Release Notes/Snowglobe Release/1.0

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Release notes for Snowglobe version 1.0. Snowglobe is a Second Life-compatible viewer, built jointly by the open source community and Linden Lab. As Philip Linden described when he first announced the project back in March, we set out to create "a widely-used, openly developed version of the Second Life client which is a compelling alternative for a broad set of users, and contains enhancements and development that then rapidly make their way back into the mainstream Second Life version."

New in Snowglobe 1.0   Below is a list of features new to Snowglobe 1.0, relative to the Second Life viewer version 1.23 Faster in-viewer map using the Amazon S3 repository tiles. See Torley's demonstration of the new feature A new, general-purpose texture fetching and caching mechanism (see HTTP Texture), currently used most with the map (with more widespread use in future versions) Minimap changes (from Aimee Trescothick) VWR-12748 - Increase MiniMap zoom range, and magnify avatar markers at higher zoom levels VWR-12696 - Fixed bug with minimap object overlay being blurred, or only rendered within a restricted area after resizing the floater Turned on voice/lip sync by default: VWR-10311 and VWR-13260 (from Mm Alder) Allow XUI to specificy tooltips for combo box list entries: VWR-13177 Combo to preview textures at common aspect ratios: VWR-8008 (from Aimee Trescothick) 64-bit Linux fixes: VWR-12763 (from Robin Cornelius) For developers: VWR-12758 - Easier build system. We've rolled out some work we've done with Kitware, makers of the popular CMake build configuration tool, which makes it much easier to compile your own build of the Snowglobe viewer. See Get source and compile for more information.

Known Issues   SNOW-2 - Snowglobe sometimes crashes fetching textures (problem in libcurl) SNOW-48 - Large textures sometimes appear fuzzy and not fully loaded SNOW-18 - On main login screen, when updates are available, the update and release notes are un-clickable SNOW-14 - Entering fullscreen sometimes makes rendering very dark/black. Relog corrects problem. SNOW-22 - False warnings for some platforms not meeting minimum spec SNOW-60 - Launching secondlife: urls (e.g. from http://slurl.com ) from a browser to a running Snowglobe instance fails on Mac See the following for more: Full list of postponed issues in Snowglobe Release notes for the Second Life viewer version 1.23 - any known issues that apply to the Second Life Viewer version 1.23 will probably also apply to Snowglobe 1.0