Release Notes/Second Life Release Candidate/1.22

Release Notes for Second Life 1.22(5) January 7th, 2009

Known Issues     This iteration RC5 has some important Known Issues that we are working on right now. Review the full list of new bugs for 1.22 here in the Public Issue Tracker. 6px

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-10606: Clicking on Script Error icon does not open Script Warning/Error window
• 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
• Partial Fix: VWR-4004: intermittent crash when switching to & from Fullscreen
• 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 Notes for Second Life 1.22(4) December 18th, 2008

Changes:

• Changed: Turn off Thread monitoring (Watchdog) for RC4
• Changed: Have crashes from watchdog to report an error to stats instead of crash
• Added: Add startup state to viewer's crash report
• Added: Add the crashed thread's ID to viewer's crash report

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: the default color for Text Chat from your avatar should not be blue

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

• Fixed: VWR-10577: chat history and IM history does not automatically scroll when they have focus
• Fixed: VWR-10362: UI [and Ambient] sounds can remain persistent even though disabled
• Fixed: VWR-10397: The 'X' in front of the 'View' menu entries 'Local Chat', 'Communicate' and 'Inventory' isn't toggled
• Fixed: VWR-10686: Snapshots: Save doesnt grey out anymore to indicate if you saved a snapshot already
• Fixed: VWR-10688: Script Editor has no hovertips
  • Also Fixed: VWR-4235: Hovertips not showing in LSL Editor

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: crash on opening Local Chat from Communicate in certain conditions
• Fixed: crash on LLImageJPEG::errorOutputMessage

Localization Fixes:

• Added: CT-98 - CT-116: Brazilian Portuguese translations for remaining strings & phrases - version 1.22
• Added: CT-85: Hungarian translations for remaining strings & phrases - version 1.22
• Fixed: Change all single quotes ' to proper German quotes in the UI
• Fixed: the World menu should open the localized Account History / My Account web pages in German, Japanese, Korean, French
• Fixed: Localize the string "Mute List" in the Communicate flyout button
• Fixed: Fix all truncated strings in Japanese, German translations

Release Notes for Second Life 1.22(3) December 11th, 2008

Changes:

• Removed feature: Group Information > Land & L$ > Planning tab
  • NOTE: This tab has shown wrong, inaccurate calculations since version 1.18, and fails to display any information in version 1.22. Because this feature has been improperly supported by the server for over a year, it is being removed to avoid further confusion.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed (Removed): VWR-10469: Group Liability Info does not display.
• Fixed: VWR-10597: "EjectAvatarFullNameNoBan is missing from Alerts.xml" when trying to eject an avatar
• Fixed: Watchdog sometimes does not crash as designed when reporting an error
• Added: Add extra debugging detection of alternate viewer.exe (second instance of SL) in windows

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

• Fixed: VWR-10823: Right click > Inspect, causes viewer to crash
• Fixed: Crash on upload Texture or upload Animation (llgl.cpp(955))
  • Also Re-fixes: VWR-10353: Crash on trying to upload assets (specifically .TGA files as reported)
• Fixed: VWR-10728: A bug in a new function LLTexUnit::bind(LLImageGL*) in 1.22
• Partial Fix: VWR-10397: The 'X' in front of the 'View' menu entries 'Local Chat', 'Communicate' isn't toggled
• Fixed: 1.22 RC crashes on AMD 2.2Ghz with AGP Diamond Radeon X1550
• Fixed: 1.22 RC3 crashes when attempting to send a Snapshot via email
• Fixed: Errant UI artifact is visible to right of Get Top Scripts window
• Fixed: Mac-updater.app in 1.22 RC will not auto-download the upgraded version

Localization Fixes:

• Added: VWR-8798: Add a Polish translation to the viewer
• Added: VWR-5733: Add a Hungarian translation to the viewer
• Added: CT-117: Simplified Chinese full translation for the viewer

Release Notes for Second Life 1.22(2) December 3rd, 2008

Changes:

• Removed feature: Advanced > UI > Async Keystroke

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-5808: Viewer always creates "url_history.xml" file in "C:\" directory.
• Fixed: Installer should pass language selection to viewer
• Fixed: default the Apple MacBook Pro (or Apple 8600M GT cards) to a lower Graphics default
• Added: Add extra debugging info to help with graphics driver crashes

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: Viewer crashes in and around fullscreen
• Fixed: Trying to interact with a 'Timed-out' viewer Causes Crash
• Fixed: Crash when hold-clicking on a prim that animates
• Fixed: Advanced > Debugging > LLError and Crash causes a hang rather than crashing
• Fixed: Remove Windows async keyboard support, which causes excessive thread monitor freezes/crashes

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

• Fixed: VWR-10719: Objects all black till texture slowly loads
• Fixed: VWR-10570: Avatars may appear as solid black ruths and solid white attachments until they fully rez
• Fixed: VWR-10351: Raytrace picking does not work correctly when right-clicking objects close to edge of screen
• Fixed: VWR-10460: Raytrace picking can't Edit items that cross the avatar mesh
  • NOTE: You should now be able to edit attachments close to your avatar's skin (mesh) once you are in Build/Edit mode.
• Fixed: Raytrace picking can't pick a nametag that overlaps a sim border line
• Fixed: VWR-10555: Viewer 1.22.1 Friendship offers don't work on Server 1.25
• Fixed: VWR-10453: no tool tip shows for the Communicate button
• Fixed: VWR-10349: Email Snapshot doesn't work with multiple recipients
• Fixed: VWR-10343: "Gestures" tag is missing from the heading of the Chat Bar dropdown
• Fixed: VWR-10610: PPC: SL crashes on MacPPC when I open any box to view the items
• Fixed: VWR-10605: PPC: Editing a prim (or linked prims) containing anything crashes MacPPC
• Fixed: VWR-10590: PPC: Crash When Attempting to "Buy" Something
• Fixed: The ignorable popup for Release Notes is no longer utilized, but still shows up in Preferences>Popups

Localization Fixes:

• Added: Add a Danish translation to the viewer
• Added: Add translations for new features in French, Japanese, German, Danish
• Partial Fix: Fix some truncated words in the German translation

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Release Notes for Second Life 1.22(1) November 24th, 2008

Bug Fix:

• Fixed: VWR-10619:Crash when starting a group IM from contacts window ( Crash in LLTextEditor::findHTML )
  • Also Fixed: VWR-10653: Crash when opening an IM session or pasting multiline chat that contains URLs

Release Notes for Second Life 1.22(0) November 20th, 2008

Known Issues     This iteration RC0 has some important Known Issues that we are working on right now. Please see the section Known Issues for RC0 below. 6px

New features:

• Added: VWR-3434: New feature for text chat: "Whisper" as well as Say and Shout.

Changes:

• Changed: VWR-8689: Change the location of "Mute" in the pie menu to avoid mis-clicks
• Changed: Replaced the View > Beacons sub-menu with its own window for more accurate control
• Changed: Replaced pick rendering with a raycast method, to increase performance

Picking refers to identifying the object that is under your cursor. For example, when you alt-zoom, left-click, right-click, etc, a "pick" is performed to calculate what object you clicked on. For alt-zooming, it also determines where in 3D space you clicked. In version 1.22, the method for picking was refactored to use a raycasting method, which has enormous performance advantages. However, the picking of avatars who are wearing non-prim clothes or no clothes is no longer pixel perfect (this is a known limitation). In some circumstances, this will cause unacceptable usability issues while we tune the behavior during the 1.22 Release Candidate cycle. Please read Known Issue VWR-10342 for more information and feedback.

• Added: new info display, Advanced > Rendering > Info Displays > Raycasting
• Removed: Remove Advanced > Compress Snapshots to Disk (no longer support .j2c now that .jpg is available for Snapshots)

Temporary Changes:

We have enabled some special debugging checks during the Release Candidate cycle. These have a short-term effect of causing the viewer to crash more when something goes wrong, but it assists Linden Lab to improve stability by identifying those failure cases. We appreciate that you send us crash reports that occur! These extra checks WILL be removed in a later iteration of the Release Candidate. But these can be turned off by a Resident:

• Turned on Thread monitoring (Watchdog) during the Release Candidate cycle
  • Thread monitor will detect when the application is frozen for a period greater than 20 seconds and possibly force a crash with detailed logs
  • Thread monitor can be disabled with a command line setting "--set WatchdogEnabled 0"
  • The threshold timing of the thread monitor is set in the file \SecondLifeReleaseCandidate\app_settings\settings.xml under the key "MainloopTimeoutDefault"

Bug Fixes:

• Partial Fix: VWR-8932: 1.21 RC - Script editor performance degrades with large scripts
• Fixed: VWR-9467: 1.21 RC will not install due to error opening file for writing (xulutil.dll etc)
• Fixed: VWR-8013: minimap causes lag when megaprims are present
• Fixed: VWR-3058: Viewer crashes trying to install on Korean Windows XP when the Windows username contains Korean characters
  • Also Fixed: Viewer crashes when run on Korean Windows XP when the Windows username contains Korean characters
• Partial Fix: VWR-9985 Gesture editor crashes in non-EN-US languages
  • Note: Until the code is better internationalized, these 4 translations have been reverted to English
• Fixed: VWR-8944: Viewer crashes on logout (crash on QuickTime.qts )
• Fixed: VWR-7284: Mute of Object Doesn't Work
• Fixed: VWR-1814: Can not change the volume of looping sounds once they start (except with master volume control)
• Fixed: VWR-8310: Cannot teleport from landmark - broken LLMsgVarData::addData()
• Fixed: VWR-996: wrong visualisation of animations
• Fixed: VWR-2387: Animations always drift when uploading with an inner loop of anything except 0% - 100%
• Fixed: VWR-8398: Previewing UV map as sculpted prim before uploading doesn't work any more
• Fixed: VWR-1180: Inappropriate uses of ctype (is*) functions in prevalidate methods for LLLineEditor
• Fixed: VWR-4070: OpenJPEG: LLImageJ2COJ::decodeImpl does not check if requested channel is higher than available
• Fixed: SVC-2771: Reset Script in Selection fails
• Fixed: VWR-9850: Report Abuse popup still references Police Blotter
• Fixed: VWR-2054: Several scripting tooltips could be improved
• Fixed: Rename tooltip on llPushObject icon in the menu bar to read "No Pushing"
  • Also Fixed: Rename the "Restrict Pushing" checkbox on About Land > Options to "No Pushing"
• Fixed: Reword some error messages relating to not having enough L$
• Fixed: SL no longer detects correct amount of VRAM
• Fixed: Detected video memory is too high and causes some texture downloads to stall or load forever
• Fixed: SLURL in chat log has space before it highlighted, link launches browser and teleport dialog
• Fixed: Advanced Menu>Rendering>Object-Object Occlusion... can be greyed out but still showing an X.
• Fixed: Basic DBus support for the Linux Client
• Fixed: View > Communicate should do the same action as the Communicate button
• Fixed: avatar animates when hitting escape while sitting on the ground
• Fixed: sorting of Group member list ignores the year
• Fixed: Switching focus from the SL Viewer in mouselook and returning causes loss of mouse control
• Fixed: linux client should send secondlife:// URLs to a running client if such exists
• Fixed: SecondLife.log reports a WARNING even when using the --login command correctly
• Fixed: On launch, Viewer doesn't clear keyboard input queue after becoming visible, so keystrokes for other apps can overwrite the First Name field
• Fixed: Verify that Landmark asset creation callbacks are happening with new server code

Bug Fixes to the rendering system:

• Fixed: VWR-8920: moving the camera around, or zooming in on an avatar, some attachments 'disappear' from view
• Fixed: VWR-7957: Clothing skinning error with nVidia 177.xx series drivers
• Fixed: VWR-8012: Gray shading all over clothing and avatars in world since the Windlight roll out
• Fixed: VWR-8668: appearance mode has a blue or red light
• Fixed: VWR-3272: WindLight: Some supported graphics cards have disabled shaders
• Fixed: MISC-707: /voicelevel3 gestures not triggered by voice chat.
• Fixed: VWR-8172: Camera is Unstable when editing an object
• Fixed: VWR-2: When editing multiple unlinked prims, trying to move/rotate by Build tool numbers suggests it will work on all prims, but only adjusts one prim.
• Partial Fix: VWR-4025: Upper left corner black triangle appears on the GMA 950 chipset
  • Note: Turned off draw pool ground on the intel 950 for Mac
• Fixed: View is not reset when teleporting in flycam mode
• Fixed: Flycam mode does not disable alt-zoom icons
• Fixed: No Stars when Atmospheric Shaders disabled
• Fixed: Email Snapshot > Recipient's Email: field erroneously accepts non-ascii characters
• Fixed: Update GPU table for newer graphics cards
• Fixed: Add new GPU cards for 1.22

Bug Fixes to the Snapshot feature:

• Fixed: "Send" becomes disabled in Send Postcard when you click on More>>
• Fixed: Snapshot Save As suggests filename Snapshot.jpg.jpeg
• Fixed: BMP format displays wrong file size in Snapshot floater

Small usability Improvements:

• Changed: VWR-8689: Change the location of "Mute" in the pie menu to avoid mis-clicks
• Fixed: VWR-3336: Friend dots on the Minimap are not a different color (yellow)
• Fixed: VWR-7802: Save texture does not use texture name for default file name
• Fixed: VWR-4981: Windlight environment settings save in a bad location
  • Note: Now custom skies/water will save to the location Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\windlight
• Fixed: SVC-2396: Particles not handled properly as hud
• Fixed: LLFloaterBuy explicitly deselects objects when closed
• Fixed: Improve the apply logic of the following Preference tabs, to more correctly obey OK/Apply/Cancel:
  • Preferences > General, Input & Camera, Network, Web, Text Chat, Voice Chat, Communication
• Changed: clarify the option Preferences > General > Start location
• Changed: Replaced the View > Beacons sub-menu with its own window for more accurate control

Localization changes:

• Fixed: VWR-3801: In certain languages, parcel primitive usage is broken: displays only as 0 in About Land
• Fixed: VWR-9940: Bad translation in Japanese: "shouts", "whispers"
• Fixed: VWR-9833: Translation of some viewer options in Japanese is incorrect
• Fixed: VWR-1874: Some locales incorrectly use Kbps to mean kbps
• Added: Six new Language choices in the installer application
• Fixed: Revised some terminology in French translations

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers

• Fixed: VWR-10555 Viewer 1.22 friendship offers don't work on Server 1.25
• Fixed: VWR-10473: Scroll bar opens at bottom of About: section in Profile window
• Fixed: VWR-10454: Local Chat window fails to scroll properly (IM and Groupchats slide to top)
• Fixed: Fix build error due to missing msvcr80.dll
• Fixed: Viewer crashes on Windows without .NET 2.0 runtime installed

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-10476: Opening Get Top Scripts menu causes crash
• Fixed: VWR-10355: Crash on clicking a hyperlink in any instance of the inworld HTML browser
• Fixed: VWR-10353: Crash on trying to upload assets
• Fixed: crash on LLViewerObject::markDead
• Fixed: crash on LLViewerRegion::getPosAgentFromRegion
• Fixed: crash on Group chat floater (LLTextEditor::removeTextFromEnd)
• Fixed: Interacting with tortured prim crashes on Linux and WindowsXP

Source changes:

• Removed: Removed dead code related to a top-level landmarks menu
• Changed: partial llrender dependency removal from mapserver (bind & clamp)

Known Issues for RC0     Outstanding Critical issues: VWR-10342: Pixel imprecision on cursor picking needs to be tuned For example, in RC0 we are aware that: VWR-10351: Picking does not work correctly when right-clicking objects close to edge of screen VWR-10460: Can't edit items that cross the avatar mesh VWR-10570: Avatars may appear as solid black ruths and solid white attachments until they fully rez Some Crashes that will be fixed in RC2: VWR-10380: Viewer can crash when setting Anti-aliasing to 4x and antisotropic filter VWR-10345: Viewer crashes in and around fullscreen Viewer can crash when hold-clicking on a prim that animates Various UI errors and omissions: VWR-10469: Group Liability Info does not display. VWR-10349: Email Snapshot doesn't work with multiple recipients VWR-10396: Crtl-H toggles the Communicate window instead of Local Chat when it is torn off VWR-10397: The 'X' in front of the View menu entries 'Local Chat', 'Communicate' and 'Inventory' isn't toggled VWR-10453: no tool tip shows for the Communicate button VWR-10343: "Gestures" tag is missing from the heading of the Chat Bar dropdown Review the full list of new bugs for 1.22 here in the Public Issue Tracker 6px