Release Notes/Second Life Release/2.6.9

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Release Notes for SL Viewer v2.6.9 (231165) - Second Life Release

Released May 31, 2011

STORM-973 [crashhunters] Crash at LLViewerTextureList::removeImageFromList(LLViewerFetchedTexture *) [secondlife-bin llviewertexturelist.cpp]

EXP-809 Make Script Warning/Error window scrolling behavior match that of Chat history
STORM-477 Re-implement LLDir::getNextFileInDir() as an iterator object
STORM-1191 [VWR-24197] XUI attributes for path limit constraints inconsistent with actual constraints
STORM-1209 Object continue sending messages after user adding this object to block list
STORM-1260 Today's tip viewer-development build crashes on launch on Windows XP
VWR-25716 View Error Message when Land is Abandoned

STORM-1236 [RESIZE TEXT BOX OR MODIFY TEXT] Snapshot: Please resize the text box or modify the text so that it fits.

DNS Error May Prevent Login for Mac OSX

EXP-772 [PUBLIC] Log in failure, keeps saying DNS cannot resolve hostname -and- EXP-687 Second Life viewer will not work on my laptop - A possible workaround is to add the free Google DNS servers to your network configuration, as described below.

Open 'System Preferences' -> 'Network' -> 'Advanced...' -> 'DNS'

Click "+" and type 8.8.8.8

Click "+" and type 8.8.4.4

Close 'System Preferences'

Restart Second Life

Crash when Deferred Rendering is Enabled

SH-1064 Crash in LLVertexBuffer::setupVertexBuffer - Reminder: In this release, Deferred Rendering is still experimental functionality and is not supported.

With this release, we support Second Life Viewer versions 2.6.9 (231165), 2.6.8 (230359), and 1.23 (1.23.5), and Second Life Beta Viewer version 2.7.0 (230551). For more information, please go to the Supported Viewers wiki page.