Updates from the week through to Sunday, September 28th, 2025
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.
- Outside of the Official viewer, and as a rule, alpha / beta / nightly or release candidate viewer builds are not included; although on occasions, exceptions might be made.
Official LL Viewers
- Default viewer 2025.06 7.2.1.17108480561 – August 29 – No change.
- Second Life Beta viewer 2025.07 7.2.2.17774206511 – Apple Silicon Support – September 26 – NEW.
- This viewer now ships as a “Universal Binary” that contains both the Intel and Apple Silicon versions of the viewer. It should give performance gains on the Apple Silicon version in particular.
- Also includes various WebRTC improvements and bug and crash fixes.
- Known issues:
- This version does not support convex decomposition for physics meshes with Apple Silicon. This will be hopefully be corrected in a future update or release, possibly with the help of a code contribution.
- Navigation buttons in the in-viewer browser are no longer present for marketplace and search – these will be restored in a future update.
- Apple Silicon does not support pathfinding tools.
- Subtle rendering differences might be noticed on certain configurations and EEP environments.
- Second Life Project Lua Editor Alpha (Aditi only), version 7.1.12.14888088240, May 13 – No Change.
LL Viewer Resources
- SL release viewer download page – LL
- SL viewer release notes – LL
- SL Alternate Viewers page – LL
- SL available viewer index – LL
- SL Viewer updates and reviews – this blog
Third-party Viewers
V7-style
- Black Dragon for Windows – 5.4.4 September 25 – release notes.
V1-style
- No updates.
Mobile / Other Clients
- No updates.
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