Yes, that’s right, we’re on the 5th iteration of the 1.20 Release Candidate viewer! We increased the frequency of RC releases in an effort to aggressively resolve crashes and reduce the overall viewer crash rate. Steve Linden outlined these plans here in the Viewer Crash Hunters project. The good news is we’ve been able to find and fix a number of crashes, but the down side is that this has been a rather rocky road for the 1.20 Release Candidate. (It is only in these later iterations that we are approaching a view... lire la suite
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Yes, that’s right, we’re on the 5th iteration of the 1.20 Release Candidate viewer! We increased the frequency of RC releases in an effort to aggressively resolve crashes and reduce the overall viewer crash rate. Steve Linden outlined these plans here in the Viewer Crash Hunters project. The good news is we’ve been able to find and fix a number of crashes, but the down side is that this has been a rather rocky road for the 1.20 Release Candidate. (It is only in these later iterations that we are approaching a viewer ready to be the real “candidate.”) We will work on refining the release process and do better to keep you all informed about where we are and where we’re headed. We really value your feedback and appreciate your time finding and reporting issues back to us. Please remember that Release Candidate viewers contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features and can be installed side by side with the primary viewer. Please try the RC viewers only if you want to participate in the bug reporting process and identify issues before they become the default viewer. Second Life 1.20 RC5 fixes even more crashes and includes some other really important fixes (read: no more black water!) Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.20 (RC5) Release Candidate viewer. * Fixed: VWR-6343: 1.20 causes fatal driver instability with some nVidia drivers * Fixed: 1.20 consistently crashing with ctrl-alt-T in ReleaseNoOpt * Fixed: Added new translation strings for German, Korean, Japanese * Fixed: put cleanly-formed Portuguese files (Beta) back into the viewer * There are known truncation issues in German, Korean and Japanese strings, which should be fixed in the Final Candidate Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.20 Release Candidate“.
20 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC1Available” I’m still getting regular freezes with ALL the current SL clients - the Release Version is the least freeze-y but version 1.19 of the Release Client was by far the worst yet. You get a freeze for about 10-20secs every few minutes, nothing moves, keyboard keys stick-pressed Also, does this mean there will be a new Windlight tomorrow? Putting “Release keys” where “IM received” used to be is a really bad design choice. People who actually use the viewer will be annoyed looking at who has send them a new IM, just to find useless “Release keys” there. Time for a new CTO, obviously. These guys release one big buggy piece of software after another within days instead of working on the details until they WORK. Calm down, LL guys!! Alternative: Restrict this to the beta grid again. Too many ppl go for these clients which are far away from acceptable status and get utterly disappointed (including myself). And only release them for the main grid when all the most horrible bugs are killed. New CTO or no new CTO, this RC is way less buggy since it has a lot of bug fixed. I know I’ve been trying them. And it’s nice to be able to test and discover bugs without having to go to a beta grid. I like the new communication ui changes. Please get rid of, move, hide, the Release Keys button! Why is it every time there is a new download, I can not get on for awhile after that as I keep getting a message saying DNS could not resolve host name? It seems to be a rather big problem with each new download.
3 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC2Available” There is a lot a flack given in these feedback areas after a new release candidate. But overall LL is remarkably aware and responsive to their users' issues. Almost everyone didn't like the placement of the Release Keys button in RC 1.19.0 and 1.19.1 and now its moved. There was an issue with how media streams were being turned off automatically on stream change and it's fixed. Theses are but two examples.
3 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.0 RC3Available” “Why do I have to download a new RC as soon as it is available?” The point of RC viewers is to get bug reports about the viewers before they become the default download. Therefore, we want attention focused on the latest and greatest. Once we have RC3 available, getting bug reports about RC2 just costs everyone time. If frequent updates aren’t your thing, stick with the default viewer. That text is shared with the page used for the main viewer. We’re planning on updating the splash screen logic, but have been working on more important bugs.
Hot on the heels of Second Life 1.19.0 becoming the primary download, we’re making a new Release Candidate viewer available. Second Life 1.19.1 RC0 can now be downloaded from the test software page As a reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please try the RC viewers only if you want to participate in the bug reporting process and identify issues before they become the default viewer. You can have both a Release Candidate and the primary viewer installed side by side on your computer, so if issues are encountered when testing the RC viewer you can switch back to the production viewer. This Release Candidate contains the following new features and changes: · “Glow” as new object attribute · A new cleaned-up, easy to use Graphics Preferences tab with simple and advanced options for performance/quality settings · See release notes for list of additional rendering optimizations, too! · New API for Media Rendering · Added two new click actions, one for playing movies, and one for opening media
60 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.1 RC1Available” i want this too but i dread the prospects of finding out what 20 things are broken when 1 new feature is added. Unable to navigate the new Seach All windows... Can’t log into about half the regions, crashes on TP, won’t handshake... grid wide problems or to the new client? it would be nice to keep a non-windlight viewer supported. Same issue as DXW. The only region i can log into is my home region. I can’t tp anywhere, I crash in the process. I dont believe this is specifically a windlight/release candidate viewer issue though; I’m also unable to login to other regions in the standard client, and am crashing during the teleport handshake process. Sounds more like server software. freezes SL viewer on mac at log out, need to force quit, on this new version and was the same the last version. @14 Well new features always bring problems voice came with lot of issues. And now it’s clear thw windlight is bringin much more issues, so despite @6’s irony, she is right in part... Overall FPS are still lower with atmospheric shaders on (by 10 FPS on average)...but that is not new. But here is the thing. if they highlight the Prims that cast the lights and hit EDIT... then the full value of the light’s luminance-level suddenly RETURNS to the true light-values it orginally has! And then when they close the Edit-Box... the same LOW LEVEL of face-lighting takes over again, returning the skin to that Pale, washed-out image the WL Viewer is famous for. So, the LIGHTING is there, but you can only SEE it at full-intensity when the Lighting-Prim is selected in EDIT mode. Gah... This one seems more stable. No crash for couple of hours. Havent tried snapshoting though, that was a risky thing to do in previous release. [...] collection was filmed in the 1.19.1 RC viewer and [...] 2. Particles are rendered much better than the previous WL based release (they were nearly invisible), though not nearly as good as the non-WL releases. * Crashes and viewer hangs and freezes This new release is less stable then the last one, crash reporter still isn’t working, I keep crashing every five to ten minuets. When i make a snapshot saved to my PC (ill get widescreen photo’s that way) and upload it imediatly the viewer goes poof, hard crash. First impression was good, I used the std viewer while it downloaded this morning, that ran like a bag of *r@p with hippos and waiting and all the bugs associated. In its place the new RC viewer was much smoother and my friends list worked when it loaded, things actually rezzed quicker and movement was smoother. Unlike some posts here it seems the new RC viewer suits my system better than than the std one. ...still present in linux stock viewer. Only little thing about crashlogger, sometimes work sometimes not... I’ve checked “always send” in rpeferences option but i think this isn’t a critical bug that influence viewer usability. “Only little thing about crashlogger, sometimes work sometimes not... I've checked “always send” in rpeferences option but i think this isn't a critical bug that influence viewer usability.”
52 Responses to “New Release Candidate Viewer: 1.19.1 RC4Available” # Fixed a bug causing the viewer to update the wrong parcel. Hey, do you guys notice anything that might have upped performance? I don’t know what it is, but now I am getting a good noticeable +10-20frames per second within the RC3/Windlight Candidate. I don’t think any of my options were touched and man is it great to walk around with 60+ frames. I completely agree with Spritely and Ochi. The Snapshot function is essentially DOA — aside from messing with image proportions on upload, the behavior of size constraints is very dodgy. Please make sure this is corrected before going to a wide release. I had assumed that the ability to save and restore day cycle and lighting preferences OUTSIDE the viewer would be implemented before it went to final release. It sounds like this won’t happen. How come? I downloaded RC4 last night as the RC3 told me I had to. Of course since it wasn’t an official RC release, if you downloaded it any way other than via the start page of the RC3 viewer, you just got another copy of RC3. Thanks for fixing that. hehe Anyway, I was on for four or five hours last night using RC4 with none of the viewer freezing or crashes I had with RC3. RC4 is at least as stable for me as RC2 was. At least on my Windows machine. I’ll try it on the Mac today. Do you seriously consider making v1.19.1 the “standard” viewer while it is 20 to 50% (depending on the 3D environment) slower than v1.19.0 on single core computers with equivalent graphic quality/settings (i.e. all shaders turned off in 1.19.1) ??? * Crashes and viewer hangs and freezes This may sound daft but does anyone package up the client log in and actually use the client inworld, not just on a private grid or in simulation see the hideous memory usage after 45mins, stutters, or crashes then turn around and say yup thats good enough and just send it to joe public as the next RC...... if its glaringly BAD why release it Severe viewer lock ups and freezes, unable to use RC 4 or any RC. I installed and ran this new viewer. Got a major bug in it: it won’t accept keyboard input. Just too many freezes and crashes, especially at log off. I’m not even going to attempt to dl RC4. I’ll stick to the regular viewer for the time being. I finally got the last release candidate to work for me after retrieving a previous release candidate setup exe file from my recycling bin. From a clean start (no active SL files), downloading 3 NEVER worked enough to let me log in. And... will we ever get to the day you release source code at the same time as the compiled version? So when did these viewer updates become mandatory again? I now can’t login without updating, even though I’m very happy with the version I just got to work on my drivers I had to hack in the first place. Thanks for screwing up my user experience YET AGAIN LL. I hope one day something very bad happens as a result of this that screws you all as bad as it is me. Guess I get to go re-code my driver to work with this new pile of crap you call release software. Hell, still works better than the real version anyway. How about being unable to use any ATI graphic card drivers for integrated Motherboard/graphics cards from 7.12 to latest 8.3 which work fine with the release candidate (with shiny lcouds water etc which is really nice) for about erm 3 mins before the frame rate goes from say an avarage 10-15 >>>>>>> to >>>>> 0.5!!!!!! (FPS Client Side) and stays there for me anyway. So i’m stuck using 7.11 ATI drivers and the main viewer which is really much slower for me like 50% slower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gimme a break and yeah i am entitled to whine cause i spent a lot of time and money here and it really sucks to have viewer crash like that when it could be so good if they could just fix this bug for me. This new version is pretty good, haven’t had many problems yet, except; it seems to reset scripts. My steam, smoke and some white items come out pink,lol. I noticed with the new graphic settings that you can’t see as far on 128 draw as you could with the older versions, things come into view as you get closer to them. I have been on the new RC since only yesterday, but it has to be the best I have seen yet. Cheers all! And keep up the good work - Love teh new RC!!! How about being unable to use any ATI graphic card drivers for integrated Motherboard/graphics cards from 7.12 to latest 8.3 which work fine with the release candidate (with shiny lcouds water etc which is really nice) for about erm 3 mins before the frame rate goes from say an avarage 10-15 >>>>>>> to >>>>> 0.5!!!!!! (FPS Client Side) and stays there for me anyway. So i'm stuck using 7.11 ATI drivers and the main viewer which is really much slower for me like 50% slower!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gimme a break and yeah i am entitled to whine cause i spent a lot of time and money here and it really sucks to have viewer crash like that when it could be so good if they could just fix this bug for me.”
There is a new Release Candidate available, and a shiny new format for our Downloads page to get it! A new Second Life 1.20 (RC6) Release Candidate viewer is now available for download from the Test Viewers page (this is the bottom section of the page, not the primary installer in orange at the top of page). Reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional viewers that contain the latest round of bug fixes in the upcoming next version of the Second Life viewer. If you have been using the 1.20 (RC5), you will be required to update that installation to this latest version (RC6). But the Release Candidate is always an optional version that you may choose not to use — or better- to have installed side by side on your computer with the main viewer offered on our Downloads page or http://get.secondlife.com. In 1.20 (RC6) Release Candidate, we have isolated and resolved the SmartHeap library error message that occurs on exiting Second Life. We’ve also patched the problem of property lines showing through avatars, objects and the ground. Here are the latest notes: * Fixed: 3dConnexion device does not default to enabled with 1.20 RC 5 * Fixed: XML resizing to repair truncated text in 1.20 localizations * As the first release of improved Joystick and 3D input device support, there are minor known issues with camera behavior and/or button-mapping behavior when using the 3dxconnexion SpaceNavigator in a combination of “Flycam” and Build modes. * IMPORTANT NOTE: There is a known issue in the 1.20 Release Candidate on Macs using Apple’s USB Mighty Mouse and a 3dxconnexion SpaceNavigator. The Mighty Mouse will be erroneously detected as a joystick where the primary mouse button will toggle “Flycam” with unusual behavior. Therefore the support for the 3dxconnexion SpaceNavigator in Second Life does not yet extend to Macs using a USB Mighty Mouse. We expect this to be the final Release Candidate in the 1.20 viewer series, barring any Showstoppers that you may find. Please of course continue to report any new issues large or small in the Issue Tracker, and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.20 Release Candidate”. Thanks to all of you who participate in the RC cycle — posting reproducible steps and system environments, responding to questions, and clarifying and linking — your help to improve the Second Life viewer is greatly appreciated!
Today's Release Candidate Viewer (1.19.0 RC0) contains a ton of bug fixes and re-introduces some functionality that was previewed in our 1.18.6 RC viewer series. As mentioned in our final 1.18.6 RC post, we reverted back to the same XUI-based login code used in Second Life Viewer Release 1.18.5.3. This release also addresses the QuickTime security issue identified back in December (which were originally slated for the 1.18.6 viewer as well) and updates the required version of QuickTime to 7.4. Don’t forget that Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.19.0 (RC0) Release Candidate viewer. Source code will be available for download shortly, too. Preliminary release notes follow... Here are the new features and changes since 1.18.5.3: · SVC-1125: New Search: Beacons aren’t shown when teleporting to regions with “Allow Direct Teleport” disabled · VWR-2614: gActiveChannelSpeakerMgr not deleted at end of program in viewer.cpp · VWR-2652: Changes needed to compile viewer against lastest libopenjpeg2000 · VWR-3428: Checking a users profile while editing a linked set causes viewer crash · VWR-3948: Underlayers no longer removable by pie menu in Windlight, release candidates · New gestures do not appear active in inventory · Make SL viewer updater show a progress bar so that people know how long to wait · Enhance Viewer to support new Age Verification feature · Viewer crashes in assert when playing Sword Strike animation · Move fullscreen message from login screen to viewer prefs · linux client doesn’t recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout) · Repoint Report Bug... Viewer link to Pjira Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.19.0 Release Candidate“. Your participation is welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PST time) inworld bug triages, too! Also, don’t be afraid to point out issues with these preliminary release notes themselves - with this number of fixes listed, it’s likely we’ll have made a mistake somewhere. Some of the issues reported “fixed” may also have only been problematic in the 1.18.6 viewer (which was never a production viewer). Let us know and we’ll clean ‘em up.
A new 1.19.1 Release Candidate Viewer (RC2) is now available with fixes based on issues reported in RC0 and RC1. As a reminder: Release Candidate viewers are optional updates that contain the latest round of bug fixes and/or soon-to-be-released new features. Please visit the test software page to download the Second Life 1.19.1 (RC2) Release Candidate viewer only if you’re interested in helping us test these optional viewers. Source code will be available for download soon. · VWR-4963: Group archive freezes viewer Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to “1.19.1 Release Candidate“. Resident participation is always welcome at our weekly (Wednesdays @ 3pm PST time) inworld bug triages, too!