Updates for the week ending Sunday, November 12th
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 5.0.8.329115, dated September 22nd, promoted October 13th – formerly the “Moonshine” Maintenance RC – no change.
- Release channel cohorts (notes on manually installing RC viewer versions):
- Maintenance RC viewer, version 5.0.9.329795 November 8th.
- Project viewers:
- Animesh project viewer version 5.0.9.329815, dated November 9th – project overview.
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
V5-style
- Black Dragon updated 2.9.2 November 8 (release notes).
V1-style
- Cool VL viewer Stable branch updated to version 1.26.20.36 and the Experimental Branch (Animesh) updated to version 1.26.21.2, both on November 11th (change log)
Mobile / Other Clients
- No updates.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
Excellent post but dang the new autoplay ads just above the “rate this” have a multitude of sins:
They pull focus, dragging viewer down to their part of screen once loaded, usually just after I start reading.
The are very loud.
They turn on my audio even if muted.
And yes, inevitable commenters, I have all the ad blocking and such allowed in a locked down corporate PC.
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You’re the second to mention the ads … which is now niggling me, primarily because I’m not able to repro in Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer or Edge on a PC while not logged-in to WordPress (video ads do not auto for me at all). The adds are placed by WordPress, rather than by me, and I have opened a support ticket about the problem. I have suggested to the Chrome user who raised this point that they try Automute; if you’re also a Chrome user, you might try the same.
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