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Second Life Viewer 2 Beta - Advanced Info
Because this is a Beta release, it has some known issues that we want to be sure you're aware of, so please be sure to check out the Known Issues.
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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.
- Menus have been rearranged to group like functionality
- 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
- 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
- The UI has a sleaker, more polished look
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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