2020 Simulator User Group week #20 summary

The following notes were taken at the Simulator User Group meeting held on Tuesday, May 12th. Not a lot was discussed (again), so just a short update on server deployments / official viewer updates.

Simulator Deployments

Please refer to the simulator deployment thread for updates.

• On Tuesday, May 12th, the majority of the grid was updated to server maintenance release 541440, comprising:
  • Updates to fix issues with the Name Change feature still calling avatars by their “old” names for up to a week (see BUG-228565).
  • Internal logging changes and improvements to how the simulator accesses internal servers.
  • A a fix to llBase64ToInteger, the colour space LSL functions.
  • This update could exacerbate issues with group notice time stamps failing to accurately report, which has been an issue on at least one RC channel (see: BUG-228562 Group Notice Timestamps don’t report accurately Server Channel 540369/ now 541440).
• Updates are planned for the three RC channels, but at the time of writing, had yet to be announced. Commenting on the updates at the meeting, Rider Linden stated:

LeTigre and Magnum are getting competing fixes for the experience purchase problem [see Bug-228676]. BlueSteel, Snack and Preflight [two small-scale RC channels] are all getting an update that just internal fixes and extra logging.

Please refer to the deployment thread for further information / updates.

SL Viewer

On Monday, May 11th:

• The Camera Presets RC viewer updated to version 6.4.2.541639.
• The Love Me Render RC viewer updated to version 6.4.2.541651.
• A new FMOD Studio update RC viewer, version 6.4.2.541570, was issued.

The remaining official viewer pipelines are currently unchanged from the end of week #18:

• Release channel cohorts:
  • CEF Special RC viewer, version 6.4.1.541204, dated April 30th.
• Project viewers:
  • Copy / Paste viewer, version 6.3.5.533365, December 9, 2019.
  • Project Muscadine (Animesh follow-on) project viewer, version 6.4.0.532999, November 22, 2019.
  • Legacy Profiles viewer, version 6.3.2.530836, September 17, 2019. Covers the re-integration of Viewer Profiles.
  • 360 Snapshot project viewer, version 6.2.4.529111, July 16, 2019.