Updates for the week ending Sunday,August 7th
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 Current Viewer Releases 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 adhering to the TPV Policy. This page 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
- By its nature, this summary presented here will always be in arrears, please refer to the Current Viewer Release Page for more up-to-date information.
Official LL Viewers
- Current Release version: 4.0.6.315555 (dated May 23), promoted July 5th – formerly the Inventory Message RC viewer download page, release notes
- Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
- Visual Outfit Browser viewer updated to version 4.0.7.318263, on August 1 – ability to preview images of outfits in the Appearance floater (download and release notes)
- Project viewers:
- No updates.
LL Viewer Resources
- SL Alternate Viewers wiki page – LL
- Viewer Source Repositories wiki page – LL
- Test Builds wiki page – LL
- Supported Viewers wiki page – LL
- Starlight alternative viewer skins page (not officially supported by LL)
- Viewer release process overview – this blog
- SL Viewer updates and reviews in this blog
Third-party Viewers
V4-style
- No updates.
V1-style
- Cool VL viewer Stable branch updated to version 1.26.18.18 and the Experimental branch updated to version 1.26.19.20, both on August 6th (release notes)
Mobile / Other Clients
- Group Tools updated to version 2.2.39.0 on august 7th – no change log provided (download)
Additional TPV Resources
Related Links
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With the vanishing Havok support in Firestorm, and the advice to use the LL Viewer if I need to upload Mesh, I am looking with horror at the standard LL colour scheme. I recall there was some sort of add-on for the LL Viewer which gave a choice, but I am not at all sure of the magic search term that would let me find it.
The colour scheme problem has been there since Viewer 2 came out, and LL have done sod all for their customers with imperfect vision, even though the existence of this add-on shows that alternative colour schemes are possible. I am apparently stuck with having to use their viewer until a 64-bit LL Viewer is released with Havok support,
Please provide a link to that colour scheme changer for the LL Viewer in your regular summary, Otherwise, it is not impossible that I shall resort to litotes to express my opinion of the people involved, rather than resort to their superb office management software to submit my apparently ignorable bug reports.
(Yes, I know all the tricks, but excuse me while I deal with that hedgehog…)
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