Release Notes/Second Life Server/11

11.02.01.220158

• Interest List project scheduled 2011-02-08
• Features
  • Interest List Improvements

    The Interest List is part of the simulator that controls how updates are sent to viewers. It is a core part of the simulator responsible for timely updates.

    This version should changes the way updates for static (non-moving) objects are detected and sent to the viewer. This should be visible as:

    • Faster region load times. It should take less time to see what is around you after a teleport or log in.
    • Faster updates when moving in a region. While flying, for example, objects should appear sooner than before.

11.01.25.219622

• "Viewer Metrics" project, scheduled 2010-02-01
• Features:
  • Improved viewer-side metrics collection to help Linden Lab analyze performance of various features.

11.01.18.219191

• "Encroachment" project, scheduled 2011-01-25
• Bug Fix / Feature
  • Ability to return objects that overlap ("encroach") on a parcel.

    Depends on future viewer modifications. More details on how this works (here).

11.01.14.219134

• "Simulator Shutdown" project deployed: 2011-01-18
• Features
  • Addresses back-end issues to make simulator/region restarts faster and more reliable.
  • Also includes a bundle of 3 updates to our "central servers." The Centrals, as we call them, are all the various machines that do things besides simulating regions. The three updates are:
    1. Mapserver: a minor update to the machine that generates the region images that you see on the World Map
    2. Inventory API: you may remember that this service was deployed a few weeks ago. We've since had to disable it due to conflicts with older viewers. This deploy is to add a version number to the API capability that the sims hand out, thereby making it only accessible to newer viewers that can properly interact with it. Older viewers will use the legacy inventory protocol that has been on the grid since the dawn of time.
    3. Region Conductor: this is the service that decides which simulator to put regions on. When your region is down, either from a restart, crash, or whatever, the region conductor finds an empty sim to start it up on. The changes here are to improve the efficiency of how regions are placed on sims.

11.01.10.218736

• Deployed 2011-01-11
• Features
  • TP / region crossing compression enabled grid wide.
  • Security fixes.