Release Notes/Second Life Release/1.17

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.3(0) July 5, 2007

Changes:

• Added muting for permissions requests
• Added viewer channel info to Help > About Second Life...

Bug fixes:

• SVC-21: Request for making identification of llOwnerSay messages possible
• VWR-1418: Progressive memory consumption (leak) since 1.17.1
• VWR-1410: Quirk in net.cpp
• VWR-1351: Violation against the conding standard in llfloaterchat.cpp
• VWR-1203: Avatars eyes are constantly crossing in 1.17
• VWR-1184: [Linux VWR] Signal 7 (SIGBUS) Error (caused by libtcmalloc)
• VWR-1147: A patch set is provided to add an optional 'Confirm Exit' pop-up window for most user client exit methods. Prevents the 'Accidental Quit'.
• VWR-605: Include the SL date & day with the time
• VWR-561: Blurry arrows in camera control and other graphics issues
• VWR-53: Inconsistency in order of AV texture layer between the upper and lower body
• Fixed Top Scripts window not refreshing when button is pressed while Top Colliders list is still open
• Fixed odd text overlay on About Land > General tab
• Fixed format of llOwnerSay chat text

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.2(0) June 27, 2007

Bug fixes:

• VWR-1369: Creating, re-rezzing, then editing an object results in a viewer crash

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.1(0) June 22, 2007

Changes:

• VWR-650: Make "Give money" permissions look different than the other permissions
• VWR-427: Added new menu item: Tools > Edit Linked Parts
• VWR-79: PNG image support submission
• Sculpties now include a one-time explanation the first time a sculptie is created.
• Client and Server menus now have a one-time dialog box to explain what they are.
• "Skip 'Show next time' Dialogs..." button added to Preferences > Popups tab to skip all one time dialog boxes.
• Added Japanese and German language installers (Windows only)
• The version of Mozilla used in the client is updated to 1.8.0.12
• F1 help now opens an external browser to the Second Life support web site.
• F1 Help will now open an external browser to language specific support websites for Japanese, Korean and Portuguese based on client's language.
• Delay added to folder opening while dragging items in an inventory window with a vertical scroll bar.
• Default messages for postcards are replaced when adding text.
• In the Inventory window the Filter menu is consolidated into the File menu.
• The sculptie texture picker UI has changed to differentiate it from the surface texture picker.

LSL changes:

• Added support for alternate sculptie edge stitching.
• VWR-68: LSL constant expression folding and proper constant parsing

Bug fixes:

• Fixed MISC-217: Accounts with negative L$ balance can't buy L$0 freebie
• Fixed SVC-306: Objects are visible at <0,0,0> (sometimes before moving to their correct position)
• Fixed SVC-225: Searching for Classifieds with blank field results no results
• Fixed VWR-1296: Minor memory leak in lltexturecache.cpp
• Fixed VWR-1223: Camera Controls keyboard shortcuts broke
• Fixed VWR-1221: Possible crash in llfloaterland.cpp / line 1556
• Fixed VWR-1217: Built-in avatar animations stop suddenly, rather than fading out. (jerky head movement)
• Fixed VWR-1203: Avatars eyes are constantly crossing in 1.17
• Fixed VWR-1170: LLMuteList::loadFromFile() improperly parses the mute list returned from the service
• Fixed VWR-1140: About Land floater is not resizable, ban and access lists too small
• Fixed VWR-1049: Trivial sizeof() miscalculatuion results in incomplete copying of CPU Brand ID string in CProcessor::AnalyzeAMDProcessor()
• Fixed VWR-1044: Unchecking "Go Away/AFK When Idle" doesn't work when manually setting Away status
• Fixed VWR-944: Boost inclusion is inconsistent
• Fixed VWR-941: Reading length data for a four-byte Variable template message misstores the length
• Fixed VWR-938: ELFIO is technically optional, make this easy to capitalise on
• Fixed VWR-876: sculpt texture map does not load or low priority when the texture itself is not visible in viewer frame or not cached
• Fixed VWR-873: Dead members "eVertexDataMask;" in various objects
• Fixed VWR-856: llvfs.cpp: possible loss of memory blocks in LLVFS:audit()
• Fixed VWR-822: "Create new..." clothing buttons don't auto-wear items
• Fixed VWR-796: llStopSound() not working
• Fixed VWR-746: Incorrect menu item referred to when member of maximum number of groups and a group invite is received
• Fixed VWR-660: When turning off Flexible Object rendering, flexible objects become permanently invisible
• Fixed VWR-652: A harmless compiler warning in indra.l.cpp
• Fixed VWR-606: Some source files (llprocessor.cpp and llsdserialize_tut.cpp) contain non-ASCII characters
• Fixed VWR-597: Abuse report tool should autofill abuser name when reporting an object
• Fixed VWR-560: Crash in llscrolllistctl.cpp when sorting scroll list
• Fixed VWR-459: Unicode supplementary characters typed in from keybaord are not handled properly on Windows (and potentially on Linux)
• Fixed VWR-446: Automatically start renaming new user-created assets and automatically select new user-created folders
• Fixed VWR-383: Chat logs do not have timestamps
• Fixed VWR-364: Viewer memory leak
• Fixed VWR-287: Inconsistent behaviour between agent_slide_left / agent_slide_right, and the rest of the movement functions.
• Fixed VWR-251: Keystrokes are eaten by IME when no text input is possible, on Windows using Japanese
• Fixed VWR-248: Inexplicable folding of Avatars such that they are walking around with their heads up their arses
• Fixed VWR-247: Viewer generates undesired dialog when IM comes in while minimized
• Fixed VWR-227: If a Find/Search returns no results, the results list is still focused and an attempt is made to select the first result anyway.
• Fixed VWR-218: SConstruct script makes many assumptions that are invalid outside LL
• Fixed VWR-213: Calling DestroyWindow with NULL window handle (win32 version)
• Fixed VWR-207: Textures become increasingly blurry over time on systems with > ~2GB RAM
• Fixed VWR-143: Compiler errors in llwebbrowserctrl.h
• Fixed VWR-132: seg fault in lldrawpool.cpp
• Fixed VWR-119: Zero missing in Sub-unit snap grid. for small fraction like 1/16 and 1/32
• Fixed VWR-101: Get rid of "Return All"
• Fixed Inventory's "Recent Items" tab settings not persisting across logins
• Fixed line breaks showing up as * in various windows.

Release Notes for Second Life 1.17.0(12) June 13, 2007

Changes:

• Inventory transfers
  • Auto-accept inventory and auto-preview texture/notecard/landmark are now separate preferences.
  • Viewing an embedded notecard or landmark no longer adds it to your inventory.
  • Muting the sender of notecards, inventory, textures, etc., now removes all blue pop-ups in the upper right corner from that sender.
  • Offline inventory transfers and group invites now include the name of the item or group, along with group role, in the email.
• Added "Clear Browser Cache" button to web prefs.
  • This only affects the embedded browser, not any other browsers installed on your system
• Embedded Mozilla browser now supports cookies.
• Preliminary support added to the Windows installer for selecting a language (English, Korean)
• Closing a changed Classified now confirms changes

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a client crash while in startup
• Fixed group chat reopening with one message and an error after closing group chat
• Fixed "Stop All Animations" when stuck in an animation after teleporting
• Fixed group messages to allow the use of UTF8 characters
• Fixed "Show Owners" from automatically turning on again
• Fixed an issue with "Release Controls" when an object is taken and rerezed.
• Fixed an issue with texture picker not displaying any results unless inventory had been shown
• Fixed chat history to not show muted resident chat
• Fixed "Mute Resident" button, now opens the user picker
• Fixed group ability settings for group owners in German language viewer
• Fixed embedded Mozilla browser to work with HTTPS sites (affected Windows only)
• Notecards no longer display the "Keep" and "Discard" buttons when opened from inventory
• Acquired date is now set for items dragged from the contents of a container prim
• VWR-1040: crash when opening several gestures quickly
• VWR-966: Minor memory leak in llfloaterpreferences.cpp and a tiny leak in llstatup.cpp
• VWR-908: Various memory leaks in the group dialog
• VWR-871: More bad f00d: Two minor (or inconsequential) misses of initializing object members
• VWR-870: Memory violation through uninitialized variable (invisible or unrendered flexis)
• VWR-869: Possible hard-loop (endless, viewer-hang) in script editor
• VWR-827: Toruses are borked after making/editing sculpted prims
• VWR-823: Two unintialized variables in lltexturefetch.cpp
• VWR-822: "Create new..." clothing buttons don't auto-wear items
• VWR-810: Destructor forgets to delete mFloaterContros member in llui/llview.cpp
• VWR-809: Destructor fails to clean up global menus in llviewermenu.cpp
• VWR-808: Incorrect cleanup in message.cpp
• VWR-807: Forgets to delete gToolInspect in lltoolmgr.cpp
• VWR-804: Quirk in llviewerwindow.cpp
• VWR-805: LLCurl not properly cleaned up
• VWR-765: Cannot open embedded notecards in other notecards when Automatic preview of new notecards/textures/landmarks is off
• VWR-409: New Feature -> UI -> Dialog -> Buy Copy/Contents -> Default Action -> Cancel
• VWR-682: Text Editors should try to preserve X cursor position
• VWR-671: Line editor history for recalling previously typed lines
• VWR-648: Texture picker should highlight the texture in the swatch
• VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can't edit.
• VWR-364: Viewer memory leak