Second Life and Virtual Worlds
This week there is no roll out to the main channel. It continues to run version #18.03.27.513831.
Blue Steel and Le Tigre won’t get a roll and will continue running version #18.03.29.513939.
Magnum will get an update Wednesday to version #18.03.29.513939.
All are Internal fixes…
Any regions running 14 days or longer without a restart will be restarted.
The main viewer remains version 5.1.2.512803, which came on week #10.
The main channel updated to version #18.03.27.513831. The new version has only Internal Fixes.
The RC’s Blue Steel and Le Tigre will update to version #18.03.29.513939 on the usual Wednesday cycle. Also, only Internal Fixes.
Magnum will continue to run #18.03.27.513831.
From the Server and Scripting UG we hear about more region crossing work. Simon Linden is doing some work on crossings. BUG-214653 – After half-unsit at failed region crossing on vehicle due to network lag, “Unsit” button will not work.
Crossing regions at speed… fast cars, planes, boats, and motorcycles, have a big problem. I was recently testing an Apolon helicopter. Great fun. But, region crossings are an annoyance.
The main channel gets a restart but no update. It remains on version #18.02.12.512536, which rolled out the end of February.
My region restarted 3/13, so it hasn’t restarted this week, at least as of 11:30 Am SLT.
Blue Steel will update to #18.03.17.513365. Internal fixes…
Le Tigre and Magnum update to #18.03.14.513292. Internal fixes, logging to help diagnose an issue with in-world HTTP servers returning HTTP 503 (BUG-214702), adds a new capability to request IMs that were delivered to the requesting agent while the agent was offline, and adds a new capability to request the most up to date list of abuse report categories.
These ‘adds’ will require a viewer that can use them. Which I assume is somewhere in the QA pipeline.
The last few days we have had some people complaining about login issues. I’m one of them. But, the problem is so erratic and apparently random I can’t put any useful information in a JIRA.
This morning there was some issue with logins. Only 17,000+ were on when I logged in at 10:45 Am SLT. On my trackers next update, 19,000+ were on. That 17k is an extraordinarily small number. The low for the day is about 7,000… but it may have been zero. My tracker only grabs data every 10 minutes. A lot can happen in the computer world and RL in 10 minutes.
I currently show 3,000 to 2,000 people logging in every 10 minutes. This is indicative of some grid wide problem.
Status only says they are investigating intermittent login issues.
Update 11:00 AM SLT – Seems the problem is a DDOS attack. See Unscheduled DDoS. This is not a Linden Lab specific attack. Early indications, often wrong, suggest it is possibly an attack on America. I would not be surprised to trace it back to North Korea. They will likely react to the sanctions just placed on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. So, appease them now and face a nuclear attack later or deal with them now?
Did you know the average duration of a mass shooting is three minutes? What is the response time of the police in your neighborhood, to your sports arena, movie theater, or school?
Monday Caleb Linden posted the Deploys notice. The main channel is getting a restart. But will continue to run the same server version, #18.01.17.511913. The restarts are said to have started rolling across the grid at 3AM PT.
Blue Steel may get a new package Wednesday. The Deploys notice says they have not yet decided.
Le Tigre and Magnum will continue to run #18.01.17.511913, the package they ran last week. I doubt they will get a restart…
The main viewer is now 5.1.1.512121. This is the upgrade with fixes to the voice features. The previous version 5.1.0.511732 released in week #2.
There was no Server and Scripting UG meeting today.
There is a Deploys post up for this week. No roll to the main channel or any of the RC channels. So, version #18.01.17.511913 is running on all channels.
The main viewer is version 5.1.0.511732. Updated last in week #2.
Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 5.1.1.512226 – Updated! The previous update was version 5.1.1.511871 in week #4.