Release Notes/Second Life Public Nightly/1.22

• Review the full list of new bugs for 1.22 here in the Public Issue Tracker

Second Life Public Nightly 1.22.0.102206 Nov 12th, 2008

NOTE: The Debug GL option and Thread monitoring continue to be enabled on this build, as in .101178

Changelist in this build:

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-8920: moving the camera around, or zooming in on an avatar, some attachments 'disappear' from view. (Also when using pose balls for sitting)
• Fixed: VWR-8932: 1.21 RC - Script editor performance degrades with large scripts
• Fixed: VWR-7957: Clothing skinning error with nVidia 177.xx series drivers
• Fixed: VWR-9467: 1.21 RC will not install due to error opening file for writing (xulutil.dll etc)
• Fixed: SVC-2771: Reset Script in Selection fails
• Fixed: VWR-9850: Report Abuse popup still references Police Blotter
• Fixed: VWR-10343: "Gestures" tag is missing from the heading of the Chat Bar dropdown
• Fixed: Local Chat window fails to scroll properly
• Fixed: Rename tooltip on No Push icon to read "No Pushing"
• Fixed: Rename checkbox on About Land > Options fron "Restrict Pushing" to "No Pushing"
• Fixed: Reword some error messages relating to not enough L$
• Fixed: Fix build error due to missing msvcr80.dll
• Fixed: SL no longer detects correct amount of VRAM
• Fixed: Detected video memory is too high and causes some texture downloads to stall or load forever
• Fixed: SLURL in chat log has space before it highlighted, link launches browser and teleport dialog
• Fixed: Advanced Menu>Rendering>Object-Object Occlusion... can be greyed out but still showing an X.
• Fixed: set Graphics level to Medium for Apple 8600M graphics cards
• Fixed: Add new GPU cards for 1.22

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-3058: Second Life Crashes on Install on Korean Windows XP if they have default Korean Text as windows xp user name
• Fixed: Viewer crashes on Korean Windows XP when WINDOWS acct name is korean
• Fixed: VWR-8944: Second Life Client crashes on logout (crash on QuickTime.qts )
• Fixed: VWR-10355: Crash on clicking a hyperlink in any instance of the inworld HTML browser
• Fixed: VWR-10345: Viewer crashes in and around fullscreen
• Partial Fix: VWR-9985 Gesture editor crashes in non-EN-US languages
  • Until the code is better internationalized, translations have been reverted to English
• Fixed: crash on LLViewerObject::markDead
• Fixed: crash on LLViewerRegion::getPosAgentFromRegion
• Fixed: Interacting with tortured prim crashes Linux and XP
• Fixed: crash when trying to interact with a viewer that timed-out/disconnected from the region

Localization Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-3801: In certain languages, parcel primitive usage is broken: displays only as 0 in About Land
• Fixed: VWR-9940: Bad translation in Japanese: "shouts", "whispers"
• Fixed: VWR-9833: Translation of some viewer options in Japanese is incorrect
• Added: VWR-5733: add a Hungarian translation to the viewer
• Added: add a Danish translation to the viewer

Second Life Public Nightly 1.22.0.101178 Nov 6th, 2008

This build reports a version of 1.22.0.101178 -- because it is a prototype build of the new codebase that will become our 1.22 series. However you should be aware this is still an alpha build and NOT the finalized code ready for Release Candidate.

NOTE: The following are enabled on this Public Nightly build:

• Turned on the Advanced > Rendering > Debug GL option, to utilize additional GL debugging during the Public Nightly cycle
  • This can be disabled from the Advanced menu > Rendering at any time; or
  • It can be disabled prior to login from the \SecondLifeReleaseCandidate\app_settings\settings.xml, by changing the entry for RenderDebugGL to set its Value to 0.
• Turned on Thread monitoring (Watchdog) during the Release Candidate cycle
  • Thread monitor will detect when the application is frozen for a period greater than 20 seconds and possibly force a crash with detailed logs
  • Thread monitor can be disabled by choosing to never report crashes, or with a command line setting "--set WatchdogEnabled 0"
  • The threshold timing of the thread monitor is set in the file /app_settings/settings.xml under the key "MainloopTimeoutDefault"

New features:

• Added: VWR-3434: New feature for text chat: "Whisper" as well as Say and Shout.

Changes:

• Changed: VWR-8689: Change the location of "Mute" in the pie menu to avoid mis-clicks
• Fixed: Replaced pick rendering with raycast method, to increase performance
  • Added: new info display, Advanced > Rendering > Info Displays > Raycasting
• Changed: Replaced the View > Beacons sub-menu with its own window for more accurate control
• Removed: Remove Advanced > Compress Snapshots to Disk (no longer support .j2c now that .jpg is available for Snapshots)

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-8013: minimap causes lag when megaprims are present
• Fixed: VWR-7284: Mute of Object Doesn't Work
• Fixed: VWR-1814: Can not change the volume of looping sounds once they start (except with master volume control)
• Fixed: VWR-8310: Cannot teleport from landmark - broken LLMsgVarData::addData()
• Fixed: VWR-996: wrong visualisation of animations
• Fixed: VWR-2387: Animations always drift when uploading with an inner loop of anything except 0% - 100%
• Fixed: VWR-8398: Previewing UV map as sculpted prim before uploading doesn't work any more
• Fixed: VWR-2054: Several scripting tooltips could be improved
• Fixed: VWR-1180: Inappropriate uses of ctype (is*) functions in prevalidate methods for LLLineEditor
• Fixed: VWR-4070: OpenJPEG: LLImageJ2COJ::decodeImpl does not check if requested channel is higher than available
• Fixed: Basic DBus support for the Linux Client
• Fixed: View > Communicate should do the same action as the Communicate button
• Fixed: avatar animates when hitting escape while sitting on the ground
• Fixed: sorting of Group member list ignores the year
• Fixed: Switching focus from the SL Viewer in mouselook and returning causes loss of mouse control
• Fixed: linux client should send secondlife:// URLs to a running client if such exists
• Fixed: SecondLife.log reports a WARNING even when using the --login command correctly
• Fixed: On launch, Viewer doesn't clear keyboard input queue after becoming visible, so random keystrokes for other apps overwrite the First Name field
• Fixed: Verify that Landmark asset creation callbacks are happening with new server code

Bug Fixes to the rendering system:

• Fixed: VWR-8920: moving the camera around, or zooming in on an avatar, some attachments 'disappear' from view
• Fixed: VWR-8012: Gray shading all over clothing and avatars in world since the Windlight roll out
• Fixed: VWR-8668: appearance mode has a blue or red light
• Fixed: VWR-3272: WindLight: Some supported graphics cards have disabled shaders
• Fixed: MISC-707: /voicelevel3 gestures not triggered by voice chat.
• Fixed: VWR-8172: Camera is Unstable when editing an object
• Partial Fix: VWR-4025: Upper left corner black triangle appears on the GMA 950 chipset
  • Turned off draw pool ground on the intel 950 for Mac
• Fixed: View is not reset when teleporting in flycam mode
• Fixed: Flycam mode does not disable alt-zoom icons
• Fixed: No Stars when Atmospheric Shaders disabled
• Fixed: Email Snapshot > Recipient's Email: field erroneously accepts non-ascii characters
  • Note to testers: Test for further tweaking the validate expression if resident emails are improperly interpreted as invalid
• Fixed: When editing multiple unlinked prims, trying to move/rotate by Build tool numbers suggests that it would work on all prims, but only adjusts one.
• Fixed: Update gpu table for new graphics cards

Improvements to the Snapshot feature:

• Fixed: "Send" becomes disabled in Send Postcard when you click on More>>
• Fixed: Snapshot Save As suggests filename Snapshot.jpg.jpeg
• Fixed: BMP format displays wrong file size in Snapshot floater

Small usability Improvements:

• Fixed: VWR-3336: Friend dots on the Minimap are not a different color (yellow)
• Fixed: VWR-7802: Save texture does not use texture name for default file name
• Fixed: VWR-4981: Windlight environment settings save in a bad location
  • Now custom skies/water will save to the location Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\SecondLife\user_settings\windlight
• Changed: VWR-8689: Change the location of "Mute" in the pie menu to avoid mis-clicks
• Fixed: SVC-2396: Particles not handled properly as hud
• Fixed: LLFloaterBuy explicitly deselects objects when closed
• Fixed: Improve the apply logic of the following Preference tabs, to more correctly obey OK/Apply/Cancel:
  • Preferences > General, Input & Camera, Network, Web, Text Chat, Voice Chat, Communication
• Changed: clarify the option Preferences > General > Start location
• Changed: Replaced the View > Beacons sub-menu with its own window for more accurate control

Source changes:

• Removed: Removed dead code related to a top-level landmarks menu
• Changed: partial llrender dependency removal from mapserver (bind & clamp)

Localization changes:

• Added: Six new Languages choices in the installer application
• Fixed: Revised some terminology in French translations
• Fixed: VWR-1874: Some locales incorrectly use Kbps to mean kbps