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Second Life 1.22 (RC6) now available

tateru nino
Updated ·3 min read

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC6 is the seventh release candidate in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). RC5 was supposed to have been the last release candidate in this series, but unfortunately a number of serious issues cropped up.

There are six crash fixes, texture performance was severely degraded, and there were a number of 'raycasting' problems (raycasting maps the position of your mouse pointer to objects in the virtual environment. Problems with this process cause the system to think you're clicking somewhere other than where you actually are). Additional code is included to track driver-based crashes, and there's the usual localization fixes. Full release notes for this version are after the jump.

Changes:

  • Added: Improvements to Crash Stack Generator to trace driver crashes better

  • Added: Add extra debugging code for particle related crashes.

  • Removed: remove additional debug info for LLImageGL::setImage() crash

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-3871: Prim position appears to be off, but script show it in the right place.

  • Fixed: VWR-7331: llMapDestination can't TP to Skybox over 1000 meters, which was made possible in 1.20.6

  • (Viewer-side) Fixed: SVC-3628: Downloading a single texture takes too long

  • Fixed: VWR-11419: Textures reload perpetually

  • Fixed: Sculptie textures have too high a priority in 1.21 causing slow overall texture loading

  • Fixed: Active Speakers is sorted the wrong way by default

  • Fixed: safely reenable a forceDisconnect in LLEventPollResponder::error handler, when avatar's main region event poll is terminated

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

  • Fixed: VWR-11550: "BAD" textures on 1.22.6 Public Nightly stall texture loading

  • Fixed: VWR-11377: By muting your own Object, you can not see your own text in Local Chat/a Group IM (User's own Av is muted to themselves)

  • Fixed: VWR-11495: Full screen resolution setting changes to 800x600 at every start

    • Also Fixed: VWR-11344: Windowed to Fullscreen switch: sometimes resolution got lost

  • Fixed: VWR-11312: Microphone volume isn't saved upon relog

  • Fixed: VWR-7109: IM to email unchecks itself for no particular reason

  • Fixed: VWR-10606: 1.22 raycasting: Clicking on Script Error icon does not open Script Warning/Error window

  • Fixed: VWR-11044: 1.22 raycasting: Incorrect picking on right-click, when "Hide Selected" is enabled

  • Fixed: VWR-11341: 1.22 raycasting: Selecting a prim inside another prim is impossible

  • Fixed: VWR-11434: 1.22 raycasting: llDetectedTouchFace() reports wrong face for touch on pathcut face if hollow faces are behind in line-of-sight

  • Fixed: VWR-11429: 1.22 raycasting: When right clicking on the avatar body, the Edit pie menu opens for an attachement behind the body

    • Also Fixed: 1.22 raycasting bypasses avatar mesh when any attachment is behind the avatar

  • Fixed: Linux viewer does not automatically send crash report when viewer crashes and set to 'Always Send'

Crash Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-11433: leak/crash in particle system

  • Fixed: crash on shutdown WARNING: LLAppViewer::sendLogoutRequest: Cannot create logout marker file

  • Fixed: crash on LLEditingMotion::onUpdate

  • Fixed: crash on LLNotifyBoxView::purgeMessagesMatching

  • Fixed: crash on LLLogChat::loadHistory: Filename is Empty

  • Fixed: crash on LLPrimitive::setVolume line 973

Localization Fixes:

  • Fixed: fix a few additional typos in translations of Japanese, German, Polish

  • Fixed: fix additional truncated text in Japanese translation

Release candidate viewers access your live account on the main Second Life grid (Agni). Potentially they may cause hair-loss in pets, and should be always be kept out of reach of children. The downloads are served by Amazon's S3 service and we use and recommend the use of a download manager to keep your download times to a minimum.

Notably, while they're called release candidates, they're actually beta (and occasionally alpha) releases. The reasoning behind calling them release candidates has never been made clear.

You can download this viewer from the usual place for Windows, Mac and Linux.

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