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

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

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Detailed Release Notes: Viewer 2 Beta 202291


Bug Fixes

  • Updated the Vivox Voice SDK to 3.1.0001.8016




Detailed Release Notes: Viewer 2 Beta 202174


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Key 1.xx 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
  • Correction: This issue was incorrectly reported as fixed in Viewer 2. We sincerely regret the error. 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


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

  • 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

  • Crash on Texture Upload - Appears only upon first login after updating from one SL version to another.