Tech-focused summary for April 1–30, 2026
Here is the update on last months activity in Second Life.
Official SL Platform Updates
- April 1, 2026: Voice service disruption reported (connection issues and audio drops). Incident tied to ongoing WebRTC transition testing; highlighted need for full rollout improvements.
- April 25, 2026: Unscheduled inventory maintenance affected login, rezzing, avatar display, and inventory access. Issue resolved same day; users advised to clear cache. – NOTE: If you are not having issues, don’t. I went through the outage and recovered without clearing my cache.
- Throughout April: Continued WebRTC Voice testing on RC channels with maintenance sessions (e.g., April 22). Full grid rollout announced for May 5.
Viewer Releases
- April 10, 2026: Default Viewer (One-Click Installer) 26.1.1.23806384790 – No functional changes.
- April 15, 2026: RC Flat UI Viewer 26.2.0.24254827122 – “Flat” UI and font updates.
- April 25, 2026: Cool VL Viewer Stable 1.32.4.27 – Bug fixes and stability improvements (V1-style).
- April 26, 2026: Kirstens Viewer S24(6) Beta 2 – Enhancements for V7-style users.
- Ongoing: Project Lua Editor and other alphas saw minor activity; focus remained on UI modernization and WebRTC compatibility.
Grid / Performance Fixes & Maintenance
- Regular rolling restarts for Main and RC channels (e.g., April 28–29).
- Login maintenance on April 29.
- No widespread outages; grid remained stable. Region count held steady (~27,000 total). Note: The April 25 Inventory problem in not considered and outage. People were able to login and function to some level.
- Concurrency averaged 25k–45k daily peaks.
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