Second Life release candidate available, but not announced
Sharp-eyed Gwyneth Llewelyn has spotted that there's a new Second Life release candidate viewer available for download today, through the Amazon S3 service that Linden Lab uses for delivery.
The viewer appears to be datestamped 21 November, though it's not yet been announced or linked off the Second Life website yet, though. We're guessing that it got waved-off at the last minute (perhaps because of the holiday, perhaps because of bugs) and may possibly be replaced with a fresher version before a final announcement goes up.
We recommend the use of a download manager to grab new viewers faster - without one, you're in for a bit of a wait, but the 30-60MB (depending on your operating system) downloads don't exactly take a large chunk out of your day.
We snagged the release notes from the installation. The viewer download is available here.
Changes:
* Permissions request dialogue boxes are now throttled to prevent griefing [I can't help but wonder at the actual implementation of this]
* Additional localization work on xml files for Japanese, Korean, and German.
Bug fixes:
* Fixed various XML errors related to the search feature, Windows & Linux only
* Fixed VWR-3064: Land Search does not show Description Text for any parcel selected in Search
* Fixed VWR-3084: Dramatic drop in frame rate after the first use of the new search engine. [There's a welcome fix right there]
* Fixed VWR-3200: Classifieds Statistics in profile are broken
Release candidate viewers are like beta-viewers, only they run against your live account on the main grid (Agni) instead of on the Beta grid (Aditi). Conceivably, yes, they can eat all your stuff.
[Update: A scant six minutes after we went live with this, Linden Lab actually did announce the new release candidate]
