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Second Life 1.22 (RC2) now available

Filed under: Bugs, Patches, News items, Second Life

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.

Changes:

  • Removed feature: Advanced > UI > Async Keystroke

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-5808: Viewer always creates "url_history.xml" file in "C:\" directory.
  • Fixed: Installer should pass language selection to viewer
  • Fixed: default the Apple MacBook Pro (or Apple 8600M GT cards) to a lower Graphics default
  • Added: Add extra debugging info to help with graphics driver crashes

Crash Fixes:

  • Fixed: Viewer crashes in and around fullscreen
  • Fixed: Trying to interact with a 'Timed-out' viewer Causes Crash
  • Fixed: Crash when hold-clicking on a prim that animates
  • Fixed: Advanced > Debugging > LLError and Crash causes a hang rather than crashing
  • Fixed: Remove Windows async keyboard support, which causes excessive thread monitor freezes/crashes

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

  • Fixed: VWR-10719: Objects all black till texture slowly loads
  • Fixed: VWR-10570: Avatars may appear as solid black ruths and solid white attachments until they fully rez
  • Fixed: VWR-10351: Raytrace picking does not work correctly when right-clicking objects close to edge of screen
  • Fixed: VWR-10460: Raytrace picking can't Edit items that cross the avatar mesh
    • NOTE: You should now be able to edit attachments close to your avatar's skin (mesh) once you are in Build/Edit mode.
  • Fixed: Raytrace picking can't pick a nametag that overlaps a sim border line
  • Fixed: VWR-10555: Viewer 1.22.1 Friendship offers don't work on Server 1.25
  • Fixed: VWR-10453: no tool tip shows for the Communicate button
  • Fixed: VWR-10349: Email Snapshot doesn't work with multiple recipients
  • Fixed: VWR-10343: "Gestures" tag is missing from the heading of the Chat Bar dropdown
  • Fixed: VWR-10610: PPC: SL crashes on MacPPC when I open any box to view the items
  • Fixed: VWR-10605: PPC: Editing a prim (or linked prims) containing anything crashes MacPPC
  • Fixed: VWR-10590: PPC: Crash When Attempting to "Buy" Something
  • Fixed: The ignorable popup for Release Notes is no longer utilized, but still shows up in Preferences>Popups

Localization Fixes:

  • Added: Add a Danish translation to the viewer
  • Added: Add translations for new features in French, Japanese, German, Danish
  • Partial Fix: Fix some truncated words in the German translation

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.

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