Life in TSL

Well, the grid is down for updates today. The projected downtime is from 6am till 12pm. A lot of bug fixes, thank god the annoying ones will be gone now.

Release Notes:

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.0(12) June 13, 2007
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Changes:
* Inventory transfers
** Auto-accept inventory and auto-preview texture/notecard/landmark are now separate preferences.
** Viewing an embedded notecard or landmark no longer adds it to your inventory.
** Muting the sender of notecards, inventory, textures, etc., now removes all blue pop-ups in the upper right corner from that sender.
** Offline inventory transfers and group invites now include the name of the item or group, along with group role, in the email.
* Added “Clear Browser Cache” button to web prefs.
** This only affects the embedded browser, not any other browsers installed on your system
* Embedded Mozilla browser now supports cookies.
* Preliminary support added to the Windows installer for selecting a language (English, Korean)
* Closing a changed Classified now confirms changes

Bug fixes:
* Fixed a client crash while in startup
* Fixed group chat reopening with one message and an error after closing group chat
* Fixed “Stop All Animations” when stuck in an animation after teleporting
* Fixed group messages to allow the use of UTF8 characters
* Fixed “Show Owners” from automatically turning on again
* Fixed an issue with “Release Controls” when an object is taken and rerezed.
* Fixed an issue with texture picker not displaying any results unless inventory had been shown
* Fixed chat history to not show muted resident chat
* Fixed “Mute Resident” button, now opens the user picker
* Fixed group ability settings for group owners in German language viewer
* Fixed embedded Mozilla browser to work with HTTPS sites (affected Windows only)
* Notecards no longer display the “Keep” and “Discard” buttons when opened from inventory
* Acquired date is now set for items dragged from the contents of a container prim
* VWR-1040: crash when opening several gestures quickly
* VWR-966: Minor memory leak in llfloaterpreferences.cpp and a tiny leak in llstatup.cpp
* VWR-908: Various memory leaks in the group dialog
* VWR-871: More bad f00d: Two minor (or inconsequential) misses of initializing object members
* VWR-870: Memory violation through uninitialized variable (invisible or unrendered flexis)
* VWR-869: Possible hard-loop (endless, viewer-hang) in script editor
* VWR-827: Toruses are borked after making/editing sculpted prims
* VWR-823: Two unintialized variables in lltexturefetch.cpp
* VWR-822: “Create new…” clothing buttons don’t auto-wear items
* VWR-810: Destructor forgets to delete mFloaterContros member in llui/llview.cpp
* VWR-809: Destructor fails to clean up global menus in llviewermenu.cpp
* VWR-808: Incorrect cleanup in message.cpp
* VWR-807: Forgets to delete gToolInspect in lltoolmgr.cpp
* VWR-804: Quirk in llviewerwindow.cpp
* VWR-805: LLCurl not properly cleaned up
* VWR-765: Cannot open embedded notecards in other notecards when Automatic preview of new notecards/textures/landmarks is off
* VWR-409: New Feature -> UI -> Dialog -> Buy Copy/Contents -> Default Action -> Cancel
* VWR-682: Text Editors should try to preserve X cursor position
* VWR-671: Line editor history for recalling previously typed lines
* VWR-648: Texture picker should highlight the texture in the swatch
* VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can’t edit.
* VWR-364: Viewer memory leak

At 7.06 pm SLT LL posted the following:

"As you can imagine the coordination involved in the release of a feature as big as Voice is complex and we want to make sure to release it with the least possible complications. Our current plan is to release a First Look version of the voice client within the next few weeks. Then, after we’ve gathered good feedback on the First Look release and fixed any remaining bugs, we’ll release Voice as a required viewer. When we do release Voice, we plan to do it right and in a way that incorporates as much of the Beta feedback we’ve received as possible."

Again no word on when…about the First Look, nor the full required version release date. Seems they love to never give full details about anything at all. Anyways, at least we can start using it, even if it is buggy, in our day to day Second Lives. Just to give everyone a heads up on the upcoming viewer! 

Mitch Wagner has confirmed that LL will not be implicating voice for another month or so. According to the wonderful LL who uses great words: According to LL: "Linden Lab’s plan is to continue to develop additional voice features on the beta grid for a few weeks still." With no official date, but a few residents got a few words out of the Lindens, like Wagner, and were told that it will be another month. The Pro- Probably less bugs than if they had released it now. Con-…we don’t get it now .

The grid is back up, and as I said there are aftermath problems with group voting so that is shut down…wow…I am physic. Anyways here are the release notes:

Release Notes for Second Life 1.16.0(5) May 23, 2007
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New Features:
* Sculpted Prims
** Sculpted Prims are a new primitive type that uses a texture to control its 3D shape
** See http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Sculpted_Prims for FAQ and detailed information
* Add “Mute” button to block unwanted notecards, landmarks, and textures

Changes:
* Improved muting of particle systems

LSL Changes:
* New function: llRegionSay()
** Allows object to communicate region-wide
** Does not allow communication on channel 0
** This is intended to reduce simulator load by eliminating the need for relay objects

Bug fixes:
* Text for several alert messages has been updated
* Fixed positioning of maximize button when minimizing both script and lsl window
* Fixed positioning of LSL help window after minimizing/maximizing main script window
* Fixed group chat IM showing sender as the only participant until someone responds
* Fixed group chat IM reopening with an error when sending a message after user closes group chat
* Fixed ‘… has left the session’ when leaving group chat after talking
* Fixed failed email when no subject is included
* Fixed object loss occuring when taking an item
* VWR-657: Beta -> Linux -> Startup -> Crash

Still no voice, and with the bi-weekly updates we now know that we won’t be having it before 2 weeks from now…during summer for me. Hopefully, there won’t be any further aftermath problems with the update. 

The grid is down today, from 6am till 12pm for the new release. So what are we getting?

 Sculpties - Which will save prims and create better builds.

llRegionSay() - Better communication for scripts in the same region

What we are not getting:

Voice. Yep. We still have to wait, which sucks because I rushed to get my headphone before today thinking it was going to come.

Unification - Yea, we all know about this. Whether your for it or against it…or have no clue.

Well see you at 12pm! (Most likely 3pm because they will close SL down again )