Day: November 25, 2025

2025 week #48: SUG meeting summary

Posted on by Inara Pey
Goddess Temple, August 2025 – blog post

The following notes were taken from the Tuesday, November 25th, 2025 Simulator User Group (SUG) meeting. These notes form a summary of the items discussed, and are not intended to be a full transcript. They were taken from the video recording by Pantera, embedded at the end of this summary – my thanks to Pantera 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 is held every other Tuesday at 12:00 noon, SLT (holidays, etc., allowing), per the Second Life Public Calendar.
  • The “SUG Leviathan Hour” meetings are held on the Tuesdays which do not have a formal SUG meeting, and are chaired by Leviathan Linden. They are more brainstorming / general discussion sessions.
  • Meetings are held in text in-world, at this location.

Simulator Deployments

  • All simhosts appear to be undergoing restarts this week, with no deployments. This will be due to it being Thanksgiving in the US.
  • One final simulator release for 2025 is in the works.
    • 2025.10 is to be code-named “Jackfruit”, and will comprise crash fixes, optimisations, some internal updates and also work on “some early [WebRTC] Voice moderation features” which will not be exposed to users for the time being.
    • First panned deployment is to the BlueSteel RC channel on Wednesday, December 3rd.
  • The first simulator release for 2026 will be 2026.01 “Kiwi” – details TBA.

SLua Work

  • The SLua beta is now available on the Main grid (Agni). Official information on this is to be blogged either on Wednesday, November 26th, or early in the week after US Thanksgiving.
  • The nine beta test regions are centred on SLua Beta Void (mind the water!).
  • Harold Linden is working on the SL-specific JSON encoding so you can encode and decode vectors and keys, etc., and have them decode as actual keys.
    • This work is implemented within the SLua repository, but has yet to be deployed.
  • The question was asked on when it will be possible to get require from script assets. Rider Linden noted that LL likely doesn’t have plans on the drawing board to include directly from a script asset in inventory, although it could be done with the JSONRPC (plugin makes the request, viewer finds the script, plugin includes it in the pre-processed code) – however, you’d have to have full rights to the script you are including.
  • Official VScode plugin notes:
    • It is not yet available on the VScode marketplace.
    • Issues and PRs for code submissions can be made here, and the plugin downloaded.
  • A general discussion on possible SLua capabilities.

SLua Resources

WebRTC Update

  • Roxie Linden noted that there has been a WebRTC voice server update. This provides HRTF (better spatialization) as well as server crash fixes. It’s still regarded as “beta”, but the WebRTC team is looking for feedback on its usability.
  • WebRTC remains limited to selected Linden-owned regions (on the Preflight RC channel).
  • There have been discussions on expanding the number of Main grid regions supporting WebRTC, but there are no firm plans as to when this might happen.
  • There have also been some internal experiments with voice transcription (captioning).
    • The above led to general requests about text-to-speech and how it “should” work. Roxie made it clear that while the capability has been discussed, no work has thus far been scheduled for it.

In Brief

  • Rider Linden was on call for the past week, so his attention has been split. He has fixed an issue with one of the mail in scripts and keeping on top of the Pull Requests into the VSCode plugin and monitoring the SLua regions on Agni.
  • Leviathan Linden has been carrying out Voice related work, but is now “almost done” with that. He is currently focusing back on simulator crash and performance issues.
  • Monty Linden has been working on an SL Mobile project and will be working on some simulator fixes over the holiday period.
    • He also hopes to find time to write-up all he knows about TP/RC failures and the systems that contribute to them. This is work that will be looked at in the New Year.
  • A general discussion on the use of Discord, including as and official channel for Second Life communications, the pros and cons with the platform, its generally popularity and the requirements for joining various Discord channels (including the SL official).
  • A discussion on SL supporting various chat tools.

Date of Next Meetings

  • Leviathan Linden: Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025.
  • Formal SUG meeting: Tuesday, December 9th, 2025.

† 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.