Today the No-Change-Window is closing. Developers with a bit of extra time over the holidays have finished up upgrades to the viewers they make. So, we have some new third-party viewers out. The Lab, of course, was closed over the holidays. So, not much news from them.
You can not escape it.
Servers
There is no Deploy post today. No rollout was expected for the main channel. Whether we will see one on the RC channels is still iffy.
I am showing the last restart of my main channel home region as 12/26.
Viewers
The main viewer remains 5.0.9.329906. Last updated
Second Life Alex Ivy Viewer version 5.1.0.511248 – Last updated in week #48.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.0.10.330123 – Last updated in week #51.
Second Life Voice Viewer version 5.0.10.330039 – Last updated in week #50.
Second Life Wolfpack Viewer version 5.0.10.330113 – Last updated in week #51.
Second Life Project 360 Snapshot Viewer version 5.1.0.506743 – no update since week #27.
Second Life Project Animesh Viewer version 5.0.10.330058 – Last updated in week #49.
Second Life Project Render Viewer version 5.1.0.511446 – released week, #50.
Third-Party Viewers
The big news is the Catznip Viewer updated in Beta the 26th and in final version yesterday 1/1. This is a big update. Now version R12.
I’ll be downloading it later and will post after I get to use it for a bit. However, Inara has a good review of the release and changes: CATZNIP R12: INVENTORY, SHOPPING AND MORE. She put some effort into the review. Check it out. You’ll get the keyboard shortcuts to get to the fun stuff.
I’ll download it and post my take later today.
Black Dragon has a New Year release, version 2.9.6. This is a bug fix release.
The big news is that Pete Linden has left the lab…I wonder who will take over the role now ?
It is interesting news. But, I wouldn’t lass it as ‘big’ or ‘exciting’.
They divided the job up for now. I am guessing they will hire a replacement to market all the Lab’s products.