Second Life 1.19.0 release candidate accidentally released into the wild
Earlier today, the upcoming Second Life 1.19.0.0 release candidate viewer was accidentally released into the wild - that is, made available for download - though it is apparently not yet ready.
Linden Lab has set a rule on the login servers that forces a downgrade from 1.19.0 to 1.18.6.4, rather than allowing the 1.19.0.0 viewer to log in. 1.19.0 contains what must be a record number of bug-fixes (as well as experimental voice support for Linux) - and the updates this week were intended to support the new code, so it is definitely very close. The mammoth list of changes is after the fold.
Here's a mostly complete list of what's supposed to be in the new version
New features and changes:
Age Verification:
Crash Reporter:
Voice:
Other changes:
Change alert message that pops up when you set Busy
Add "Teleporting from SLURL to SLURL" to the chat history to provide quick and dirty "back" links
Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
Remove "New Account..." and "Preferences" buttons from login screen for 1.19.0
Fixes:
VWR-250: Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows
VWR-289: URLs for video media streaming need to be URL-encoded or stream doesn't work
VWR-356: Move delete to the bottom of context menus, separated by spacer
VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can't edit.
SVC-750: Avatar sitting on a prim no longer able to be manipulated with llSetLinkPrimitiveParams (hasn't this one already been fixed, or is this a reversion?)
SVC-930: Prims set for sale - prices are incorrectly set when multiple prims taken to inventory and rezzed
SVC-1125: New Search: Beacons aren't shown when teleporting to regions with "Allow Direct Teleport" disabled
VWR-1125: Clicking Title Bar While Mouselook'd Repositions SL Window
VWR-1137: Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties window
VWR-1145: Unable To Connect help not available
VWR-1162: Land for sale includes L$1 parcels that are not actually for sale
VWR-1350: Color settings do not appear to be applied to LSL default text
VWR-1475: OpenJPEG always uploads single layer lossless images
VWR-1590: Keyboard changes inventory selection after right-click
VWR-1627: Classified metrics are reset to 0 when the ad is updated
VWR-1651: Add ability to open a partners profile whilst viewing an avatar's profile
VWR-1774: Some avatar positions result in no Z-axis arrow when editing attachments
VWR-1873: Typos in en-us locale file
VWR-1919: Remove texture UUID information from UI unless full-perm
VWR-2030: Avatar only turns half-way in Appearance Mode
VWR-2142: Parcel voice icon doesn't reflect disabled status if voice isn't used
VWR-2256: Mac updater directory permission issues
VWR-2367: Wrong handling of maximum length of Group Notice message
VWR-2404: lossless texture compression on small textures not lossless
VWR-2410: noise dot appear in chat window when client running long with chatting.
VWR-2411: Possible crash in pipeline.cpp
VWR-2412: Possible crash drawpoolwater
VWR-2421: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT + Second Life = "Couldn't match GPU to a class","Setting GPU Class to Class0"
VWR-2483: the macviewer.xcodeprj file doesn't create stripped binaries on Deployment or Universal
VWR-2550: Scuplty vertex coordinates are size/256 meters too small on the positive faces
VWR-2614: gActiveChannelSpeakerMgr not deleted at end of program in viewer.cpp
VWR-2617: Adds LLSD support to flex/light/sculpt params for primitives
VWR-2652: Changes needed to compile viewer against latest libopenjpeg2000
VWR-2684: Minor leak in floaters using layoutstacks
VWR-2722: Muting an object with pie menu only mutes the prim you select, not entire linkset
VWR-2847: Wrong hover text in Japanese UI
VWR-2854: Some sculpted prims render as balls on close zoom, which look fine in older clients
VWR-2867: Eyes rotate unnaturally around their X axis. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise
VWR-2959: Windows (Visual Studio) solution file refers to a non-existing project "build_all"
VWR-3088: Unchecking "Automatic Appearance Camera Movement" no longer has any effect
VWR-3206: OpenJPEG svn478 causes slviewer to crash
VWR-3428: Checking a users profile while editing a linked set causes viewer crash
VWR-3458: Mouse cursor background is opaque white instead of transparent on big endian systems
VWR-3558: llLoadURL cannot be muted
VWR-3748: Builds fail on 1.18.6 RC if not using MOZLIB due to missing #if LL_LIBXUL_ENABLED in 3 places in indra/newview/llpanellogin.cpp
VWR-3948: Underlayers no longer removable by pie menu in Windlight, release candidates
dialogs have extra vertical space
Photo Album: name in Properties cut off some Japanese characters
New gestures do not appear active in inventory
Make parcel name in menu "look" active
"Wear" pie option shows up for many objects even if resident does not own and cannot wear them.
Textures on no-transfer objects can be transferred
Deleted gestures still work
Inventory description out of sync after renaming via Properties window
Show private estate tiles when World Map is zoomed out
Properties description not updated when preview description updated
Buying object contents broken
Improve window opening behavior, ensuring it is mostly on screen
No-modify objects can be modified through Open pane
Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties
Japanese IME mode should be set and postiion of any input windows fixed for non-Japanese fields
ctrl-shift-w doesn't work if no windows have focus
Avatar falling in place - Alliez Mysterio
Linux crash reporter does not run on next execution after forcing an infinite loop and forcefully exiting
hitting enter should immediately set the value of a field
Inventory Folder Loading state not clearly indicated
Add warning dialog to the Land Sale process to warn against selling land to Anyone
Legacy flossexception link needs to be fixed in source
make link from client log in window to "Forgot Password" page
Remove button under estate managers list enables after estate manager clicks in the list
Changing search field should cancel current selection
Estate tab within Tools / Region Estate has wrong settings for enable of Restrict Access upon initialization
llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL caps output to 255 characters
XUI LoadFromXML function doesn't work
Sanitize floater sizing behavior when SL window is made very small
Animation won't stop if avatar teleports while animated
Can't paste name of object into View > Mute List > Mute object by name
pressing ctrl-F10 then Escape causes keyboard to be unresponsive
Make SL viewer updater show a progress bar so that people know how long to wait
Can't double-click on groups in profile after changing your active title
Getting multiple copies of texture dragged onto prim
blue dialog's 'next' widget steals focus
Audio should be encoded for upload at a 'good enough' quality rather than a user-selected bitrate
multiple preview windows open for a single texture/snapshot saved inside a note card
Enhance Viewer to support new Age Verification feature
Rename crash setting to cause crash logger to come up for all residents
Change crash logger "Remember this choice" function to default to on
Rework Ban tab of floater_about_land
Windows IME positioning fixed
Viewer crashes in assert when playing Sword Strike animation
Unable to set 'Group Access' for land that is also 'Public Access' (Was VWR-3667)
Disable QuickTime when the installed version is less than version with RTSP exploit
Move fullscreen message from login screen to viewer prefs
linux client doesn't recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout)
Search results window displays "s..." and "n..." instead of "searching..." and "none found"
QuickTime disabled message can not be ignored
Crash on login page when using Logitech LCD Keyboard
SEC-17 Ability to Access Sculpted Prim Textures from Database without owning actual sculpt texture, allowing for people to "steal" sculpts.
info window does not pop up when transitioning from a Havok1 to Havok4 region
Repoint Report Bug... Viewer link to Pjira
Source changes:
Upgrade Win32 libvorbis to v1.2
VWR-2881: Bundled Mesa libs are not GPL compatible
upgrade in-tree Linux GL headers to Mesa 7.x
upgrade in-tree Win32 GL headers to version without SGI Free B license
Rebuild and/or update libraries to use statically linked libs.
Remove llfloaterhtmlhelp.cpp / h and floater_html_help.xml
Whew.
And quite possibly there will be more before the release takes place. Due to the sudden move to block 1.19.0(RC0), it's quite likely that the first intentional public release will be 1.19.0(RC1) instead.