This summary is published every Monday and is a list of SL viewer / client releases (official and TPV) made during the previous week. When reading it, please note:
- It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, a list of all Second Life viewers and clients that are in popular use (and of which I am aware) and which are recognised as being in adherence with the TPV Policy
- By its nature, this summary will always be in arrears
- The Viewer Round-up Page is updated as soon as I’m aware of any releases / changes to viewers & clients, and should be referred to for more up-to-date information as the week progresses
- The Viewer Round-up Page also includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.
Updates for the week ending: 14 October, 2012
- SL Viewer updates:
- Beta version rolled to 3.4.1.265642 on October 8 – core updates: stabilisation / crash fix test version with tcmalloc removed(download page; release notes)
- Development version rolled to 3.4.2.265762 on October 11
- Dolphin rolled to 3.3.22.24794 on October 11 – core updates: Autoplay button and Network statistics bars hide properly in mouselook; A new setting in Preferences->Dolphin Viewer 3->UI that allows the user to disable the avatar name in the window title
- Niran’s viewer rolled to 2.0.2107 on October 12 – core updates: fix for shadows incorrectly rendering at 140m+; fix for the scripting editor
- Cool VL updates:
- Stable branch rolled to 1.26.4.33 on October 13 – core updates:Incorporation of Group Services code; removal of tcmalloc from Linux version; improved texture memory usage throttling algorithm; private memory pools now off by default; initial backport of Media on a Prim (currently disabled pending further work); new “Media Updates” fast timer implemented; backport of latest bugfixes from viewer-development and viewer-beta; minor code changes and optimizations
- Experimental branch rolled to 1.26.5.13 also on October 13 – core updates: removal of tcmalloc from both Linux and Windows versions; otherwise as for Stable branch
- Release notes
- Mobile Grid Client updated to version 1.19.1173 – support for Android v3 (Honeycomb) and v4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)
- Group Tools release version 2.2.14.0 on October 14. No details on updates or fixes
- Libretto – removed from round-up page due to website being unavailable for a month and no response from creator on status (also removed from the SL Third-party Viewer Directory)
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