--- a/source/dub/commandline.d
+++ b/source/dub/commandline.d
@@ -1154,12 +1154,13 @@
 	this()
 	{
 		this.name = "add";
-		this.argumentsPattern = "<packages...>";
+		this.argumentsPattern = "<package>[=<version-spec>] [<packages...>]";
 		this.description = "Adds dependencies to the package file.";
 		this.helpText = [
 			"Adds <packages> as dependencies.",
 			"",
-			"Running \"dub add <package>\" is the same as adding <package> to the \"dependencies\" section in dub.json/dub.sdl."
+			"Running \"dub add <package>\" is the same as adding <package> to the \"dependencies\" section in dub.json/dub.sdl.",
+			"If no version is specified for one of the packages, dub will query the registry for the latest version."
 		];
 	}
 
@@ -1175,8 +1176,18 @@
 		string filetype = existsFile(dub.rootPath ~ "dub.json") ? "json" : "sdl";
 		foreach (depname; free_args) {
 			try {
-				auto ver = dub.getLatestVersion(depname);
-				auto dep = ver.isBranch ? Dependency(ver) : Dependency("~>" ~ ver.toString());
+				Dependency dep;
+				auto parts = depname.findSplit("=");
+				if (!parts[1].empty)
+				{
+					depname = parts[0];
+					dep = Dependency(parts[2]);
+				}
+				else
+				{
+					auto ver = dub.getLatestVersion(depname);
+					dep = ver.isBranch ? Dependency(ver) : Dependency("~>" ~ ver.toString());
+				}
 				auto pkg = readPackageRecipe(dub.rootPath ~ ("dub." ~ filetype));
 
 				pkg.buildSettings.dependencies[depname] = dep;
diff --git a/test/issue1574-addcommand.sh b/test/issue1574-addcommand.sh
index c2fb1c7..647a0fd 100755
--- a/test/issue1574-addcommand.sh
+++ b/test/issue1574-addcommand.sh
@@ -19,14 +19,12 @@
 trap cleanup EXIT
 
 
-$DUB init -n $tempDir
+$DUB init --non-interactive --format=json $tempDir
 cd $tempDir
 
 echo "import gitcompatibledubpackage.subdir.file; void main(){}" > source/app.d
-
 $DUB add gitcompatibledubpackage --skip-registry=all --registry=http://localhost:$PORT
-
-#if dub fails to compile, that means that the "import mir.math.common" did not work
-if ! $DUB build; then
-	die "Add command failed"
-fi
+grep -q '"gitcompatibledubpackage"\s*:\s*"~>1\.0\.4"' dub.json
+$DUB add gitcompatibledubpackage=1.0.2 non-existing-issue1574-pkg='~>9.8.7' --skip-registry=all
+grep -q '"gitcompatibledubpackage"\s*:\s*"1\.0\.2"' dub.json
+grep -q '"non-existing-issue1574-pkg"\s*:\s*"~>9\.8\.7"' dub.json