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Second Life 1.23 (RC3) now available

Tateru Nino
Updated ·5 min read

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC3 is the fourth release candidate in the 1.23 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). The 1.23 series is being fast-tracked, as it is scheduled to go live by the end of June.

We're expecting this one or the next one to be the last before official release -- because frankly, there's not a lot of time-left before the Lab's self-imposed deadline. Probably the biggest reason you'd want to try this one out, is that it fixes a bug introduced in an earlier official viewer where cached information was discarded too aggressively, leading to things that should have been cached having to be redownloaded.

Oh, there's a bunch of good bug-fixes besides that, but that's really the one you want. Read on for the rest.

Known Issues:
HUD Display Issue

  • VWR-13151: Improper display of HUD in RC / HUD alpha layers ordered incorrectly prior to being selected - HUDs with alpha may not display properly after relog. Right-clicking or reattaching the HUD will correct this problem. NOTE: This same issue exists in the 1.22.11 viewer.

Issues Relating to SL Window Resizing

  • Resizing the viewer window from the default size to the minimum size allowed, then restoring it to near full-screen, may cause the Toolbar to disappear off the bottom of the window - The only way to resolve this issue is to exit SL and re-log.

  • Resizing the viewer window to the minimum size allowed, then exiting SL and re-logging, may render parts of an avatar invisible.

  • Resizing the viewer window to the minimum size allowed forces floaters to viewer edges.

Running SL on a Secondary Monitor

  • Rebaking an avatar on a secondary monitor may cause parts to become invisible. Please note, however, that running Second Life on a secondary monitor is not a supported configuration.

Key Fixes:
Texture Picking Performance - 173 votes

  • Fixed: VWR-8818: 1.21 and 1.22 Texture Picker & People Chooser lags when your inventory has >18K items

Texture Caching - 46 votes

  • Fixed: VWR-11420: Objects/textures are removed from viewer memory too aggressively

Lighting - 29 votes

  • Fixed: VWR-13471: llSetPrimitiveParams for fullbright true/false sporadically works & sticks

Viewing IMs in Chat - Two JIRAs, 21 votes & 10 votes

  • Fixed: VWR-3060: Add a setting to hide the IMs in the background chat

  • Fixed: VWR-13614: Removal of IM msgs from windowed local chat a pain - Added the debug setting 'IMInChatConsole' to allow residents to resurrect the "Show IMs in Local Chat" setting

Alt+Click Camera Focus - 4 votes

  • Fixed: VWR-13010: Alt+Cam on an avatar causes the camera view to be abruptly pointed skyward

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-2262: Linux viewer's Mozilla libs interfere with spawned Firefox instances

  • Fixed: VWR-3060: Add a setting to hide the IMs in the background chat

  • Fixed: VWR-8818: 1.21 and 1.22 Texture Picker & People Chooser lags when your inventory has >18K items

  • Fixed: VWR-9475: Cursors are missing from artwork package, they have been misplaced in SDL-1.2.5-x

  • Fixed: VWR-11420: Objects/textures are removed from viewer memory too aggressively

  • Fixed: VWR-13010: Alt+Cam on an avatar causes the camera view to be abruptly pointed skyward

  • Fixed: VWR-13471: llSetPrimitiveParams for fullbright true/false sporadically works & sticks

  • Fixed: VWR-13578: Show XUI Names is broken

  • Fixed: VWR-13614: Removal of IM msgs from windowed local chat a pain

  • Fixed: 1.23 Mac crash reporter ignores "never send" preference

  • Fixed: Add debug setting to preserve old "Show IMs in Local Chat" setting

  • Fixed: Cannot type or join voice in a group if others initiate the session

  • Fixed: Menu->Advanced->Debug Settings, type "RenderGLDebug"missing on mac

  • Fixed: Moon is 2x normal size and remains just above the eastern horizon all night

  • Fixed: Notification on change of region maturity doesn't trigger if the cap is used

  • Fixed: Teen Users see main grid Showcase items in search

  • Fixed: Water reflections seen through avatar

Crash Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-13596: Viewer crashes when inspecting prim while texture surface selected

  • Fixed: Second attempt to upload an image crashes the viewer after first trying to upload a non-supported image

  • Fixed: Teleport crashes viewer when 'Info Displays/Verify' is enabled

Internationalization & Localization Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-13519: Make a Tools menu option translatable by giving a name to <on_enable>

  • Fixed: Mac viewer when set to System Default, does not change to the language of the OS for most languages

  • Added: Chinese translations for new strings in 1.23

  • Added/Fixed: CT-193: Danish translations for new strings in 1.23

  • Fixed: All French truncated words

  • Fixed: All German truncated words

  • Fixed: All Japanese truncated words

  • Fixed: All Turkish truncated words

  • Fixed: All Polish truncated words

  • Fixed: All Spanish truncated words

  • Fixed: All Portuguese truncated words

  • Fixed: Set the viewer URLs to localized pages for Spanish and Portuguese

  • Fixed: All Dutch linguistic changes and truncated words

  • Fixed: All Hungarian truncated words

  • Fixed: All Italian truncated words

  • Fixed: All Russian/Ukrainian truncated words

Source:

  • Changed: Upgrade libpng to 1.2.35 on all platforms

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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