Release Notes/Second Life Release/1.19.0

New features and changes:

• Voice
  • Voice Chat is now enabled by default to allow Residents to hear other Residents.
  • A microphone is required to speak to other Residents.
  • Push-to-Talk is the default mode for transmitting voice.
  • These settings can be modified via the Voice Chat tab of the Preferences dialog.

• Age Verification:
  • The user interface for parcel and estate access has been clarified and improved.
  • Added the ability to restrict access to parcels and estates to age verified adults.
  • Removed the ability to *ban* access to Residents who have provided payment info or who have used payment info. We continue to support the ability to *allow* access to only those who have provided payment info.

• Crash Reporter
  • The crash reporting mechanism has been improved. Following a crash, more useful information will be sent and reports should now take less than 10 seconds.

• VWR-210: Voice Support on Linux (EXPERIMENTAL) - see README-linux-voice.txt

• Other changes:
  • Change alert message that pops up when you set Busy
  • Add "Teleporting from SLURL to SLURL" to the chat history to provide quick and dirty "back" links
  • Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
  • Remove "New Account..." and "Preferences" buttons from login screen for 1.19.0

Fixes:

• SVC-930: Prims set for sale - prices are incorrectly set when multiple prims taken to inventory and rezzed
• SVC-1125: New Search: Beacons aren't shown when teleporting to regions with "Allow Direct Teleport" disabled
• VWR-1125: Clicking Title Bar While Mouselook'd Repositions SL Window
• VWR-1137: Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties window
• VWR-1145: Unable To Connect help not available
• VWR-1162: Land for sale includes L$1 parcels that are not actually for sale
• VWR-1350: Color settings do not appear to be applied to LSL default text
• VWR-1475: OpenJPEG always uploads single layer lossless images
• VWR-1590: Keyboard changes inventory selection after right-click
• VWR-1627: Classified metrics are reset to 0 when the ad is updated
• VWR-1651: Add ability to open a partners profile whilst viewing an avatar's profile
• VWR-1774: Some avatar positions result in no Z-axis arrow when editing attachments
• VWR-1873: Typos in en-us locale file
• VWR-1919: Remove texture UUID information from UI unless full-perm
• VWR-2030: Avatar only turns half-way in Appearance Mode
• VWR-2142: Parcel voice icon doesn't reflect disabled status if voice isn't used
• VWR-2256: Mac updater directory permission issues
• VWR-2367: Wrong handling of maximum length of Group Notice message
• VWR-2404: lossless texture compression on small textures not lossless
• VWR-2410: noise dot appear in chat window when clien running long with chatting.
• VWR-2411: Possible crash in pipeline.cpp
• VWR-2412: Possible crash drawpoolwater
• VWR-2421: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT + Second Life = "Couldn't match GPU to a class","Setting GPU Class to Class0"
• VWR-2483: the macviewer.xcodeprj file doesn't create stripped binaries on Deployment or Universal
• VWR-250: Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows
• VWR-2550: Scuplty vertex coordinates are size/256 meters too small on the positive faces
• VWR-2614: gActiveChannelSpeakerMgr not deleted at end of program in viewer.cpp
• VWR-2617: Adds LLSD support to flex/light/sculpt params for primitives
• VWR-2652: Changes needed to compile viewer against lastest libopenjpeg2000
• VWR-2684: Minor leak in floaters using layoutstacks
• VWR-2722: Muting an object with pie menu only mutes the prim you select, not entire linkset
• VWR-2847: Wrong hover text in Japanese UI
• VWR-2854: Some sculpted prims render as balls on close zoom, which look fine in older clients
• VWR-2867: Eyes rotate unnaturally around their X axis. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise
• VWR-289: URLs for video media streaming need to be URL-encoded or stream doesn't work
• VWR-2959: Windows (Visual Studio) solution file refers to a non-existing project "build_all"
• VWR-3088: Unchecking "Automatic Appearance Camera Movement" no longer has any effect
• VWR-3206: OpenJPEG svn478 causes slviewer to crash
• VWR-3428: Checking a users profile while editing a linked set causes viewer crash
• VWR-3458: Mouse cursor background is opaque white instead of transparent on big endian systems
• VWR-3558: llLoadURL cannot be muted
• VWR-356: Move delete to the bottom of context menus, separated by spacer
• VWR-3748: Builds fail on 1.18.6 RC if not using MOZLIB due to missing #if LL_LIBXUL_ENABLED in 3 places in indra/newview/llpanellogin.cpp
• VWR-3948: Underlayers no longer removable by pie menu in Windlight, release candidates
• VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can't edit.
• dialogs have extra vertical space
• Photo Album: name in Properties cut off some Japanese characters
• New gestures do not appear active in inventory
• Make parcel name in menu "look" active
• "Wear" pie option shows up for many objects even if resident does not own and cannot wear them.
• Textures on no-transfer objects can be transferred
• Deleted gestures still work
• Inventory description out of sync after renaming via Properties window
• Show private estate tiles when World Map is zoomed out
• Properties description not updated when preview description updated
• Buying object contents broken
• Improve window opening behavior, ensuring it is mostly on screen
• No-modify objects can be modified through Open pane
• Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties
• Japanese IME mode should be set and postiion of any input windows fixed for non-Japanese fields
• ctrl-shift-w doesn't work if no windows have focus
• Avatar falling in place - Alliez Mysterio
• Linux crash reporter does not run on next execution after forcing an infinite loop and forcefully exiting
• hitting enter should immediately set the value of a field
• Inventory Folder Loading state not clearly indicated
• Add warning dialog to the Land Sale process to warn against selling land to Anyone
• Legacy flossexception link needs to be fixed in source
• make link from client log in window to "Forgot Password" page
• Remove button under estate managers list enables after estate manager clicks in the list
• Changing search field should cancel current selection
• Estate tab within Tools / Region Estate has wrong settings for enable of Restrict Access upon initialization
• llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL caps output to 255 characters
• XUI LoadFromXML function doesn't work
• Sanitize floater sizing behavior when SL window is made very small
• Animation won't stop if avatar teleports while animated
• Can't paste name of object into View > Mute List > Mute object by name
• pressing ctrl-F10 then Escape causes keyboard to be unresponsive
• Make SL viewer updater show a progress bar so that people know how long to wait
• Can't double-click on groups in profile after changing your active title
• Getting multiple copies of texture dragged onto prim
• blue dialog's 'next' widget steals focus
• Audio should be encoded for upload at a 'good enough' quality rather than a user-selected bitrate
• multiple preview windows open for a single texture/snapshot saved inside a note card
• Enhance Viewer to support new Age Verification feature
• Rename crash setting to cause crash logger to come up for all residents
• Change crash logger "Remember this choice" function to default to on
• Rework Ban tab of floater_about_land
• Windows IME positioning fixed
• Viewer crashes in assert when playing Sword Strike animation
• Unable to set 'Group Access' for land that is also 'Public Access' (Was VWR-3667)
• Disable QuickTime when the installed version is less than version with RTSP exploit
• Korean viewer crashes on startup
• Move fullscreen message from login screen to viewer prefs
• linux client doesn't recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout)
• Search results window displays "s..." and "n..." instead of "searching..." and "none found"
• QuickTime disabled message can not be ignored
• Crash on login page when using Logitech LCD Keyboard
• SEC-17 Ability to Access Sculpted Prim Textures from Database without owning actual sculpt texture, allowing for people to "steal" sculpts.
• info window does not pop up when transitioning from a Havok1 to Havok4 region
• Repoint Report Bug... Viewer link to Pjira
• Upload Animation window: Button missing in Stopped window state

Source changes:

• Upgrade Win32 libvorbis to v1.2
• VWR-2881: Bundled Mesa libs are not GPL compatible
• upgrade in-tree Linux GL headers to Mesa 7.x
• upgrade in-tree Win32 GL headers to version without SGI Free B license
• Rebuild and/or update libraries to use statically linked libs.
• Remove llfloaterhtmlhelp.cpp / h and floater_html_help.xml