Release Notes/Second Life Beta Server/1.24

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.6 (97433) (September 23rd, 2008):

Changes/Fixes:

• Added llEmail throttle as a server-side spam reduction measure
• Memory leak identified in LSLScript handling code
• Mono Domains are unloading when they should not be leading to server lag spikes
  • Partial fix
• SVC-2908: C# error messages with Mono Compiled scripts
• SVC-3080: Mono is not initializing rotations as ZERO_ROTATION
• SVC-3072: Error message using llBase64ToString under Mono
• SVC-2973: MONO - timer() event triggers before on_rez(), & state_entry()
• SVC-3030: MONO only: An IF that checks a function that doesn't return a value causes the compiler to crash.
• SVC-2347: User defined integer variable called rez will not compile in MONO.
• SVC-2403: Mono Beta: Full recompile of an object (Mass Recompile) does not report compile errors to the user

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.6 (97017) (September 18th, 2008):

Fixes:

• SVC-3030: MONO only: An IF that checks a function that doesn't return a value causes the compiler to crash.
• SVC-3080: Mono is not initializing rotations as ZERO_ROTATION

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.6 (96912) (September 17th, 2008):

Fixes:

• Fix for Mono memory management
• SVC-3072: Error message using llBase64ToString under Mono

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.6 (96673) (September 15th, 2008):

Fixes to verify:

• SVC-2973: MONO - timer() event triggers before on_rez(), & state_entry()
• SVC-2908: C# error messages with Mono Compiled scripts

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.5 (96115) (September 9th, 2008):

Fixes to verify:

• All fixes for 96087 (below), plus:
• SVC-2925: Instant Messages of certain lengths (object name + IM text) are not delivered with 1.24.1
• SVC-1571: Rezzing a coalesced objects with 1024 scripted prims fails

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.5 (96087) (September 9th, 2008):

Fixes to verify:

• SVC-2990: Listen and sensor (maybe other) events persist between states in LSL2
• SVC-2973: MONO - timer() event triggers before on_rez(), & state_entry()
• SVC-2908: C# error messages with Mono Compiled scripts
  • complete fix
• SVC-2751: Mono Beta - LSL attach() event survives reset

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.5 (September 8th, 2008):

Note: Server version: 1.24.4.95981

Fixes:

• SVC-2990: Listen and sensor (maybe other) events persist between states in LSL2
• SVC-2973: MONO - timer() event triggers before on_rez(), & state_entry()
• SVC-2908: C# error messages with Mono Compiled scripts
  • partial fix
• SVC-2751: Mono Beta - LSL attach() event survives reset

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.5 (September 5th, 2008):

Fixes:

• SVC-2908: C# error messages with Mono Compiled scripts
  • partial fix
• SVC-2751: Mono Beta - LSL attach() event survives reset

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.4 (September 2nd, 2008):

Fixes:

• SVC-2938: Second Life Server 1.24.3.95195: If llGetNextEmail(string address, string subject) is called with a value in the SUBJECT field, the call will fail as no email will be picked up by the email( ) event.
• SVC-2962: When creating a new list from a string and old list, it adds the string to the old list as well
• SVC-2927: Abandoning land changes land name and description even when done by an Estate Manager.
• SVC-2750: State changes are several times slower on MONO servers
  • Also addresses:
    • SVC-2958: state_exit() events are slow
    • SVC-2973: MONO - timer() event triggers before on_rez(), & state_entry()

Release Notes for Second Life Beta Server 1.24.3 (August 29th, 2008):

Changes:

• Mono is an alternate way to run ordinary LSL scripts. It has advantages of speed and memory management over the current script engine. For more information about Mono see the wiki article: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mono.
  • Note: Although no special viewer is needed to run Mono scripts, to create them you will need a viewer version of 1.21 or later.
  • The 1.21 Release Candidate Viewer is expected to be available the week of August 25th.

• Enabled group moderation features for voice chat.

Changes that require both 1.24 Server *and* 1.21 Viewer (not yet released):

• New LSL calls for touch "position" in the touch_start(), touch(), and touch_end() events. Each touch() event provides the current surface point data (allowing grabbing, sliders, levers, and all sorts of pseudo GUI builds!):
  • llDetectedTouchUV() - returns the UV coordinates of the point touched.
  • llDetectedTouchFace() - returns the face of the point touched.
  • llDetectedTouchPos() - returns the world coordinates of the point touched.
  • llDetectedTouchNormal() - returns the surface normal of the point touched.
  • llDetectedTouchBinormal() - returns the surface bi-normal of the point touched.
  • llDetectedTouchST() - call to query surface coordinates.

• Script performance now measured in "events per second" (eps) instead of "instructions per second" (ips)
  • 1.21 viewers will show "Script events" in the statistics window (ctrl-sht-1), but the metric will only have useful data for regions running 1.24.
  • Earlier viewers will show the legacy "Script perf" in the stat window, but its value will only be useful for regions running 1.23.
  • Once 1.24 is deployed gridwide, the only way to obtain useful script performance info will be with a 1.21 or later viewer

• New feature to return all objects on an estate
  • MISC-713: Add "Return All Objects" as an estate-wide feature for a specified resident

• New info added:
  • Add Time Stamp to Parcel Object List
  • Add Time Stamp to Top Scripts Colliders List
  • Add more categories to Help -> Report Abuse..

Fixes:

• Three security fixes