Downloading test builds

Many developers, both inside Linden Lab and in Open Source, are constantly implementing new features and fixing problems with the viewer. One of the most important ways that you can help with that process as a user is to install and try these development viewers and provide feedback.

All of the viewers here are under active development - there may be some problems with existing features; if you want a more stable experience, use the released Second Life Viewer.

There are several places to look for viewers that need testing:

Snowstorm Team Builds

These are issues being put through our pre-integration team QA.

STORM-1820

Discoverability of the menu that opens the Block List is difficult

STORM-1839

Banlines need to be extended from 768 meters to 5000 meters now that explicit ban height has been changed.

STORM-1842

Don't save per-account settings if login not fully successful

http://automated-builds-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/hg/repo/Snowstorm_viewer-project-review/rev/255291/index.html

Mesh Deformer

STORM-1716

Mesh deformer test version

There is a growing collection of test garments for use with this at: Hippo Hollow (217, 42, 57)^🖈

Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

Chat Spell Checking

STORM-83

Check the spelling of your chat text on the fly!

Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

Chat Auto-Replace

STORM-1738

Automatically correct common mistakes and expand abbreviations as you type

Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

Comprehensive tracking of Snowstorm issues can be seen on the Snowstorm dashboard in Jira.

Developer Builds

Everyone may post links here to viewers that should be tested, provided the viewers are Second Life compatible and TPVp compliant when connected to Second Life.

STORM-1716 Mesh Deformer

This viewer implements an alpha version of a deformer for mesh clothing. This is a very early version - clothing should not be designed on the assumption that the transformations in the this viewer will remain stable. It is made available only to explore the feature and its limits; report results in STORM-1716 please.

Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Source: https://bitbucket.org/oz_linden/storm-1716
Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

VWR-25062 Add user controlled filter for web media

Contribution by Tonya Souther and Sione Lomu

Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Source: https://bitbucket.org/oz_linden/vwr-25062
Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

Development Mailing List

Developers who are looking for testers sometimes make requests for testing on the opensource-dev mailing list.

Development Integration

The viewer-development source code repository is where all new Viewer 2 development is brought together. It's the best available look at what will be in the next viewer release.

This is the absolute newest version available. Note that this one may not have been tested at all yet - you have been warned.

Latest Development Viewers:
Windows | Macintosh | Linux

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Details for these builds (build logs, included changesets)

Project

Various viewer development projects working on major new features may from time to time release Project Viewers to provide early testing opportunities. You can find any that are currently available on the Alternate Viewers page.