Second Life News Week 44

Viewers

The main default viewer updated from the Notifications RC Viewer 3.8.6-305981. So, you’ll be seeing notices popping up differently.

The only RC viewers are:

  • RC Second Life HTTP update Viewer version 3.8.6.306549
  • Second Life Quick Graphics Viewer version 3.8.6.305942
Why So Serious ?!!!
Why So Serious ?!!!

The Project Viewers:

  • Project Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.18.295296
  • Second Life Project Valhalla Viewer version 4.0.0.305703

Nothing much has changed in these. There will be updates to all of these so they will all soon have the Notifications changes plus various fixes.

I don’t expect the Oculus version to update… 

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Second Life’s Not So New News

Yesterday Linden Lab posted  in their blog about new improvements coming to Second Life. If you follow my blog, Ciarans’s or Inara’s, you already know most of what they wrote about. Project Valhalla is the project viewer where they are changing from Webkit to Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). I’ve been writing about this change since … Read more

Second Life Servers Week 43

This week there has been no roll to the main channel. The same software will run as last week.

This week (Wednesday) there will be a roll out to the RC channels. All three channels will get the same package: Maintenance.

Portrait ♥
Portrait ♥

This package is said to have some bug fixes and to specifically fix:  BUG-8222HI, Problems to open pictures in Group notifications ! this bug looks to be related to: SVC-7129Attachments to group notices malfunction after some time. This is an old problem we have lived with for years (March 2010). 

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Server Updates Week 40

The main grid got a roll out Tuesday (9/29). This package has internal fixes to improve inventory performance. We know little else from the Deploy post and release notes. The RC Channels will all get the same package. The package includes: a fix for a server crash and a fix for the Region Debug Console … Read more