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Viewer 1.20RC7, Simulator 1.22 expected to see light next week
Bridie Linden has updated the development roadmap (actually, it's not a roadmap so much, as a set of directions, but bear with us) for upcoming releases. The release cycle for the 1.20 viewer is going to be longer than usual, expecting to end in June. The map is a bit tangled, with a commingling of server-side and viewer-side changes kind of munged together, but there's a new feature in the long, long list of bugfixes and bughunting tweaks: New feature: VWR-4794: Basic voice lipsync for voice visualization. Now that's going to be interesting. Viewer 1.20RC7 and Simulator 1.22 are both expected to see the light next week. Nothing much new in SLS1.22, except work to further ease load on the asset servers (if some of you are winding up at infohubs and welcome-areas instead of at home, or getting teleport routing failure messages, those are a part of this work), and code to help identify possible failure points in other systems.
Linden Lab to retry 1.19.2 upgrade this week
Last week's deployment of 1.19.2 onto the Second Life grid did not go at all well, and affected simulators had to be rolled back to the earlier 1.19.1 version. Linden Lab's Bridie Linden tells us that the issue with the new server software (exactly what was wrong was never mentioned) has been identified and fixed, and a new three-phase update will be taking place this week, starting tomorrow evening. The first batch of 500 simulators will be updated Tuesday evening from 8PM. 1,500 more simulators will be updated from 7PM Wednesday evening, assuming all goes well with the first 500. Finally at 6PM Thursday evening (again, assuming that we have no further issues resembling last week's problems) the all of the remaining simulators will be updated to 1.19.2 (with the exception of the simulators in the Havok Early Adopters Program).
Public UI bug triage meetings discontinued
Benjamin Linden, User Experience Designer for Linden Lab's Second Life said today on the SL developers list that the public user-interface triage sessions where UI bugs are assessed for severity and importance will be discontinued as of today. User Interface bugs will instead be handled during regular bug triage sessions for the main viewer and the release-candidate viewers, handled by Aric Linden and Bridie Linden. No reason for the change was given.
