Grid and Performance Fixes
- September 1: No simulator deployment; all simhosts restarted. Nectarine, carrying server-side Game Control, was aimed at the BlueSteel RC and then slipped through QA. Source: SUG notes, September 1.
- Week of September 15–19: Nectarine reached BlueSteel and included Game Control back-end support (Kyle Linden, Open Source UG, September 19). It left a bad zero-coded block on some ObjectUpdate messages. Viewers that drop the packet see it as packet loss; the bug can also touch the 26.4 viewer. A viewer-side fix is expected in 26.5, with a pull request planned for third-party viewers.
- September 22: Unscheduled billing interruption affected LindeX purchases, Marketplace purchases, and Process Credits. Status marked the work completed the same day. Website maintenance ran September 23. Source: status.secondlifegrid.net.
- September 29: Rolling restarts on the Main channel, completed about 08:16 PDT. Phone and live chat support were also down that afternoon; tickets stayed open. A further region maintenance window ran September 30. At the September 29 SUG, Leviathan Linden still had not locked the ObjectUpdate fix path; a release-candidate deploy on September 30 was described as likely, not confirmed as a Main promotion. Region-crossing test regions (Pepper Linden, Snack RC) were delayed by that bug. A third-party status tracker also recorded a website incident on September 1.
- Voice: Roxie Linden said WebRTC attenuation may become tunable. Current falloff is flat for about 10 metres, then declines toward 60 metres. That is design discussion, not a September ship.
Social or Community Changes
- September 3 / party September 12: Firestorm’s 16th anniversary. Team Phoenix’s founding date is September 3, 2010; the public party moved to Saturday, September 12, with four gifts. Second Life Newser covered the party and the anniversary area on September 20 and September 23. Organizer: Phoenix Firestorm Project. Source: firestormviewer.org, SL Newser.
- September 21–November 1: Warblood City Autumn Carnival, free entry, rides and a kiddie area, organized by the Warblood City Cancer Kickers for the American Cancer Society. Destination listing on secondlife.com.
- September 20–October 20: Engine Room round, Second Life Syndicate’s historically inspired fantasy and science-fiction expo (steampunk, dieselpunk, aetherpunk, and related roleplay).
- September 25–October 4: 14th annual Rock Your Rack, shopping, live music, fashion, art, and a hunt for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Editors’ Pick on the official destinations list.
- September through November: MadPea Fortune Fishing, Starlit Secrets season, a grid-featured fishing game with seasonal leaderboards.
- September 30: Inara Pey flagged The Halloween Experience: Salem 1692 (Kaiden Try and Pandora Ceridwen Tray) as an immersive October event series. SLurl on Wandering New York. The Forum Cartel meetup thread did not return dated September meetup posts in this scan.
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