Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Linden made series of viewers
There just isn’t much news this last week. There was no Server-Scripting (Tuesday), Content Creators (Bento – Thursday), or Sever Beta (Thursday) user group meetings. Seems the Lindens are tasked with being at internal meetings this week. Or… they are out protesting Trump…
We do have a new RC Viewer in Alternate Viewers, the Second Life Love Me Render Viewer version 5.0.2.323361.
According to the release notes:
The main channel got an update today (Tuesday). This is the package that ran on the RC channels the previous week. With the changes:
And Simon Linden told us there were fixes to chat IM’s. Those may have been made in parts of the backend of the system and not in the server/simulator. Hard to know.
The update and rolling restarts were done by 8:30 AM PST/SLT.
The three RC channels will get a new package Wednesday (2/8). The packages is reported as being almost the same as this week’s update:
The main channel is getting a restart but, no new package.
Wednesday the RC channels will get a new package and be restarted.
The server changes are stated as:
The Third-Party Developers meeting was last Friday. The video is here: Second Life: Third Party Viewer meeting (27January 2017). 54 minutes.
Following is my summary of the video.
There are 2 project viewers in Lab’s pipeline. They are not yet published as RC viewers. Soon.
I haven’t updated the server/viewer information since week #1. Blame bacteria, I do.
This week the main channel got a server update. The RC channels run the same package, no new package.
I’ve been out of it with pneumonia, 103+ fevers, and some really messed up dreams. Just as the Lab was releasing Alex Ivy, the project name for the 64-bit version of the Linden viewer, I was getting sick. So, I’m just getting around to trying the new project viewer.
The download package is about 80MB. Firestorm releases are about 20MB larger.
You can download a copy here: Alternate Viewers.