Updates for the week ending Sunday, January 6th
This summary is generally 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.
- Note that test viewers, preview / beta viewers / nightly builds are not recorded in these summaries.
Official LL Viewers
- Current Release version 6.0.1.522263, dated December 5th, promoted December 13th. Formerly the Spotykach Maintenance RC viewer – No change.
- Release channel cohorts:
- No updates.
- 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
V5/V6-style
- Black Dragon updated to version 3.3.9 on January 1st (release notes). On January 6th, this release was updated to 3.4.0 AVX and non-AVX versions.
V1-style
- Cool VL updated to version 1.26.22.28 on December 29th and then to 1.26.22.29 on January 5th – release notes.
Mobile / Other Clients
- No updates.
Inara Pey: Living in a Modemworld 
“(the latter for the most recent AMD and Intel GPUs)”
AVX/2 is CPU dependent not GPU ^^
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You know, given I was going to use the Ryzen as an example I was ware AVX is CPU focused, but the brain went sideways and I typed GPU … and then read it as CPU when checking! Now corrected, thanks!
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