Zero Install

News

Jun 2009

An experimental Firefox extension for Zero Install is now available.
0compile 0.18 adds a GUI to the "autocompile" feature and introduces more support for compiling legacy source code.

May 2009

0release 0.10 automatically creates binary packages along with the source releases.
Added IdeaTorrent to track popular ideas - open for voting now!

Apr 2009

0launch 0.40 released (fixes FTP support with Python 2.6).
The new 0compile autocompile feature will download source code and build and register the binary in one go, along with any dependencies.

Mar 2009

0launch 0.39 released, with support for translations, improved background updates and better support for the RPM and Fink package managers.

Jan 2009

0launch 0.38 released, with better support for sudo, and a new "0store audit" command to check the whole cache.
The 0export command is now much improved, with a simple GUI.

Dec 2008

Peer-to-peer downloads are now supported (experimental feature).

Nov 2008

0test released; this tool can test combinations of various versions of a program and its dependencies.

Sep 2008

0launch 0.36 released, fixing some performance problems and other bugs.

Jul 2008

0export can be used to create a self-extracting "setup.sh" installer, for distribution on CD, etc.

Jun 2008

GNOME and KDE integration is now much improved, with a new interface for managing applications you've added to the menu. See this screenshot at the top of the policy tutorial.

May 2008

The new deb2zero utility can publish a Debian package in a Zero Install feed.

Apr 2008

0launch can now fallback to using a mirror automatically. The second part of the video tutorial is now up.

Mar 2008

Zero Install interview on netbsd.org.

For more information see the mailing list archives or the release notes on gnomefiles.org.