Second Life and Virtual Worlds
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 help text.
Frustrating but, I don’t know what the roll back last week was about. That we have a roll out to the main channel this week is surprising. But, we do.
The main channel is to get a new package. This has:
Neither of these functions are appearing in the wiki yet.
Blue Steel, La Tigre, and Magnum are to get the same new package. This will apparently be the package that retries the internal fixes to improve inventory performance.
Friday,18 Sep 2015 02:07:13 GMT
LL is rolling back the entire GRID tonight at midnight SLT.
[Unscheduled Rolling Maintenance September 2015]
We will be performing unscheduled rolling maintenance for all regions on our Second Life sever channels; Magnum, BlueSteel and LeTigre RC server channels beginning at approximately midnight PDT. Please refrain from rezzing no-copy objects and making in world L$ transactions, and remember to save all builds. Click here for more info:
http://status.secondlifegrid.net/
The wording and punctuation made the message unclear. I changed “…sever channel, Magnum,…” to read as “…sever channels; Magnum,…” Whoever types these messages may have English as their second language.
No roll to the main channel this week. I didn’t expect any rolls as it is a short week with Monday being an American holiday.
The RC channels did get a new package. Surprising. This is another boring Internal Simulator Fixes package.
Calab Linden seems to have permanently taken over making the Deploy announcements. He is making the forum and wiki posts. They seem to be turning into boiler plate announcements. He might as well abbreviate the reporting in the forum to Yes or No.
We can assume Internal means there is no user apparent change to the server. The change will have something to do with issues that affect operation in ways only important to Lindens. So, may be a variable name changes to better describe its function, a change makes package roll out more efficient, communication between a backend service improved… all things that say little to the user. But, these are still of interest to the geek crowd.
The lack of new features or improved existing features suggests most of the work is happening on larger projects or the viewer. We know there were changes to the inventory processes and Experience Tools going on. We haven’t heard that they have ended. Also, a VIVOX update was expected. We just aren’t getting information about those things.
We got a roll to the main channel this week. This is the package with Simulator Fixes and a fix for BUG-9504. There is nothing else available about those improvements.
The RC Channels will get one update on Blue Steel. The other channels, La Tigre, and Magnum, will continue running the package that rolled to the main channel. So, all regions except Blue Steel will be on the same package.
There was no roll to the Second Life™ servers’ main channel. The update running on Blue Steel last week had to be rolled back. So, it was not available for promotion.
This week the RC channels are all three getting the same new package. This one has some Simulator Fixes and a fix for BUG-9504 “Clicking on any object that affects the navmesh while in mouselook dirties the navmesh”. Remember, the Navmesh is a thing in Pathfinding.