Second Life 1.22 (RC5) now available

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC5 is the sixth release in the 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). Barring any showstoppers, this appears to be the last version in the series before the release of 1.22 as the official Second Life viewer.

This edition has four more crash fixes, fixups to the wonky selection algorithms, localization fixes, and and fixes up some defective UI behavior.Full release notes for this version are after the jump.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: Fix up the crash reporter when reporting freezes.

• Fixed: Remove the Help reference to the 'Planning' Tab in the viewer

• Fixed: misleading error message with invalid email address

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

• Fixed: VWR-10460: raytrace picking can't Edit or touch items that cross the avatar mesh

• Fixed: VWR-11130: raytrace picking can't select a HUD after zooming

• Fixed: VWR-11185: HUDs will not capture mouse-clicks when rezzed inworld before attaching to HUD point

  • Also Fixed: VWR-11222: Buttons not clicking, when HUD is tight against the corner

• Fixed: VWR-10611: Parts of UI elements turn darker/transparent when minimizing

• Fixed: VWR-10712: Toggling from fullscreen to windowed mode using the key combination Alt+enter will cause the viewer to toggle back to full screen

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-10714: after downloading 1.22 RC1 (Mac) I crash every time I try to upload a sound

• Fixed: VWR-4004: intermittent crash when switching to & from Fullscreen (result of corrupt texture handling)

• Fixed: crash on LLMenuGL::jumpKeysActive()

• Fixed: crash in LLTexLayerSetBuffer::isInitialized() caused by a null pointer

Localization Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-11069: Installer displays "China" in language selection

• Fixed: Chinese localization has overlapping text in Search window

• Fixed: Fix obviously truncated text in Polish, Hungarian, Portuguese, Danish

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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