Second Life 1.22 (RC5) now available

by Tateru Nino Jan 11th 2009 at 9:00PM

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

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC5 is the sixth release in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). Barring any showstoppers, this appears to be the last version in the series before the release of 1.22 as the official Second Life viewer.

This edition has four more crash fixes, fixups to the wonky selection algorithms, localization fixes, and and fixes up some defective UI behavior.Full release notes for this version are after the jump.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed: Fix up the crash reporter when reporting freezes.
Fixed: Remove the Help reference to the 'Planning' Tab in the viewer
Fixed: misleading error message with invalid email address

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

Fixed: VWR-10460: raytrace picking can't Edit or touch items that cross the avatar mesh
Fixed: VWR-11130: raytrace picking can't select a HUD after zooming
Fixed: VWR-11185: HUDs will not capture mouse-clicks when rezzed inworld before attaching to HUD point
- Also Fixed: VWR-11222: Buttons not clicking, when HUD is tight against the corner
Fixed: VWR-10611: Parts of UI elements turn darker/transparent when minimizing
Fixed: VWR-10712: Toggling from fullscreen to windowed mode using the key combination Alt+enter will cause the viewer to toggle back to full screen

Crash Fixes:

Fixed: VWR-10714: after downloading 1.22 RC1 (Mac) I crash every time I try to upload a sound
Fixed: VWR-4004: intermittent crash when switching to & from Fullscreen (result of corrupt texture handling)
Fixed: crash on LLMenuGL::jumpKeysActive()
Fixed: crash in LLTexLayerSetBuffer::isInitialized() caused by a null pointer

Localization Fixes:

Fixed: VWR-11069: Installer displays "China" in language selection
Fixed: Chinese localization has overlapping text in Search window
Fixed: Fix obviously truncated text in Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Danish

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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Tags: bugs, linden-lab, patches, release-candidate-viewer, second-life, second-life-viewer, sl-version-1.22

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jack said on 10:53PM 1-11-2009

Second Life is just a chat box that got some custom places and some actions you can do... Its pretty much the same that I did in 1990 Amsterdam 3D someone did buy it and now it did grow into this ... and never got any cent for it :(

aliasisudonomo said on 7:24PM 1-12-2009

And World of Warcraft is just a very pretty Dikumud. Did you have a point?

Alicia Stella said on 2:09AM 1-13-2009

...And email is just the old pony express but repackaged.

...And the internet is just Prodigy or AOL, only with a larger userbase.

...And Virtual Reality is just Nintendo with the screen strapped to your face.

...And Cell Phones are just like yelling only with a broader range.

...And I am sick and tired of negative comments that are completely irrelevant to the original posted story here at Massively. This is not a forum, Jack, so go some place else... mayhaps under a bridge.