Updates for the week ending Sunday, August 12th
This summary is generally published on 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.
- Note that test viewers, preview / beta viewers / nightly builds are not recorded in these summaries.
Official LL Viewers
- Current Release version 5.1.7.517973, dated July 30th, promoted August 3rd. Formerly the Quinquina Maintenance RC viewer.
- Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
- BugSplat RC viewer, version 5.1.8.518305, August 7. This viewer is functionally identical to the current release viewer, but uses BugSplat for crash reporting, rather than the Lab’s own Breakpad based crash reporting tools.
- Second Life Voice RC viewer, version 5.1.8.518310, August 7.
- Project viewers:
- EAM project viewer, version 5.2.0.518362, August 9 – improved region access control tools; see my overview for more.
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
- Kokua 64-bit updated to version 5.1.7.43692 (RLV and 5.1.7.43693 (No RLV) on August 11th – release notes.
V1-style
- Cool VL viewer updated to version 1.26.22.15 on August 11th – release notes.
Mobile / Other Clients
- MetaChat – Apple has (hopefully temporarily) removed the app from the iStore as part of a purge of “gambling” applications – read the MetaChat blog post for more. D/loaded + installed version s still work.
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