The Firestorm Team announced last Friday (2/13) that they will be blocking their viewer version 4.6.1. Versions 4.6.5, 4.6.7 and 4.6.9 will be the only versions that can log into Second Life. They strongly advise that you upgrade to and use version 4.6.9. Official Firestorm Announcement is here. An exception is being made for version 4.4.2 on the … Continue reading
In last Friday’s meeting all the Linden news was covered in 8 minutes. The entire meeting was only 30 minutes. Not much in the way of new information or to talk about. There are even fewer things of interest for general users. Projects Brooke Linden spoke about Viewer Managed Marketplace project and their progress. She says … Continue reading
Servers We haven’t had any server updates running in the RC Channels. We have had a version running in RC that has tweaks to CDN settings. Those tweaks are rolling out to the main grid tomorrow, Tuesday, Week 48. According to the Deploys thread there are no new changes being made to any RC channel. … Continue reading
This past Friday was the Third Party Developers meeting. Chakat NorthSpring has a video of the meeting: Second Life: Third Party Viewer meeting (21 November 2014). These meetings are consistently getting shorter. This one is down 30± minutes or so. A couple of extra Linens were in attendance Friday; Brooke, Xiola and Bazz. Viewers Oz … Continue reading
The Third Party Developers Meeting was Friday (9/26). So, we have some news about what is happening on the development side of Second Life™. Viewers The main viewer is: 3.7.16.294015, which is the maintenance release I covered last week in Second Life News 2014-38 #2. RC Viewers There is still only one RC viewer: Login … Continue reading
This last Friday was the Third Party Developers’ meeting facilitated by Oz Linden. We have a burst of news from that meeting. Several projects were updated. Viewers I’ve already covered the update of the SL Default/Main Viewer and the RC Viewers. There was no new news regarding these viewers. However, some props are due NiranV. … Continue reading
We have a bit of news from the Third Party Developers Meeting from Friday, 8/29. Chakat Northspring videos the meetings. You can follow him on YouTube and catch those meetings a few hours after they happen. Viewers Viewer news from Oz Linden is pretty thin, his word. I’ve covered most of the viewer news earlier … Continue reading
Firestorm has released a new viewer. That happened Sunday sometime. The announcement is here: Firestorm Viewer Release 4.6.7-42398. There are some great fixes in this version. One for Mac users is the Alt-cam clicking that sent the camera flying away. There is still work being done on selecting things in Mac versions, so there is … Continue reading