2023 SL SUG meetings week #38 summary + MFA enforcement

Posted on by Inara Pey
Evergreen, July 2023 – blog post †

The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, September 19th Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed and is not intended to be a full transcript. A video of the entire meeting is embedded at the end of the article for those wishing to review the meeting in full – my thanks to Pantera for recording it.

Meeting Overview

  • The Simulator User Group (also referred to by its older name of Server User Group) exists to provide an opportunity for discussion about simulator technology, bugs, and feature ideas.
  • These meetings are conducted (as a rule):
  • They are open to anyone with a concern / interest in the above topics, and form one of a series of regular / semi-regular User Group meetings conducted by Linden Lab.
  • Dates and times of all current meetings can be found on the Second Life Public Calendar, and descriptions of meetings are defined on the SL wiki.

Server Deployments

  • On Tuesday, September 19th, SLS Main channel was updated to simulator update 6113592855 (aka “Dog Days”), previously on the majority of the RC channels. This update includes:
    • The unbinding of the Experience KVP database read / write functions from land (users will still require an Experience to access the KVP database).
    • A scripted ability to set CLICK_ACTION_IGNORE, allowing an object to be clicked-through to reach an object behind it – a flag supporting this is included in the Maintenance U RC viewer promoted to Release status in week #34.
    • PRIM_CLICK_ACTION is added to llSet/GetPrimParams so you can set the click action on prims in a linkset.
  • On Wednesday, September 20th, the RC channels will be restarted without any change to the simulator version.
  • Monday, September 18th saw AWS experience issues which also affected SL. These are believed to have been rectified.

Viewer Updates

No updates to the official SL viewers at the start of the week, leaving the current list as:

  • Release viewer, version 6.6.14.581101, promoted August 23.
  • Release channel cohorts:
  • Project viewers:

Note: the alternate viewer page also lists “Win32+MacOS<10.13 – 6.6.12.579987” as an RC viewer. However, the Win 32 + pre-Mac OS 10.13 was promoted to release status on July 5th, and viewer version 6.6.12.579987 points to the Maintenance S viewer, promoted to release status on May 16th.

Viewer MFA Enforcement

As I noted in my summary of the Friday, September 1st, 2023 TPVD meeting, Linden Lab is moving to enforce MFA through the viewer for all users who have opted-in the the Multi-Factor Authentication process. 

This move has now been made, as announced in an official blog post for Tuesday, September 19th, 2023. But what does it mean? Well, essentially this:

  • All users who have opted-in the MFA will only be able to log-in to Second Life using a viewer with the necessary MFA support.
  • It does not mean all users must use the authentication process; MFA as a whole remains optional – but very advisable, given the added security it provides.
  • Should anyone who has opted-in toe MFA find they are unable to log-into SL via a viewer due to problems with the MFA process, they should file a support ticket to have their MFA status reset.

Please refer to the blog post noted above for additional information.

In Brief

This was another Solstice music event meeting, so outside of the above, nothing of consequence was discussed in terms of simulator / server updates, etc.

 

† The header images included in these summaries are not intended to represent anything discussed at the meetings; they are simply here to avoid a repeated image of a rooftop of people every week. They are taken from my list of region visits, with a link to the post for those interested.

Published by Inara Pey

Eclectic virtual world blogger with a focus on Second Life, VR, virtual environments and technology.