The following is summary of changes to SL viewers / clients (official and TPV) which have taken place in the past week. It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, which provides 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 being in adherence with the TPV Policy.

This summary is published every Monday, and by its nature will always be in arrears. Therefore, for the most up-to-date information on viewers and clients, please see my Viewer Round-up Page, which is updated as soon as I’m aware of any changes, and which includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., for Viewers and clients as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.  

Updates for the week ending: 15 July, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Beta version: rolled 3.3.4.261355, July 10
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.5.261706, July 13th
  • Pathfinding rolled to 3.3.3.261768, July 14
• Dolphin rolled to 3.3.12.24714 on July 14th, which had an issue with broken shadows and so was followed by 3.3.12.24707 on July 7th – core changes: code in SLPlugin has been changed in order to limit the number of virus warnings from anti-virus s/w; FIRE-6171/VWR-28846; ‘Save as’ dialog deadlocks on Ubuntu 12.04; FIRE-4730 – Client AO breaks attachments with animations, for example shoes with “Ankle locker”; additional Windlight settings from Firestorm; Fixed: Don’t block texture fetch threads for 2 minutes if the CURL callback fails  (release notes)
• Firestorm released version 4.1.1.28744 on July 11th, which I review here (release notes)
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to 1.44 on July 9th – core changes: use of LL’s Viewer rendering code; performance improvements; faster rendering of shadows, local lights, occlusion, etc.; integration of tone mapping from the Exodus Viewer
• Zen Viewer rolled to release 3.3.5.2 on July 9th – core update: fixed a  Merchant Outbox Network Connect Error (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer made two releases:
  • The release version rolled to 1.26.4.22 on July 13th, reported as a bux fix release fixing breaks to the texture vertical offset spinner and the land brush force slider in the build tools floater
  • An experimental build 1.26.5.0 was also released on July 13th, which is the first phase of a  backport of the viewer v3.3 renderer to the Cool VL Viewer
  • change log for both
• Singularity rolled to 1.7.0 on July 16 just prior to my viewer round-up being updated, and so makes this report; core updates – Multi-Wear release; general graphics engine update; region windlight support; RLVa partial update to 1.4; LSL editor update; sound system bug fixes & new sound system FMOD Ex; mouselook gun aiming incorporated; new build preferences; radar now indicates gesture/sound/particle/animation spam; holding Shift while crouching works as crouch toggle (release notes)

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries
• Third -party Viewer Directory – LL

The following is summary of changes to SL viewers / clients (official and TPV) which have taken place in the past week. It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, which provides 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 being in adherence with the TPV Policy.

This summary is published every Monday, and by its nature will always be in arrears. Therefore, for the most up-to-date information on viewers and clients, please see my Viewer Round-up Page, which is updated as soon as I’m aware of any changes, and which includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., for Viewers and clients as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.  

Updates for the week ending: 8 July, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.5.261334, July 8th
• Dolphin rolled through two releases 3.3.12.24704 on July 6th, which had an issue with broken shadows and so was followed by 3.3.12.24707 on July 7th – core changes (taken from the release notes for both): FIRE-913, FIRE-6551 & FIRE-6823, FIRE-6774, FIRE-6862 all incorporated from Firestorm; “Return to last in-world position” inventory option removed as the functionality has been broken server-side by LL; CTRL-SHIFT-P to activate or deactivate the “Places” window; ALT-SHIFT-P to activate or deactivate the “Picks” window; bug fix for shadows issue  (24704 release notes; 24707 release notes)
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to 1.44 a little after this summary was published on July 9th – core changes: use of LL’s Viewer rendering code; performance improvements; faster rendering of shadows, local lights, occlusion, etc.; integration of tone mapping from the Exodus Viewer
• Zen Viewer rolled to release 3.3.5.1 on July 3rd after version 3.3.5.0 was rolled-out and removed due to bugs – core updates: Updated Spell Checker with Auto-Replace and Dictionary Import; Texture Compression Checkbox Graphics/Hardware Pref. Panel; Banlines Extended to 5000m; Cleanup for Texture Picker and IM Panel (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.21 on July 8th – core changes:  New “Object Weights” floater that can be opened from the Inspect floater; Improved Build floater; Improved avatar picker; Added the pathfinding related LSL functions and constants; Added a setting to disable default pose when opening the “Appearance” floater (Preferences->”Cool features->Miscellaneous); bug fixes and code improvements  (change log)
• Lumiya rolled through release 2.1.0 on July 5th and then 2.1.1 on July 6th to fix crash issues – core updates: improved 3D view performance; OpenSim support; multiple account support; highlighting selected objects in 3D view; teleport home and close chat options added (release notes)

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries
• Third -party Viewer Directory – LL

The following is summary of changes to SL viewers / clients (official and TPV) which have taken place in the past week. It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, which provides 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 being in adherence with the TPV Policy.

This summary is published every Monday, and by its nature will always be in arrears. Therefore, for the most up-to-date information on viewers and clients, please see my Viewer Round-up Page, which is updated as soon as I’m aware of any changes, and which includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., for Viewers and clients as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.  

A relatively quiet week. I’ve attempted to add summaries of what might be regarded as “core” changes / fixes to Viewers (where possible); these aren’t in any way supposed to be exhaustive – that’s what release notes and change logs are for! Hopefully, they’ll give a flavour for what has changed within a release.

I’m curious to know how many find these summaries and the main Round-up Page useful, and whether the additional information on release changes as seen here would be more appreciated if seen in the main Round-up Page.

Updates for the week ending: 1 July, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Release version: 3.3.2.260300, June 25th (release notes)
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.4.260726, June 27th
  • Pathfinding updated to 3.3.3.260597, June 26th
• Dolphin rolled to 3.3.11.24694 on June 30th – core changes: columns in the Area Search floater now resizeable; fixes for sound issues, STORM-1890, memory leaks,  overlapping Ignore and Block buttons when a script dialogue contains less than 3 buttons  (release notes)
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to version 1.43 on June 25th – core updates: set time after which topbar will hide; new world display; zoom-in on avatars within draw range; assorted tweaks and fixes to the UI; rendering updates; re-inclusion of webkit (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.19 on June 23rd – core changes:  Separate settings for “private look at” and “private point at” (Preferences->Cool features->Miscellaneous);  re-enabled the Edit pie menu entry for objects selected on no-build parcels; assorted fixes and internal updates  (change log)
• Group Tools rolled to installer version 1.1.89 on June 28.

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries
• Third -party Viewer Directory – LL

The following is summary of changes to SL viewers / clients (official and TPV) which have taken place in the past week. It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, which provides 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 being in adherence with the TPV Policy.

This summary is published every Monday, and by its nature will always be in arrears. Therefore, for the most up-to-date information on viewers and clients, please see my Viewer Round-up Page, which is updated as soon as I’m aware of any changes, and which includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., for Viewers and clients as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.  

A relatively quiet week. I’ve attempted to add summaries of what might be regarded as “core” changes / fixes to Viewers (where possible); these aren’t in any way supposed to be exhaustive – that’s what release notes and change logs are for! Hopefully, they’ll give a flavour for what has changed within a release.

I’m curious to know how many find these summaries and the main Round-up Page useful, and whether the additional information on release changes as seen here would be more appreciated if seen in the main Round-up Page.

Updates for the week ending: 24 June, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Beta version: 3.3.3.259953, June 18 (release notes)
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.4.259223, June 9th, which adds Kity Barnett’s contributed spell check to the Preferences -> Chat (button)
• Dolphin rolled to 3.3.10.24429 on the 25th (just after this summary came out, so I’ve updated) – release notes here
• Kokua experimental rolled to 3.3.1.22989 Beta-1c on June 22nd, with a mesh uploader fix
• Restrained Love rolled to 3.8.3.3 on June 24th, which includes Kitty Barnett’s spell checker contribution to LL’s official code (available in the current LL Dev release) and numerous bug fixes (release notes)
• Zen Viewer updated to 3.3.4.2 on June 21st, core updates: additions to the Grid Manager and updates to HACD and OpenAL (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.19 on June 23rd – core changes: Implemented an import feature for Shape, Hair, Skin and Eyes in the appearance customize floater; Exposed the “Show media HUD” option in Preferences->Audio and Video; improved the texture exporting algorithm for the Object backup feature to prevent it hanging; increased the maximum size of scripts sources from 64Kb to 128Kb; numerous bix fixes  (change log)
• Libretto rolled to 0.18 on the 20th, core updates: fix to a “clothing not rezzed issue” and fixed avatars not being removed from radar when moving out of range (release notes)

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries
• Third -party Viewer Directory – LL

The following is summary of changes to SL viewers / clients (official and TPV) which have taken place in the past week. It is based on my Viewer Round-up Page, which provides 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 being in adherence with the TPV Policy.

This summary is published every Monday, and by its nature will always be in arrears. Therefore, for the most up-to-date information on viewers and clients, please see my Viewer Round-up Page, which is updated as soon as I’m aware of any changes, and which includes comprehensive links to download pages, blog notes, release notes, etc., for Viewers and clients as well as links to any / all reviews of specific viewers / clients made within this blog.  

A relatively quiet week. I’ve attempted to add summaries of what might be regarded as “core” changes / fixes to Viewers (where possible); these aren’t in any way supposed to be exhaustive – that’s what release notes and change logs are for! Hopefully, they’ll give a flavour for what has changed within a release.

I’m curious to know how many find these summaries and the main Round-up Page useful, and whether the additional information on release changes as seen here would be more appreciated if seen in the main Round-up Page.

Updates for the week ending: 17 June, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Beta version: 3.3.3.259197, June 12th – core fixes / updates: VWR-8761 Cannot delete object description; VWR-21538 SLVoice does not exit after viewer exits;  SH-2668 “ocean” water is always 20m high instead of the Region Water Height; SH-2689 worn mesh rezzing issues; improved language support (VWR-21538, VWR-23844, VWR-26542, VWR-28950; implements STORM-1819, Ternary/graded shadow support (release notes)
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.4.259223, June 9th
  • Pathfinding: 3.3.2.259040, June 11th
• Dolphin Viewer rolled to 3.3.924419 on June 14th – core changes: fixing graphics bug partially breaking UI; updates to latest LL Dev Viewer & Marine Kelley’s RLV 2.8.3.2; incorporation of  Liny Odel’s fix for SH-3153
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to 1.41 on the 11th June – UI tweaks, Windlight preset additions and tweaks, additional work on translating panels & right-click menus; bug fixes for Viewer crashing on Invalid Texture Index and RLV/a minimap issue (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.17 on June 9th – core changes: fixing render crashes due to objects rezzing badly / incompletely (& a hardening of render code); improvements to the Search floater; additional v3.3 code backports, including: latest LLCurl and increasing ban line height to 5000m; arrow keys can still move avatar with chat input floater open (but not focused)  (change log)

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries

This is a weekly summary of changes to all SL Viewers / clients of which I’m aware and which are in popular use across the grid / listed in the TPVD. Detailed links to said Viewers / clients can be found in my Viewer Round-up Page. The links supplied in this summary are either to change logs or to reviews within this blog.

An interesting week which saw the Libretto text client updated for the first time in a year with the roll-out of version 0.17. Dolphin issued a new version, but graphics issues have meant that downloads have been rolled back to last week’s release until fixed. LL’s Pathfinding Project Viewer received an update as the roll-out of pathfinding draws closer, while Lumiya joined the “usual suspects” with a further weekly release, this one incorporating inventory controls.

Updates for week ending: 10 June, 2012

• SL Viewer updates:
  • Beta version: 3.3.3.258769, June 4th (release notes)
  • Development: rolled to 3.3.4.259223, June 9th
  • Pathfinding: 3.3.2.256513, June 6th
• Dolphin Viewer rolled to version 3.3.9.24419 – June 14th (release notes)
  • 3.3.9 graphics issue fixed.
• Exodus has introduced nightly builds ahead of the next release
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to 1.41 on the 11th June (release notes)
• Zen Viewer released version 3.3.4.1 June 10th (release notes)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.17 on June 9th, (change log)
• Lumiya rolled out version 2.0.4 on June 10th (release notes)
• Libretto rolled to version 0.17 on June 10th (release notes)

Related Links

• Current viewer releases page
• Index of release summaries
• Third -party Viewer Directory – LL