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Linden Lab has released the thirteenth 1.20 Second Life release candidate viewer. Release candidates start counting from zero, so the first one in the series is RC0.

We're not sure if this is the RC with the least number of changes or not, exactly. Aside from a localization fix where the viewer was still talking about First Land, the remaining three items all seem to constitute code reversions -- essentially undoing what has been done.

User-Interface skin switching isn't in this release. We're going to go out on a limb and suggest that you won't see that for a couple weeks at least.

Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-7178: 'Upload a snapshot' cannot take full screen snapshot; limited to square images
• Fixed: Allow the –set option to be specified multiple times on the command line
• Fixed: Disable the thread monitoring (watchdog) in settings again for the Release Candidate

Localization Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-7086: floater_buy_land.xml still contains messages regarding First Land

The bug that afflicts snapshots has definitely gotten better, though we have reports of it not being entirely gone, but now having intermittently transferred to the main render-window, generally as thick vertical band of black or white (sometimes tinged with blue) occupying a spot near but no longer at the left edge of the screen. In the snapshot preview, this band appears to be filled with randomly colored pixels.

That said, it is definitely improved, and for those users that get the glitch, it is now much less frequent.

Release candidate viewers access your live account on the main Second Life grid (Agni). Potentially they may cause hair-loss in pets, and should be always be kept out of reach of children. The downloads are served by Amazon's S3 service and we use and recommend the use of a download manager to keep your download times to a minimum.

Notably, while they're called release candidates, they're actually beta (and occasionally alpha) releases. The reasoning behind calling them release candidates has never been made clear.

You can download this viewer from the usual place for Windows, Mac and Linux.