Second Life upgrades in limbo
During the week, SLS-1.24.7 was applied to the Second Life servers, containing one bug-fix and three unspecified security fixes. This ran over the usual three-stage deployment process.
On Friday, SLS-1.24.8 was applied as an emergency deployment with no advance notice, over a five hour period. Apparently there is still more work to finalize the operation of 1.24.8, but there are no published release notes or hints as to what modifications it contains, why the rushed deployment or what additional work remains to complete it.
Already, we're seeing signs of 1.24.9 being run through testing — and it wouldn't surprise us to see it start to roll out by Tuesday. Something's definitely wrong, but it is hard to say what. Judging by the predominance of security fixes in 1.24.7, the rushed deployment of 1.24.8 and the preparation of 1.24.9, we'd have to guess that it is either an exploitable (or already exploited) security problem, or a considerably embarrassing bug.
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UPDATE: Another emergency update has been pushed out onto the Second Life grid, apparently bringing the simulator software to 1.24.8(98496) 1.24.9(98659). No explanations are presently available (though one is promised) and no sign of the release notes for this or any other deployed version since 1.24.7(98039)