This page contains the articles related to the Second Life and OpenSim Server software.
I will probably filter out OpenSim at some point and create a page just for OS.
Second Life News 2018 w46 – Animesh
I was upgrading my computer with a larger C: drive. Cloning a 1TB drive with only 35GB of free space takes far longer than I expected. Plus, Acronis’ idea of fitting a drive to a larger disk is rather lame. The Western Digital free version of Acronis is a great tool for adding new drives, … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w45 Election Day
Busy with RL last week and looks like this week. The Adobe updates that screwed things are not helping. Servers The main channel is getting an update to version #18.10.25.521081. This version is apparently the same as last week’s version 18.10.19.520868, but with some fixes to the logging. That version was all Internal Changes. Blue … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w44
Servers There is no deploy post this week. So, we may not hear anything until Thursday’s Beta Server UG meeting. There were login issues over the weekend. The Lindens think they have that fixed. Inara didn’t make it to the Server-Scripting meeting. I was out and didn’t make it. So, everyone that didn’t make it … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w43
Servers A roll was made to the main channel Tuesday, #18.10.04.520268. All internal fixes. The three RC channels and Snack also got updates, #18.10.19.520868 for Blue Steel. Le Tigre and Magnum were not ‘determined’ as to which version they would get. Snack is getting an EEP update, 18.10.19.520844 (?). There was some mix up in … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w42
Servers Mazidox Linden says there is no roll to the main channel this week. The channel will stay on version #18.09.20.519894. All three RC channels will update Wednesday to version #18.10.04.520268. The changes are listed as Internal Changes. Viewers The main viewer is still version 5.1.9.519298, released in week #40. Second Life Animesh Viewer version … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w/41
Servers There is no roll to the main channel. Those servers will remain on version #18.09.20.519894. Also, the RC channels are not getting a roll and will stay on version #18.09.24.519940. They will get a restart. From the Scripting and Server UG we know the Lindens are expecting the RC version to promote up to … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w40
Servers The main channel was updated to version #18.09.20.519894. This version contains code for the Bakes On Mesh feature. None of this update is going to be apparent to users. Sort of infrastructure only changes. My home region on the main channel did get an update today and shows the above as the running version. … Read more
Second Life News 2018 w39
Lots of interesting news and updates… I’ve combined information from the Third-Party Dev meeting and my regular Tuesday updates. There is normally about two working days between the Third-Party and Server-Scripting meetings. Not much changes in that time. So, I combined them. Servers No roll to the main channel. It will continue to run #18.09.04.519319. … Read more