Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The main channels did get a roll out. It was the package running on the RC channels for the last 2 weeks (38 & 39 or 39 & 40 depending on how you count weeks for rollouts). This was the package with teaks to the Experience Tools project. It also included some bug fixes.
The RC channels all got the same package. This is a package that fixes a problem unique to the Skill Gaming regions.
The Lindens have a new post in the SL Forum titled: An Update on Several Improvements to Second Life™ (9/30 9:36AM SLT).
The first thing they mention is their changing the viewer from using a list of graphics cards to determine what settings to use to using a benchmark process to test the installed video card. Based on the tests they estimate what the card is capable of doing.
The viewer that has this change is a Project Viewer and can be found here: Second Life RC Viewers. I would call this more of a beta version than an RC version. Whatever it is, the Lindens could use some help testing it, especially if you have one of the newest video cards out.
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™.
The main viewer is: 3.7.16.294015, which is the maintenance release I covered last week in Second Life News 2014-38 #2.
There is still only one RC viewer: Login Viewer version 3.7.16.294345, I covered it earlier this week in Second Life News 2014-39.
Oz Linden tells there are other viewers in the pipeline that will appear “very, very, very soon”.
One he mentioned in the meeting is: a Pipelining Viewer, which is going from QA to RC Monday or Tuesday – This is said to be a way faster viewer. It is compatible with CDN and the two changes are synergistic. Monty Linden described the two working to gather as a “friggin’ scary good” change.
Not much news coming out of the Server Beta UG.
The Content Delivery Network for AGNI has grown a bit, more regions added to the Snack Channel:
This is up from the original 4.
Any viewer can be used to try out the CDN. If there are not Second Life users in your area, you may not see much difference. If you’re in one of the areas with a number of SL users, they may have caused the CDN’s cache to load the content you need. In that case you should see a noticeable difference.
The Deploys post is out. There is no roll to the main channel tomorrow, Tuesday. The Experience Tools package will continue to run on the RC channels.
The RC channels will get an updated version of the Experience Tools package Wednesday.
The deploys thread hasn’t posted as I write this. But, we know from last week’s meeting what was planned. If the Experience Tools update has run as expected, we will see it roll to the main channel. Maestro Linden did not say what may be coming to the RC channels. So, we’ll have to wait for the Deploys thread to post, probably late today.
The main viewer is: 3.7.16-294015. This version does not have the new user login screen.