Second Life 1.22 (RC4) now available
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Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC4 is the fifth release in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). Mostly this version seems to be about final polish.
This edition has two more crash fixes, assorted tune-ups to defective UI elements, a small bundle of localization fixes and some almost completely impenetrable alterations to the thread watchdog (however it does now default to being off). We’re not expecting an RC6 before this goes live - unless something outstandingly broken crops up. Full release notes for this version are after the…
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Second Life 1.22 (RC4) now available originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Imprudence 1.0 released for Second Life
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The Imprudence project has reached the end of the first release cycle for their Second Life viewer. Imprudence is now in official release, and will soon show the first of their 1.1 series of viewers, sporting sound and more extensive modifications.
As is proper, there’s very little difference between the release version and the release candidate. Pretty much just a couple fixes for memory leaks, and some minor tweaking. OpenJPEG 1.3 removes issues with transparent skirts.
Aside from the temporary lack of audio, this seems to be the smoothest and most reliable viewer presently available based…
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Imprudence 1.0 released for Second Life originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Second Life 1.22 (RC3) now available
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Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC3 is the fourth release in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). As usual, we have a bunch of assorted fixes and crash fixes in this edition.
This edition has five more crash fixes, some tweaks to the watchdog code (because it wasn’t crashing when it should) and assorted tweaks. The Planning tab has been removed from Group Information, because it basically just never worked properly.
This looks like it might be the last release before 1.22 becomes the official viewer, unless something is reported…
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Second Life 1.22 (RC3) now available originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Imprudence 1.0.0 RC2 available
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The Imprudence project now has its second release candidate viewer for Second Life available. Building on the feedback from RC1, Jacek Antonelli, McCabe Maxsted and team have churned out a whole slew of bug-fixes for the already tasty RC1.
Crashes when clicking on some hyperlinks have been fixed (the problem was traced to the Linden build system pulling in the wrong library), the debug console window has been hidden away (as it should be), the search interface no longer clears results between invocations, a prospective fix for issues with palletized textures (which could be related to a lot of…
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Imprudence 1.0.0 RC2 available originally appeared on Massively on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Second Life 1.22 (RC2) now available
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Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC2 is the third release in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). As usual, we have a bunch of assorted fixes and crash fixes in this edition.
This edition has five crash fixes, additional debugging to isolate the causes of graphics driver crashes, some fixes for PPC systems, and some more attempts to get object selection/cursor positioning right for edge-cases. More details after the jump….
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Second Life 1.22 (RC2) now available originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Face and head tracking for Second Life avatars
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For those of you who are keen on hands-free avatar expressiveness in the virtual environment of Second Life comes a surprise third-party viewer from vr-wear.com. This beta viewer for Windows or Mac OSX uses a camera to track your head and expressions, and convey that to your avatar.
At present, it is all a little rudimentary, and there isn’t any back-end support for sending much in the way of ad-hoc avatar motion through the Second Life servers, so the system is limited to what can be supported. At present, that appears to be lip-sync, nodding and head-shaking, surprise and smiling,…
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Face and head tracking for Second Life avatars originally appeared on Massively on Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Second Life 1.22 (RC0) now available
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The Second Life viewer dev team has been working furiously away for some time now, and you may be forgiven for wondering where the fruits of that labor are. It has, after all, been some time since we’ve seen a new viewer other than emergency security fixes.
There are lots of little things in this viewer, mostly bug-fixes. What is particularly peculiar is that whispering seems to be back. Whisper was a short-range chat option that was discarded from the Second Life viewer back in 2005 due to it being confusing both conceptually and in the user-interface. Whispering has a 10 metre range and…
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Second Life 1.22 (RC0) now available originally appeared on Massively on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Imprudence 1.0.0 RC1 available
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The Imprudence project now has its first release candidate viewer for Second Life available, and far sooner than we expected. It’s impressive work for a first release candidate as well. We’ve not had such a fast and smooth viewer experience since Nicholaz “The Mad Patcher” Beresford’s series of Second Life viewers. Indeed, many of Beresford’s patches are also a part of the Imprudence project.
Imprudence necessarily replaces proprietary fonts with Liberation Sans and Bitstream Vera Mono, which look a little peculiar the first couple of times out, but score high on improved readability. There’s…
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Imprudence 1.0.0 RC1 available originally appeared on Massively on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Second Life 1.21 release candidate now gold
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The 1.21 series of Second Life viewer release candidates has come to an end and has “gone gold” as they say. The 1.21.6 viewer today replaces the 1.20 viewer as the official Second Life viewer.
As yet, Linden Lab has not announced the update, nor provided release notes for the new viewer, but that’s alright, because we’ve got that information for you. The list of changes from 1.20 is quite a long one. Seriously. Hang on to your hats, because nearly every part of the viewer got some loving from the Lab engineers. Everything from group chat moderation to some long standing cleanups of text that…
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Second Life security updates. New viewers
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Well, at last we know what all the fuss was about with all the sudden software updates over the last week for the Second Life servers that caused so much disruption during the last few days. It appears we were on the money with security fixes, and exploitable vulnerabilities have received urgent attention.
As a result a new Second Life viewer is available for download now — that’s 1.20.17(98669) — and you can expect a new Release Candidate viewer (RC5) very very soon. Both are likely to be mandatory updates.
So, what’s all the fuss about?
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