Category: Viewer Release Summaries

Viewer release summaries 2014: week 19

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: Sunday May 11th, 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 viewer release: update to version 3.7.7.289461 (formerly the Interest list RC – improvements to how the viewer and server work together to know what scene objects to draw) on May 6th (download page, release notes)
  • Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
  • Project viewers:
    • No Updates

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • Catznip updated to version R9 on May 9th – core updates: CHUI integration, materials processing support, initial overhaul of Preferences floater; improved camera / movement floaters; profile display updates;  bug fixes;  and more  (release notes) – review here
  • Firestorm updated to version 4.6.5.40833 on May 11th – core updates: Vivox 4.6.x; FmodEx updates & fixes; Fitted Mesh fixes; Mac Cocoa fixes; OpenSim updates; building & scripting updates; communications updates and fixes; bug fixes; and more   (release notes) – review here

V1-style

  • Cool VL viewer updated on May 10th, as follows: Stable: version 1.26.12.0; Legacy: version 1.26.8.58 – core updates: please refer to the release notes (downloads)

Mobile / Other Clients

  • Lumiya updated to version 2.6.0 on May 9th – core updates: Fitted Mesh support; Request Teleport; Support for selecting avatars in 3D by touch; significant 3D performance improvements; reduced memory footprint; improved bandwidth usage  (release notes) – review here

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Viewer release summaries 2014: week 18

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: May 4th, 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

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • Kokua updated to version 3.7.6.32861 on  April 30th – core updates: parity with LL 3.7.6 code base; option to display Received Items as a folder; hide empty system folders; Mac FodEx fix; assorted fixes and improvements (release notes)

V1-style

  • Cool VL viewer updated on May 3rd, as follows: Stable: version 1.26.10.20; Experimental: version: 1.26.11.20; Legacy: version 1.26.8.57 – core updates: please refer to the release notes (downloads)

Mobile / Other Clients

  • No updates.

Additional TPV Resources

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Viewer release summaries 2014: week 17

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: April 27th, 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
  • By its nature, this summary will always be in arrears
  • The Viewer Round-up Page is updated as soon as I’m aware of any releases / changes to viewers & clients, and should be referred to for more up-to-date information
  • The Viewer Round-up Page also 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.

Official LL Viewers

  • The current viewer updated to version 3.7.6.289164 (formerly the VoiceMO RC) on April 21st – core updates: Vivox 4.6.x libraries for improved stability & to address Mac Mavericks issues; fixes for accurately detecting Merchant status & improving Merchant Outbox error recovery. (download page, release notes)
  • Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
    • SL Share 2 RC viewer version 3.7.7.289497 released on April 25th –  core updates: abilities to upload Tweets and snapshots to Twitter and / or snapshots to Flickr (download and release notes)
    • Sunshine / AIS v3 RC updated to version 3.7.7.289441 on April 24th – core updates: stability and performance improvements for SSA (download and release notes)
    • Maintenance RC viewer updated to version 3.7.7.289405 on April 23rd – core updates: 54 MAINT fixes, including Mac updates, UI fixes, GPU table updates, crash fixes & performance improvements (download and release notes)
    • Interest List RC updated to version 3.7.7.289461 on April 23rd – core updates: improvements to how the viewer and server work together to know what scene objects to draw (download and release notes)
  • Project viewers:
    • SL Share 2 project viewer removed due to the release of RC version.

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • Black Dragon updated to version 2.3.9.7 on  April 21st – core updates: “Godray” sun ray effect (preliminary – via Tofu Buzzard); BlurLight shader (via Tofu Buzzard); other minor updates (release notes)
  • UKanDo updated to version 3.7.6.27995 on April 22nd – core updates: Preferences updates; revised camera floater; addition of Firestorm pose stand (release notes)

V1-style

  • Cool VL viewer updated on April 26th, as follows: Stable: version 1.26.10.19; Experimental: version: 1.26.11.19; Legacy: version 1.26.8.56 – core updates: please refer to the release notes (downloads; release notes)

Mobile / Other Clients

  • No updates.

Additional TPV Resources

Related Links

Viewer release summaries 2014: week 16

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: April 20th, 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
  • By its nature, this summary will always be in arrears
  • The Viewer Round-up Page is updated as soon as I’m aware of any releases / changes to viewers & clients, and should be referred to for more up-to-date information
  • The Viewer Round-up Page also 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.

Official LL Viewers

  • Current release viewer: no update
  • Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
    • VoiceMO RC viewer updated to version 3.7.6.289164 released on April 18 – core updates: combines the Voice RC viewer and the Merchant Outbox RC viewer (download and release notes)
  • Project viewers:
    • SL Share 2 project viewer updated to version 3.7.6.288806 on April 15 – core updates: Flickr / Twitter / Facebook upload support with snapshot filtering options (download and release notes)

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • CtrlAltStudio released Mac version 1.2.0.40755 on April 14th – core updates: parity with the Windows 1.2.0 release (download and release notes)

V1-style

  • No updates

Mobile / Other Clients

  • Pocket Metaverse updated to version 1.9.1 on April 18th – core updates: removal of support for iOS 6.0 and earlier (download and release notes)

Additional TPV Resources

Related Links

Viewer release summaries 2014: week 15

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: April 13th, 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
  • By its nature, this summary will always be in arrears
  • The Viewer Round-up Page is updated as soon as I’m aware of any releases / changes to viewers & clients, and should be referred to for more up-to-date information
  • The Viewer Round-up Page also 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.

Official LL Viewers

  • Release viewer: updated to version 37.5.288464 (formerly the Google Breakpad RC) April 7  (download page, release notes)
  • Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
    • Sunshine / AIS v3 RC updated to version 3.7.5.288822 on April 11 – Stability and performance improvements for SSA; Stability and performance improvements for SSA (download and release notes)
    • Interest List RC updated to version 3.7.6.288879 on April 11 – improvements to how the viewer and server work together to know what scene objects to draw (download and release notes)
    • Maintenance RC viewer version 3.7.6.288799 released on April 9 – some 54 MAINT fixes (download and release notes)
    • VoiceMO RC viewer version 3.7.6.288881 released on April 9 – combines the Voice RC viewer and the Merchant Outbox RC viewer (download and release notes)
    • Voice RC and Merchant Outbox RC removed as a result of the VoiceMO RC release
  • Project viewers:
    • No updates

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • No changes from week 13.

V1-style

  • Cool Viewer updated on April 12th to the following versions: Stable: 1.26.10.18; Experimental: 1.26.11.18; Legacy: 1.26.8.55 – core updates: ALL: backport of Firestorm feature to prevent your avatar from turning around when selecting an object; bug fixes, code clean-up; Stable & Legacy: Backported the AISv3 protocol from Experimental; Ecperimental: AIS v3 code enabled by default; new XUI-based file (and directory) selector (release notes)

Mobile / Other Clients

  • No updates.

Additional TPV Resources

Related Links

Viewer release summaries 2014: week 14

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for the week ending: April 6th, 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
  • By its nature, this summary will always be in arrears
  • The Viewer Round-up Page is updated as soon as I’m aware of any releases / changes to viewers & clients, and should be referred to for more up-to-date information
  • The Viewer Round-up Page also 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.

Official LL Viewers

  • Release viewer: should be updated in week 15
  • Release channel cohorts (See my notes on manually installing RC viewer versions if you wish to install any release candidate(s) yourself):
    • Sunshine / AIS v3 RC updated to version 3.7.5.288573 on April 2nd – Stability and performance improvements for SSA; Stability and performance improvements for SSA (download and release notes)
    • Voice viewer RC version 3.7.5.288516 updated on March 31st  – Vivox 4.6.x libraries instead of 4.5 for improved stability and to address Mavericks issues (download and release notes)
  • Project viewers:
    • SL Share 2 project viewer version 3.7.5.288424 released on April 1st – abilities to upload Tweets and snapshots to Twitter and / or snapshots to Flickr (download and release notes)

LL Viewer Resources

Third-party Viewers

V3-style

  • No changes from week 13.

V1-style

  • Cool Viewer updated on April 5th to the following versions: Stable: 1.26.10.17; Experimental: 1.26.11.17; Legacy: 1.26.8.54 – core updates: backport of LL fix for BUG-5537; backport of Singularity fix to a rounding error in animation timing interpolation; implementation of per-grid object caching to avoid region cache collisions; bug & crash fixes; code-clean-ups (release notes)

Mobile / Other Clients

  • Group Tools updated to version 2.2.28.3 on April 5th – core updates: unknown; no release notes
  • Pocket Metaverse updated to version 1.9.0 on March 31st – core updates: parity with iOS 7; bug fix to address Second Life sign-in problems (release notes)

Additional TPV Resources

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