Second Life 1.23 (RC2) now available

Linden Lab have made a new Second Life viewer release-candidate available. RC2 is the third 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.

This release features six crash-fixes, problems with window-sizing, and issues with trees. Restore-to-last-position has been disabled, to prevent potential inventory-loss. There are some more pie-menu changes, but some of the changes in the previous candidates have been reverted.

Known Issues:

Experimental HUD Particles

• SVC-2396: Particles not handled properly as HUD

Because display particle systems in HUD attachments are still considered experimental, RenderHUDParticles has been set to FALSE by default. The JIRA will remain open until the known issues can be resolved.

Restore to Last Position

• VWR-13105: Restore to Last Position can lead to inventory loss when triggered by mistake

Until we can be certain that this feature functions predictably, reliably and without possibility of inventory loss, the 'Restore to Last Position' option has been removed from the inventory object right-click pop-up menu. Because the bug described in VWR-13105 has not been resolved by this change, the JIRA will remain open.

Issues Relating to SL Window Resizing

• Resizing the viewer window from the default size to the minimum 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 re-log.

• Resizing the viewer window to the minimum size allowed, then exiting SL and re-logging, may render parts of an avatar invisible.

• Resizing the viewer window to the minimum size allowed forces floaters to viewer edges.

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.

Key Fixes:

Possible Crash After Progressive Outfit Changes

• 'Fixed: 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

• Fixed: VWR-13003: New default setting of RenderAnimateTrees = FALSE makes them get lost if they're moved

Issues Relating to SL Window Resizing

• Fixed: 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 re-log.

• Fixed: After resizing the viewer window to the minimum size allowed, exiting SL and re-logging, selecting the Advanced menu may result in a crash

Changes:

• Changed: SVC-2396: Particles not handled properly as HUD

• Changed: VWR-8080: Improved attachment pie menu for prim-based avatars

• Changed: VWR-13105: Restore to Last Position can lead to inventory loss when triggered by mistake

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-534: Loading external URLs fail to use the default web browser setting with Linux

• Fixed: VWR-3060: Add a setting to hide the IMs in the main chat

• Fixed: VWR-5491: Group Members Not Enabled to Do So Can Return Group-Owned Linked Prims if Any Component is in Share With Group

Clarified the 'Share With Group' tip text in the build tool.

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

• Fixed: VWR-12908: Changing your maturity Rating via the teleport dialog causes errors when Preferences pane is open at same time

• Fixed: VWR-12925: Timestamp on group notices is 01 Jan 1970

• Fixed: VWR-13003: New default setting of RenderAnimateTrees = FALSE makes them get lost if they're moved

• Fixed: VWR-13098: Touch Text set using llSetTouchText is not displayed in the viewer

• Fixed: VWR-13253: Separate Drop and Detach pie menu options when right clicking on attachments

• Fixed: VWR-13285: Ctrl+alt+shift 5 inexplicably changed to Notifications Console

• Fixed: Notecard won't save when an item is copied from another notecard

• Fixed: Change auto-populate value in buy L$ window from 1000 to 2000

• Fixed: Cursor does not follow expected path when tabbing through Land Sales search window

• Fixed: Next-notification button (yellow ">>>") appears when it shouldn't, but doesn't appear for llLoadURL notifications

• Fixed: Default script window size is too small

• Fixed: Need to make Classifieds maturity dropdown always enabled

• Fixed: Login progress bar is not centered on the login window, and progress bar goes in reverse at one stage

• Fixed: Land Sales: Bids button does not pass auction ID to web

• Fixed: Reducing window height confuses camera controls

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

• Fixed: In Appearance Mode, mesh hair turns a darker shade

• Fixed: Resizing viewer forces local chat console to wrap incorrectly

• Fixed: Adjacent world map tiles are discontinuous at certain zoom levels

• Fixed: Buy Currency floater is unreadable when triggered by upload snapshot

• Fixed: Places search is broken for PG (teen or regular) users

Partial Fixes:

• Partially Fixed: VWR-13010: Alt+Cam on an avatar causes the camera view to be abruptly pointed skyward

Alt-click camera behavior has been corrected for standing avatars. Camera behavior with respect to sitting avatars will be addressed in RC3.

Crash Fixes:

• Fixed: VWR-12131: Viewer now crashes when File > Upload Image is open too long; (it used to just disconnect)

• Fixed: VWR-12965: Copy to inventory from notecard crashes viewer

• Fixed: Crash to desktop without creating a SecondLifeCrashReport.log

• Fixed: Heap corruption and crash after outfit changes

• Fixed: Crash on selection of Advanced menu after relog on small window

• Fixed: Force Params to Default, Edit Appearance: crashes viewer

Localization/Internationalization:

Additions and improvements to translated text, as well as fixes for truncated text, in the following languages: Chinese, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, and Turkish.

• Added: EN-US viewer localization: add 2 more missing name= elements; needed for localizations.

• Added/Fixed: CT-357: 1.23 viewer localization: German additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-344: 1.23 viewer localization: French additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-276: 1.23 viewer localization: Japanese additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-321: 1.23 viewer localization: Italian additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-138: 1.23 viewer localization: Polish additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-317: 1.23 viewer localization: Portuguese additions and truncation fixes

• Added/Fixed: CT-319: 1.23 viewer localization: Dutch additions and truncation fixes

• Fixed: llLoadURL "go to page" button text is truncated in many languages

• Fixed: Change all [bracketed references] to the Japanese ?quotes? in the UI

Source:

• Fixed: VWR-4041: Upgrade to OpenJPEG v1.3 (OS X)

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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