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Second Life 1.23 (RC1) now available

Tateru Nino
Updated ·5 min read

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC1 is the second release candidate in the 1.23 series (Linden Lab starts counting from RC0). The 1.23 series is being fast-tracked, as it is scheduled to go live by the end of June.

The last RC's propensity to false-trigger at least one anti-virus program has been sorted out, along with several fixed to appearance updates (though if you try a strip-tease, you'll likely crash the viewer), along with a bunch of bug-fixes that include some crashes and a failure to startup.

Known Issues:

Possible Crash After Progressive Outfit Changes

  • With a fully-dressed avatar, successively right-clicking to 'Take Off' worn items in Inventory may result in a memory error and immediate crash of SL.

Problems Relating to RenderAnimateTrees=FALSE Default Setting

  • VWR-13003:

    • New RenderAnimateTrees=FALSE setting results in no apparent update to plant location when moved using the Editor. The in-world position is changed, but the new location is not reflected in the viewer.

    • Toggling the RenderAnimateTrees Debug setting between TRUE and 'Reset to default' first removes all Linden plants from view, then crashes the viewer when panning camera.

Issues Relating to SL Window Resizing

  • Reducing the viewer window height, then restoring it, may leave camera settings in an unusual state. The shorter the window, the more pronounced the effect. Hitting 'esc' will not restore the view. The only way to resolve this issue is to exit SL and login again.

  • Resizing the viewer window from the default size to the smallest size allowed, then restoring it to near full-screen, may cause the Toolbar to disappear off the bottom of the window. The only way to resolve this issue is to exit SL and login again.

  • Resizing the viewer window to a very small size, then exiting SL and logging in again, may render parts of an avatar invisible

  • After resizing the viewer window to a very small size, exiting SL and logging in again, selecting the Advanced menu may result in a crash

Problems Running on a Secondary Monitor

  • Rebaking an avatar on a secondary monitor may cause parts to become invisible. Please note, however, that running Second Life on a secondary monitor is not a supported configuration.

Changes:

  • Changed: Minor rephrasing and line spacing for readability in AO dialogs

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed: MISC-2723: Remove invisi-megaprim bug from being used to completely hide your avatar

  • Fixed: VWR-11844: Convert MiniMap to XUI

  • Fixed: VWR-12906: Changing outfits makes entire body, arms, hands of avatar disappear, makes face rezzing screwy

  • Fixed: VWR-12925: Timestamp on group notices is 01 Jan 1970 (7 votes)

  • Fixed: VWR-12934: Other avatars who change outfits can become clouds to those using 1.23 Public Nightly (11 votes)

  • Fixed: VWR-12941: 1.23 Public Nightly: Beacons floater keyboard shortcut no longer works (1 vote)

  • Fixed: VWR-13002: Antivir virus scanner detects Malware in 1.23.0.118378 Updater.exe (3 votes)

  • Fixed: VWR-13051: Alpha channels not working properly on hair and eyelashes (eyelashes clogged/clumpy)

    • Also Fixes: VWR-6784: Whether using Second Life 1.20 or open sourced, avatar's eyelashes appear clotted. Alpha aspects not working; skin types/body shapes/ make no difference

  • Fixed: Avatar hair turns white for a few seconds on login

  • Fixed: "The string AutoUnmuteByIM is missing from stings.xml" when IM chat with or giving inventory to a mute resident

  • Fixed: Setting Bulk Permissions tool needs a Help button

  • Fixed: Estate Covenant context help button is in a misleading location

  • Fixed: WarnConfirmQuit is not saved in settings.xml

  • Fixed: Cardinal direction strings cannot display international characters from panel_mini_map.xml

  • Fixed: Limit number of prims (and thus size) of coalesced objects due to Take, Take Copy, Delete, etc.

  • Fixed: Returning and deleting a coalesced object over the prim limit doesn't fully fail

  • Fixed: 'expired_region_handoff' not found in notifications.xml

  • Fixed: Need to make Classifieds maturity dropdown always enabled

  • Fixed: Last Modified Date for covenants is wrong

  • Fixed: llLoadURL dialog box "Go to page" button is missing spaces

Partial Fixes:

  • Partially Fixed: VWR-12904: Viewer 1.23 won't launch (0 votes)

Crash Fixes:

  • Fixed: VWR-12161: 1.23 crash on login: avatar_skeleton.xml cannot be parsed

Internationalization & Localization Fixes:

  • Added: CT-324: Viewer localization: Spanish translations for new strings

  • Added: CT-138: Viewer localization: Polish translations for new strings

  • Added: CT-322: Viewer localization: Russian translations for new strings

  • Added: CT-325: Viewer localization: Ukrainian translations for new strings

  • Added: Viewer localization: German translations for new strings

  • Added: Viewer localization: French translations for new strings

  • Added: Viewer localization: Japanese translations for new strings

  • Fixed: Lock icon and Talk button overlap in Ukrainian and Russian translation

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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