Second Life and Virtual Worlds
The Linden made series of viewers
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.
Second Life 3.7.16 (294015) – This is the current default viewer for Second Life, as of 2:50 PM 9/18.
Maintenance Viewer version 3.7.16.294015 – This maintenance version is the only candidate for promotion to the default viewer. The release notes are here. They were 9/12. It is a maintenance release with a large number of fixes.
Experience Tools Viewer version 3.7.16.293901 – This viewer has been updated. I think about 9/12. These updates brought it current with the default viewer and whatever changes are coming from the Experience Tools project.
Oculus Rift Viewer version 3.7.12.292141 – This viewer was last updated about 9/8.
Tuesday the main channel gets the maintenance package that ran on the RC Channels last week. It fixes some crash conditions and an oddball bug in Skill Gaming areas. Nothing any of us will likely notice.
All three RC channels will get an update Wednesday to the same package. This one is an update for the Experience Tools Project. It fixes some bugs and tweaks how some things work.
Nothing has changed since I last wrote an update. None of the coming RC Viewers have shown up on the RC Viewers Page.
I saw mention that Will Wright has left Linden Lab, or at least is no longer mentioned in the list of names for Linden Lab’s management. Back in October 2011 New World Notes carried an article about Mr. Wright joining the board.
So, the question is what happened?
This last Friday was the Third Party Developers’ meeting facilitated by Oz Linden. We have a burst of news from that meeting. Several projects were updated.
I’ve already covered the update of the SL Default/Main Viewer and the RC Viewers. There was no new news regarding these viewers.
However, some props are due NiranV. The new snapshot panel is his creation. It is well done. I personally like using it. NiranV also corrected some other problems in the snapshot process. So, it is more than just a cosmetic change.
Send NiranV a thank you.
The Oculus Rift Project viewer is in QA as a DK2 project and lots of issues are being found and worked on. Fixes are flowing into that project viewer. So, far the viewer will support DK1 as best it can.
My understanding is the DK2 version of the project is NOT yet published on the RC Viewer page, but soon.
We knew this story last Friday. Nothing has changed. No main channel roll out this week.
The RC Channels get a maintenance release that fixes some edge case problems and some issues with Skill Game regions access. Nothing exciting.
The main SL Viewer has updated to 3.7.15-293376. This was the Snowstorm RC Viewer. It has the new snapshot panel, which I really like.
The main viewer remains 3.7.14.
My SL Viewer updated this weekend. It is now version 3.7.15-293376. This is the Snowstorm RC viewer I previously covered here: Second Life Bits 2014-36 #2.