Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
I don’t cover the Third-Party Viewers as much as I used to. I think Project Bento is a change that will make any viewer without Bento capability obsolete. Some Third Party Viewers are already Bento capable. Here is what I have found.
…and I may have made mistakes about which viewer does and doesn’t have Bento capability. If you see one please correct me.
The Deploys thread did not update until late Tuesday. It usually updates late Monday or early Tuesday. Caleb Linden has been writing the updates for the last few months. I would guess this is not his favorite task.
So, the late posting and the election results diverted me away from getting my Tuesday SL News article published.
The main channel did not get an update. Today, Wednesday, we are getting an update to the RC channels. So, for the last week all channels have run the same package.
Some people are experiencing losing attachments when they cross to a new region or teleport. I’ve had it happen a couple of times. It is apparently a significant problem for a number of people. A thread about it is here: Avatar attachments continually being detached.
There are a number of JIRA Bug Reports, Whirly says thousands:
Oz Linden was saying on last Friday that one more bug fix coming for the RC Second Life Bento Viewer version 5.0.0.321250. Then it will be a candidate for release as the main viewer. This means we will very likely have Project Bento this year and may be before Thanksgiving.
RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.1.2.321183 is doing well. It could and likely will release before the Bento viewer.
While the order of release is not clear, inside or outside the Lab, the Lindens do expect one to release before Thanksgiving, in a couple of week and the other will become the default a couple weeks after first of December.
I’ve reported on the rumors that started in earnest Tuesday. There was a trickle of rumor the week before… what happened was the RC channels got the update from 15,000 prims to 22,500. A few people noticed and wondered, speculated. But, on Tuesday the main channel got the server upgrade that raised the limit on way more regions in the mainland.
The upgrade is rolling to the mainland as a test. Over the next couple of months it will continue rolling out to more of the grid. The private regions will be last as the Lindens want all the problems out before it moves to what they consider their premium product. Patrick would like to have it all rolled out before Thanksgiving (US holiday). But, the estimate is 2 months… he is being conservative.
There is an option to take a region to 30,000 prims. There will be a cost and there is a Premium membership aspect too. But, that may be a couple of months away. The 30 limit is toward the end of the testing period.
In testing they took the prim count up near 80-100k and found no measurable server side lag. However, it could be a problem for older computers. I’m so glad I built a new computer. Now if the Samsungs just weren’t burning up…
The main channel got an update this morning. The package is said to fix BUG-40735 – Paying an object with [slgaming] in the object name (most skill game machines) fails on the RC 16.10.14.320687 and some ‘Internal Changes’.
The RC channels did not update and continue to run the package now on the main channel.
No new information the 40 regions named HR/HC/HIH.