The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, March 18th, 2025 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. They form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript, and were taken from Pantera’s video of the meeting, which is embedded at the end – my thanks to her for providing 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):
- Every Tuesday at 12:00 noon SLT.
- In text (no Voice).
- At this location.
- Meetings 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.
Simulator Deployments
- On Tuesday March 18th, the SLS Man Channel was updated with any deployment.
- One Wednesday March 19th:
- Durian Scones should be deployed to the BlueSteel RC – this update incudes the SSL certificate renewal – see below for more.
- The rest of the RC channels should be restarted without update.
Production Grid SSL Certificate Renewal
- The SSL certificate for the Second Life Production Grid is set to expire on April 16th, 2025 02:40 GMT.
- A new certificate anchored by DigiCert in being deployed, starting with the BlueSteel RC on Wednesday, March 19th.
- Testing of this certificate – particularly with accessing the grid from older viewer versions is recommended.
- In addition, the certificate can be tested on Aditi (the beta grid), on the following regions:
- Bonifacio.
- Blake Sea (Very nearly the entire set of regions).
- Cloud Sandbox 1 through 4.
- For full details on the re-certification, please read Monty Linden’s forum post and thread, or the Lab’s official summary blog post.
- The plan is to complete deployment of the new certificate ahead of the old certificate expiring.
SL Viewer Updates
- Default viewer: 7.1.12.13550888671, formerly the ForeverFPS, dated March 1, 2025, promoted March 5th – No change.
- Numerous crash and performance fixes.
- Water exclusion surfaces.
- Water improvements.
- Second Life Project Lua Editor Alpha, version 7.1.12.13858460198, March 14th, 2025 – NEW.
- Will only work on Aditi, within the following regions: [Luau Yardang], [Luau Tombolo], [Luau Mesa] and [Luau Tideland].
- Blog post: Lab officially announces Luau Alpha testing.
In Brief
Please refer to the the video for details on the following.
- A discussion on encrypting local chat – or at least moving it from UDP to HTTP2. No so much due to chat passing through the Lab’s servers, but due to concerns about external agents eavesdropping.
- A general discussion on SLua and updates, and on issues and requests.
† 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.
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