1.20 RC7: Unexpected issues
Three particular issues have turned up with the new Second Life 1.20(RC7) release candidate that you should know about. Two are relatively pedestrian, but the third is quite serious and appears to be an intentional feature. While the RC7 candidate has been withdrawn, those of you who are using channel gimmicks to use it anyway need to know about these.
One is the crash on login/connection (also on taking snapshots - or any other intensive activity that can take some time). Particularly for those of you that are either on slower hardware or who are further away from the Second Life servers in network terms. You'll need to disable the thread watchdog to work around this, as described here.
The second is that Lindex purchases just plain don't work. The reason for it is not at all clear at this time.
The third, and potentially the most serious is that ejecting an avatar from a parcel automatically returns all of their objects. Automatically. Even if those objects are supposed to be there. Even if the ejected avatar is a member of the group that owns the parcel.
This appears to be a submarine feature that snuck in, rather than a bug per se. It certainly doesn't appear to have been thought through. You can accidentally trash huge chunks of a build that way. Be warned.
