Second Life 1.22 (RC7) now available

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC7 is the eighth release candidate in the unexpectedly elongated 1.22 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). RC5 was supposed to have been the last release candidate in this series, but unfortunately a number of serious issues prompted the release of RC6, and now RC7.

Someone over at the Lab is obviously doing something right. It isn't all that long ago that the bugs that were fixed in this release-candidate either would not have been found or would have been passed over on the way to release. There aren't many of them, but particularly the crash in the texture decoder would have made some people sad.

Bug Fixes from the Public Nightly viewers:

• VWR-11645: Linux: 1.22 RC viewer fails to compile for release with gcc v4.1

Crash Fixes:

• crash on LLTextureFetchWorker::decodeImage

Localization Fixes:

• World menu > My Land > [AREA] calculations are broken in Japanese viewer

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.