Zero Install is a handy and reliable application designed to allow installing software easily and without the need for root privileges. It enables software developers to publish programs directly from their own web-sites, while supporting features familiar from centralised distribution repositories such as shared libraries, automatic updates and digital signatures.
If you have a web-site, you can distribute your software:
· Create one package that works everywhere
· With dependency handling and automatic updates
· There is no central point of control
Security is central:
· Users don't need administrator access just to install a word-processor
· Digital signatures are always checked before new software is run
· Users share libraries without having to trust each other
· Use of sandboxes and virtualisation is routine
You control your own computer:
· You don't have to guess what happens during installation
· Mix and match stable and experimental programs on a single system

What's New in This Release:
· Added new options to GUI: update policy, cache directories, trusted keys
· Preserve error level when launching applications via aliases
· Improved behavior of application list when under high load
· Made application list work in portable mode
· Do not perform update checks when no network connections are detected
· Fixed problem verifying the key server’s SSL certificate
· Fixed problem extracting certain ZIP archives
· Fixed UnhandledErrorsException on unexpected GnuPG output
· Fixed MissingMethodException on .NET 2.0 pre-SP2 (used on Windows 2000)