Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.6.9

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Release Notes for v2.6.9 (230161) - Second Life Beta Viewer

Released May 19, 2011

Installer Downloads

Windows | Mac | Linux

Feature Highlights

Voice in Basic Mode - In this Beta we've added voice to Basic mode, to make communicating with friends even easier! To speak, just click the microphone icon next to the chat bar. To select input/output devices, or to adjust your voice volume, click the arrow button next to the microphone icon.

STORM-973 [crashhunters] Crash at LLViewerTextureList::removeImageFromList(LLViewerFetchedTexture *) [secondlife-bin llviewertexturelist.cpp]

EXP-809 Make Script Warning/Error window scrolling behavior match that of Chat history
STORM-477 Re-implement LLDir::getNextFileInDir() as an iterator object
STORM-1191 [VWR-24197] XUI attributes for path limit constraints inconsistent with actual constraints
STORM-1209 Object continue sending messages after user adding this object to block list
STORM-1260 Today's tip viewer-development build crashes on launch on Windows XP
Abandoned land needs help with automated tools
Login screen reloads when clicking on location slapp

STORM-1236 [RESIZE TEXT BOX OR MODIFY TEXT] Snapshot: Please resize the text box or modify the text so that it fits.
VWR-23688 Non-English: confirmation message for sharing an item with another avatar

CHOP-619 Xoreax has fix for pre-compiled headers issue?
CHOP-624 Investigate to see if we can simplify precompiled headers
KDU Improvements: Add code to random access a texture based on the relevant region of interest using precincts

Crash when Deferred Rendering is Enabled SH-1064 Crash in LLVertexBuffer::setupVertexBuffer - Reminder: Deferred Rendering is still experimental functionality and is not supported

With this release, we support Second Life Viewer versions 2.6.6 (229662), 2.6.3 (227447), and 1.23 (1.23.5), and Second Life Beta Viewer version 2.6.9 (230161). For more information, please go to the Supported Viewers wiki page.