Second Life 1.22 (RC3) now available
Filed under: Bugs, Patches, News items, Second Life
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 that stops the show. Full release notes for this version are after the jump.
Changes:
- Removed feature: Group Information > Land & L$ > Planning tab
- NOTE: This tab has shown wrong, inaccurate calculations since version 1.18, and fails to display any information in version 1.22. Because this feature has been improperly supported by the server for over a year, it is being removed to avoid further confusion.
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed (Removed): VWR-10469: Group Liability Info does not display.
- Fixed: VWR-10597: "EjectAvatarFullNameNoBan is missing from Alerts.xml" when trying to eject an avatar
- Fixed: Watchdog sometimes does not crash as designed when reporting an error
- Added: Add extra debugging detection of alternate viewer.exe (second instance of SL) in windows
Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:
- Fixed: VWR-10823: Right click > Inspect, causes viewer to crash
- Fixed: Crash on upload Texture or upload Animation (llgl.cpp(955))
- Also Re-fixes: VWR-10353: Crash on trying to upload assets (specifically .TGA files as reported)
- Fixed: VWR-10728: A bug in a new function LLTexUnit::bind(LLImageGL*) in 1.22
- Partial Fix: VWR-10397: The 'X' in front of the 'View' menu entries 'Local Chat', 'Communicate' isn't toggled
- Fixed: 1.22 RC crashes on AMD 2.2Ghz with AGP Diamond Radeon X1550
- Fixed: 1.22 RC3 crashes when attempting to send a Snapshot via email
- Fixed: Errant UI artifact is visible to right of Get Top Scripts window
- Fixed: Mac-updater.app in 1.22 RC will not auto-download the upgraded version
Localization Fixes:
- Added: VWR-8798: Add a Polish translation to the viewer
- Added: VWR-5733: Add a Hungarian translation to the viewer
- Added: CT-117: Simplified Chinese full translation for the viewer
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Loki said on 5:32AM 12-12-2008
I bet it will freeze my Mac horribley within the first 20 mins of use making me revert back to the Nicholaz cool viewer 1.19....
I shall let you know
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Loki said on 9:13AM 12-12-2008
Took just over 15 minutes before the viewer froze and crashed. Though LL seem to be working on it, as it did not take my whole computer down with it this time. So they are getting somewhere... oh well back to 1.19
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TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 11:01PM 12-12-2008
isn't there an alternative to intentionally crashing? that functionality is good for humor, but I find it weird they actually wanna be associated with things that crash on purpose, the thread watchdog thing kinda makes the users be crash test dummies...
hm...I'm not in conditions to be sure I'm making sense, please accept my apologies if I didn't
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Tateru Nino said on 1:29AM 12-13-2008
Well, the idea of the thread watchdog is that it triggers when an important thread stops working (which usually ends up freezing the whole viewer within the next several seconds) or when the whole viewer freezes.
The watchdog then generates a crash so that information about what caused the freeze can be sent back to the engineers at the Lab.
TigroSpottystripes Katsu said on 3:55PM 12-13-2008
ah, it is meant to have freezes provide more feedback, I see...wait, then why do they make it crash more in the first RCs ? are the freezes on the following versions less important?