Updates for the week ending: Sunday October 26th, 2014
This summary is 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
Official LL Viewers
- Current Release version 3.7.18.295539, released on October 20th (formerly the Browser Fix RC viewer – core updates: SSL 3.0 removal from internal browser due to the POODLE vulnerability (release notes)
- Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
- HTTP Pipelining RC viewer updated to version 3.7.19.295700 on October 24th – core updates: Pipelined HTTP Operations for Mesh and Texture Fetches; Inventory fetch Improvements (download and release notes)
- Benchmark viewer updated to RC with version 3.7.19.295759 on October 24th – removes reliance on the GPU table for determining the viewer’s initial graphics settings (download and release notes)
- Project viewers:
- No updates.
LL Viewer Resources
- SL Alternate Viewers wiki page – LL
- Viewer Source Repositories wiki page – LL
- Test Builds wiki page – LL
- Supported Viewers wiki page – LL
- Viewer release process overview – this blog
- SL Viewer updates and reviews on this blog
Third-party Viewers
V3-style
- No updates.
V1-style
- Cool Viewer Stable Branch updated to version 1.26.12.22 and Cool Viewer Legacy Branch updated to version 1.26.8.80, both on October 25th – core updates: please refer to the release notes.
Mobile / Other Clients
- No updates.
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