Second Life News Week 12

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Servers

Second Life’s main channel got an update to day (3/22). This is the RC package from last week, which is some Script Fixes and Minor internal improvements.

The RC channels are running the same package, no update this week.

"Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.."
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak..”

Viewers

The main viewer updated last week to version 4.0.2.312269, the Maintenance RC viewer with lots of fixes. 

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Second Life: Firestorm Viewer Week 11

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Firestorm Logo
Firestorm Logo

Firestorm updated sometime after I posted this… 

See: Firestorm Update

I was expecting the Firestorm Viewer to update the 16th. That expectation came from a comment at the Third Party Developers’ meeting. Obviously that hasn’t happened.

I am seeing the wiki updating. Lots of new entries for version 4.7.7-48706. This is typical pre-release updating of the wiki. So, release is eminent. I doubt we will see it today or before Monday. The team doesn’t like to release a new viewer before the weekend. If something unforeseen goes wrong and people have to work on the weekend to fix it, that makes for bad juju.

This version of the Firestorm viewer caught up with the Linden Lab viewer 4.0.1. Of course the day Firestorm releases the Lab released and is now pushing 4.0.2 as their main viewer.

If you are thinking FS is behind again… well sort of, but probably not as much as one might think. Some fixes from the Firestorm team go into the Linden viewer, or at least inspire Linden fixes. Of course those FS Team fixes are already in Firestorm. So, it is hard to say who is a head, on par, behind…

Use the viewers and see which ones work best.

Second Life News Week 11

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Servers

The main channel is not getting an update this week. The RC channels are. All three will get the same package. It contains some Script Fixes and Minor internal improvements.

Something tells me I'm going to love him forever..
Something tells me I’m going to love him forever..

We know from the Third Party Developers meeting that the Lindens are working on server side changes related to griefing issues. The first thing about grief fixing is you don’t talk about grief fixes. 

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