December – 33+ Articles
Second Life Best Practices for Building is updated in the SL Wiki.
The Lindens continued to work on a fix for offline-email failing to send.
The RC’s are running simple bug fix packages. No-Change-Windows came into play so little else would change this year 2012.
ADITI had a problem with free Linden$ not distributing. That got fixed. The new hardware has not arrived so disk keep filling up.
The BIG announcement in December is Server-Side Avatar Bake is planned to rollout in late February 2013. That spells the end of old viewers not being updated.
Crying Leo by storyvillegirl on Flickr
A griefing and extortion issue hit the fan. Protesters disrupted user group meetings.
The Sudden Massive Lag problem was hitting Linden user group meetings.
A new CHUI Project Viewer was released.
About the 18th we got the last rollout to the main grid. The big Magnum package made it out. The Lindens are hoping this has a fix for the Sudden Massive Lag.
We heard that Experience Permissions are still in progress after some delay.
Interest List code is in QA and headed toward an RC channel.
On the 19th a load test was done to test Phase II of Multi-Threaded Region-Crossing in ADITI.
On the 20th we got more information on things coming for 2013.
The 22nd a new CHUI Viewer was released.
Summary
2012 was far busier than I thought.
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