2019 SL User Groups week #39/1: Simulator User Group

Not a lot to report – the meeting was largely a solstice party with live music. Simon Linden did, however, use the larger-than-usual gathering to monitor animation performance, lag and streaming performance.

Server Deployments

Update, September 28th: a rollback was performed across the grid on September 27th/28th, which apparently moved all regions  back to server release 2019-09-06T22:03:53.530715, first deployed on September 10th, this was due to widespread issues being reported across the grid in relation to the script timing / performance fixes that were deployed – and which revealed a further underpinning issue. See this status update for more.

Please refer to the server deployment thread for updates.

• On Tuesday, September 24th, the SLS (Main) channel was updated with server release 2019-09-13T20:04:44.530946, comprising minor improvements to starting and stopping regions and EEP updates and fixes, and which was originally deployed to the Magnum RC channel.
• On Wednesday, September 25th, the RC channels are to be updated with two deployments (no channel details provided):
  • 2019-09-20T23:03:22.531148, comprising internal logging changes and improvements to simulator state saves intended to make deployments smoother.
  • 2019-09-24T17:23:00.531200, as per the RC deployment above, plus a fix for BUG-227645 “EEP issue: windlight no longer rendering properly”.

SL Viewer

The Ordered Shutdown viewer updated to version 6.3.2.530972 on Tuesday, September 24th, 2019

• Current Release version 6.3.1.530559, formerly the Umeshu Maintenance RC viewer, dated, September 5 – No Change.
• Release channel cohorts (please see my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
  • Vinsanto RC viewer, version 6.3.2.530962, September 17.
  • EEP RC viewer, version 6.4.0.530150, August 19.
• Project viewers:
  • Legacy Profiles viewer, version 6.3.2.530836, September 17. Covers the re-integration of Viewer Profiles.
  • Project Muscadine (Animesh follow-on) project viewer, version 6.4.0.530473, September 11.
  • 360 Snapshot project viewer, version 6.2.4.529111, July 16.
• Linux Spur viewer, version 5.0.9.329906, dated November 17, 2017 and promoted to release status 29 November 2017 – offered pending a Linux version of the Alex Ivy viewer code.
• Obsolete platform viewer, version 3.7.28.300847, May 8, 2015 – provided for users on Windows XP and OS X versions below 10.7.