Server Deployments – Week 30
As always, please refer to the server deployment thread in the forums for the latest information and updates.
Main (SLS) Channel
On Tuesday July 22nd, the Main channel was updated with the infrastructure project deployed to the Magnum RC in week 29, and which adds support for the upcoming changes to the Skill Gaming policy, and includes the update to improve L$ transaction logging for payments made by scripted objects previously on LeTigre and BlueSteel- release notes.
Release Candidate Channels
On Thursday July 24th, all three RC channel should be updated with the infrastructure support for the upcoming changes to the Skill Gaming policy, and includes the L$ transaction logging update and Temp attachment fix previously deployed to LeTigre and BlueSteel.
SL Viewer
On Tuesday July 22nd, the de facto release viewer was updated to version 3.7.12.291824, previously the Maintenance RC release candidate. This viewer includes over 40 MAINT fixes, including:
- MAINT-3135 Cocoa Viewer: Mac: Maximizing the viewer leaves garbage on the screen
- MAINT-3171 Alt-clicking while moving mouse can move the camera significantly
- MAINT-2980 Reevaluate the 512 meg texture cap
- MAINT-4216 Double clicking on anything in COF removes it from your avatar – including skin, shape, hairbase and eyes – results in bakefailed avatar
- MAINT-4001 Received Folder is movable within Recent Tab – see my notes here on this issue
- MAINT-3610 SL viewer partly ‘eats’ chat-message.
Tuesday July 22nd also saw two other viwer updates:
- Tthe Group Ban RC viewer updated to version 3.7.13.292225. This allows group owners and those assigned to a specific role to ban (and eject) others from joining the group. Useful for dealing with spammers and other trouble-makers in open enrollment groups. For an overview of the group ban viewer, please refer to my preview notes
- The Oculus Rift project viewer also updated to version 3.7.12.292141, to bring it up to parity with the release viewer 3.7.12 code base. Note at the time of writing, there were no supporting release notes for this update – please refer to the Alternate Viewers wiki page for the downloads.
Group Chat
Simon Linden is planning on a further group chat test at the Server Beta User Group meeting on Thursday July 24th. Commenting on this at the Simulator UG meeting on Tuesday July 22nd, he said, “those have been really helpful with our development. The more people who can come, the better. The test is usually at the end, a little before 4:00 if we don’t run out of other topics.”
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