Release Notes/Second Life Beta Viewer/2.0/Advanced Info

This is a beta release. Please see Known Issues for important information and limitations.

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Key PJIRAs     New Features & Improvements 724 Votes - VWR-812: Ability to add alpha to base avatar skin 542 Votes - VWR-1449: 3 New Avatar Layers - 2nd Tattoo layers between existing skin/tattoo layer and clothing layer 366 Votes - VWR-11397: Smaller Avis without being Tinys :) or More features for poor Tinys 145 Votes - VWR-16455: Allow inventory pointers to no-copy items 13 Votes - VWR-10311: Enable LipSync by default Bug Fixes 79 Votes - VWR-5474: secondlife:// URLs not working any longer - even on the SL-Website 35 Votes - VWR-138: Animation Priority not working correctly, Can't create new AOs 28 Votes - VWR-9065: (intermittent) Right Click > profile on avatar does not display profile 27 Votes - VWR-6432: Space Navigator operation with vehicles is broken

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Detailed Release Notes

New Features and Improvements

• VWR-812: Ability to add alpha to base avatar skin
  
• VWR-3725: Please add resize option to the SEARCH window UI
  
• VWR-8393: Have build scripts copy fmod from an external location
  
• VWR-7800: Joystick / SpaceNavigator. Camera should remain in position when exiting flycam mode into avatar mode.
  
• VWR-10636: Hyperlinks in alert dialogs should be selectable (clickable)!
  
• VWR-10717: Right Space Navigator button should toggle fly in avatar movment, not jump/flyup.
  
• VWR-10311: Enable LipSync by default
  
• In chat history, use a teleport hyperlink as source name for object IMs
  
• Allow viewer hyperlinks to have different text than the actual url
  
• We Need a Linden Sale Option to Sell Land to Anyone
  
• Reworked Preferences to only save changes on Ok or Apply
  
• Revamped group creation confirmation dialog to be more communicative
  
• Moved UI Size/resolution scale to Preferences > Skins
  
• Gstreamer Disabled on 64-bit Linux
  
• Add easy way to copy URLs from viewer chat
  
• Changed auto-populate value in buy L$ window from 1000 to 2000
  
• Provide Viewer with information to display script usage
• Avatar and Group names can be copied via a new menu by right-clicking over the name
  
• Make About Second Life window use new Url hyperlinking features
  
• Normalize fonts across systems
  
• Pie Menus replaced with Context Menus
  
• Search Redesigned
  

What You'll Notice First

The UI has a sleaker, more polished look The Top Bar has been redesigned to provide more browser-like functionality Menus have been rearranged to group like functionality A browser-like Navigation Bar has been added to simplify teleporting to other locations A Home button has been added to make returning to your Home Location easier than ever There's a new Favorites Bar that you can use to enable one-click teleporting to your favorite destinations Search now has the power of Google behind it Buying L$ is quicker and easier than ever Nearby Media Controls and a Master Volume slider have been added for easy control of sounds and any media that may be playing nearby. A new Sidebar puts access to your Profile, People, Landmarks, Inventory, and Appearance, right at your fingertips The Landmarks panel includes your Teleport History, which will allow you to quickly and easily return to prior destinations - across multiple sessions Difficult to navigate pie menus have been replaced with new context menus that make more options available to you

Bug Fixes

• VWR-138: Animation Priority not working correctly, Can't create new AOs
  
• VWR-2242: Specially formatted .BVH file can cause avatar distortion
  
• VWR-3595: "Second Life requires True Color (32-bit) to run in a window" message is incorrect
  
• VWR-3819: Script Editing Undo is Unreliable
  
• VWR-4057: Multi-line chat display bug - first character in line missing
  
• VWR-4955: Local Chat doesn't show end of last conversation
  
• VWR-5474: secondlife:// URLs not working any longer - even on the SL-Website
  
• VWR-5717: Selected Text is not replaced by Input text when Japanese IME is on
  
• VWR-6432: Space Navigator operation with vehicles is broken
  
• VWR-8454: PARCEL_FLAG_ALLOW_CREATE_GROUP_OBJECTS not highlighted in script editor
  
• VWR-8773: Closing parenthesis ")" breaks urls
  
• VWR-8885: Move character/*.xml files to source bundle
  
• VWR-9065: (intermittent) Right Click >profile on avatar does not display profile
  
• VWR-9069: Region variable says 'Region Name' in AR if no object is selected
  
• VWR-9194: Entering then leaving mouselook re-enlarges and minimized window
  
• VWR-9248: On Mac: the "--url" option causes a command line parsing error
  
• VWR-9377: Mapping will default to leave exact sim name listing first. (Searching Gar forces Gar to come up and not Garden of Dreams)
  
• VWR-9620: send_parcel_select_objects in newview/llfloaterland.cpp uses the wrong datatype for the ReturnType field causing a warning
  
• VWR-10829: Linux Viewer: CLICK_ACTION_PAY shows CLICK_ACTION_PLAY icon
  
• VWR-11128: Python not always detected by develop.py
  
• VWR-11172: A source coding mistake prevents number-pad keys from specifying Ctrl+digit shortcuts on Windows
  
• VWR-12533: Linux viewer build for OpenAL fails during packaging unless FMOD library is available
  
• VWR-12569: A comment in lluistring.h contains undefined UTF-8 code sequences
  
• VWR-12587: Cmake install target has a hard coded secondlife-bin reference remaining
  
• VWR-12617: Poor type name that violates Coding Standard breaks compatibility with system header files
  
• VWR-12620: Viewer build fails on Linux when compiled with -O2 (--type=Release)
  
• VWR-12691: Dangerous macro leads to possible wrong code
  
• VWR-12763: non-portable printf specifier used with size_t causes FTBFS on 64bit (due to -Werror)
  
• VWR-12995: FTBFS: error: format '%-3d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
  
• VWR-13202: Right clicking mouse triggers arrow key control events
  
• VWR-13816: Resizing the Search Window Causes the Results to Refresh back to First Page
  
• VWR-13947: Viewer gpu_list.txt does not include some recent NVIDIA graphics cards
  
• VWR-14267: Clicking send in an IM window does not add the sent text to the line editor history
  
• VWR-14679: SLURLs and teleport Links not parsed properly
  
• VWR-15549: A fast double-click on an object with the "Pay Object" click action set, can result in multiple super-imposed payment floaters
  
• SVC-3871: Crash of viewer when clicking on ghost objects at (0,0,0) on a sim
  
• Windows: Accelerator keys should be "Ctrl+X" rather than "Ctrl-X"
  
• Restored folders have 'Purge Item' and 'Restore Item' options
  
• New Server Tools - Prep Land For Sale
  
• URLs in chat log terminated incorrectly when newline in chat
  
• Notecards/Texture windows don't open completely when opened from inventory
  
• All items in a notecard become underlined
  
• Clicked tab should be displayed when 'Ignore Changes' is selected in group info window
  
• OSX Viewer Installer (for an RC) opens with poor positioning
  
• Help->About Second Life doesn't differentiate between 32- and 64-bit Vista
  
• Inventory> Search Recent Items highlighting incorrect characters
  
• Implement volume serial for Linux client
  
• Viewer crashes on startup if installed into a custom folder with Korean, Japanese or Chinese characters in path
  
• About Land dialog no longer shows Area: field
  
• MOTD formatting has serious usability issues
  
• Coverity Prevent: EVALUATION_ORDER defects
  
• Running a dev build of Second Life will make console window show up on non-dev builds (Windows)
  
• Mac LLFastTimer uses wall clock instead of Intel PMU
  
• Listview abstraction
  
• indra/newview/res-sdl/toolpay.BMP is modified during ./develop.py configure
  
• Cleanup Preferences
  
• Selected objects / primitives should be greyed out when nothing is selected
  
• Viewer Download Links
  
• UI scaling does not affect fallback fonts until restart
  
• Keyboard shortcuts on OSX viewer overridden by OSX
  
• Linux 1.24.0.120778 client fails to run
  
• Avatar hair has no (alpha) transparency
  
• Object transparency changes do not appear in real time.
  
• Changes to texture mapping are not immediately visible
  
• Update LLAgentInfo::forwardViewerStats() to make all viewer statistics (ViewerStats) available to streambase
  
• Non-unity "UI size" breaks picking
  
• Pants flare is missing for other avatars, but looks fine on my own avatar
  
• Texture console stats are obscured by the loading textures
  
• Invite to group, search by name will not show resident if their first name is two characters
  
• Wear folders via drag and drop
  
• When viewer is in the background during login, cannot right click to select and alt opens build tools
  
• Change "2nd Life", "1st Life", "First Life", "SLURL" to terms approved by Legal
  
• Panel_group_roles.xml is showing panels with visible="false" on initial access
  
• Get rid of colors.xml in favor of colors_def.xml
  
• All group chat messages spawn blue dialog in upper-right corner
  
• Hard to open local chat, needs bottom bar widget for now
  
• Wrong buttons in Notes panel at button, what should go there?
  
• Must all UI art files be flagged preload=true in textures.xml?
  
• Shadows build has moire shading on the ground
  
• Scrollbar problems with large amount of landmarksv
  
• Caps lock always on in sidebar filter
  
• Can't sort friends by online status
  
• Landmark bar context menu directs to old floater
  
• Can't rename from Landmarks bar
  
• Background of preferences floater changes color when graphics settings are changed
  
• Horizontal scroll thumb too high
  
• Color bug -- Filtered items in panels
  
• Tab color too low contrast
  
• Unfocused floater opacity too dark
  
• Search bar doesn't scale with window resize
  
• Non-writable (properties) text fields are blank
  
• Search results floater too large when sidebar open
  
• Context menus for text blocks are inconsistent
  
• Notecards opened from object inventory are blank
  
• Global Illumination causes brightness to flicker
  
• Second Life (and computer) crashes when graphics is set at full screen
  
• Color bug: User test feedback - tabs and buttons are too low contrast
  
• Potential DOS vector: Requesting the Details and Summary multiple times generates a different cap for each request
  
• GeForce GT 120 belongs in gputable.txt
  
• Drop down boxes with text entry ignore the text in the entry field
  
• Remove temporary preferences tab and organize advanced options
  
• Intra-region TP is blocked by inter-region TP throttle
  
• Simulator crash - getData: Block InventoryData #0 not in message LinkInventoryItem
  
• Teleport throttle blocks prematurely when agent teleports back and forth between 2 regions
  
• SLURS does not work for following types
  
• Textures can overlay on MoaP
  
• Invisiprims are broken.
  
• Newly added media does not autoplay
  
• LLViewerMediaImpl::navigateInternal spam when editing object properties
  
• Media needs Focus Ring
  
• New webprims navigate to about:blank if another avatar is nearby
  

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Known Issues     Help Search While general Search is functional in this release, Help Search will not be available for the Public Beta Imported Library Outfits EXT-5547 Auto-population broken - With a new account, My Inventory > Clothing > Imported Library Clothing is not successfully gathered into outfits in My Inventory > My Outfits. Texture Upload Crash EXT-5422 Crash on Texture Upload - Appears only upon first login after updating from one SL version to another. Object Inspect EXT-4013 Functionality loss: Inspect object (aka see a list of creators / timestamps for all prims in a linkset) - The ability to inspect individual prims in an object is not available in this Public Beta, but we know how very important this functionality is and will return it to Viewer 2 as soon as we can.