Tag: 2012 Viewer Release Summaries

Viewer release summary 2012: week 16

Posted on by Inara Pey

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.

Updates for week ending: 22 April, 2012

  • The SL Beta Viewer rolled to 3.3.1.254008 and Development Viewer rolled to 3.3.2.254043, which includes the new local textures viewer (textures can be used in builds, but will only be visible to you; other users will see them greyed-out) – both released on the 17th April
  • Dolphin reached a jumbo number, 3.3.3.23747, code-named “Armageddon”, which includes Linden Lab’s “local textures” solution integrated into it, replacing the code common to most TPVs (note this doesn’t replace the “temporary upload” option within the image upload floater), together with the single AO “button in a button” solution that has been appearing across V3.2 TPVs over the last few months. Lance explains the “Armageddon” code name in terms of a video clip, which kind-of has a link back to “747”…
  • Niran V Dean has rectified recent computer issues, making a 2nd PREVIEW release of version 1.33 of Niran’s Viewer. This includes a hosts of tweaks, a number of very cool additions (including two excellent camera presets and make a large number of fixes, include implementation of assorted STORM JIRA. I’ll be reviewing the full release of 1.33 in-depth in the near future
  • Zen Viewer passed rapidly through version 3.3.2.8, and reach 3.3.2.9 with various fixes and tweaks in both
  • Cool VL Viewer rolled out 1.26.4.9. Among the changes made are a number of LSL support updates and a fix to the Linux version to prevent the Viewer crashing when uploading rigged meshes

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Viewer release summary 2012: week 15

Posted on by Inara Pey

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.

Updates for week ending: 15 April, 2012

  • The SL Development Viewer rolled to 3.3.2.253914, prior to .253960 being pushed out as this summary was being prepared
  • Dolphin rolled over to , 3.3.3.23731, code-named “Issos”, which includes a new Preferences setting to determine how multiple menus from an scripted object are handled; a new RESET button on the Build floater to reset pivot offset points back to the centre of the object; fixes for how music fade is handled in teleports and mouse cursor appearance changes and for ensuring the avatar offset reset button in the status panel is correctly hidden in Mouselook
  • Zen Viewer rolled to version 3.3.2.7, which includes Boost (compile tool) updates
  • Cool VL Viewer rolled out 1.26.4.8 . Among the changes made is a backport of the V3.3 Runway Project code to improve avatar rezzing speeds
  • The Android Lumiya text client released version1.3.1, which I look at today, adding support for transactions and interaction with in-world objects

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Viewer release summary 2012: week 14

Posted on by Inara Pey

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.

Updates for week ending: 8 April, 2012

Slightly late this week, due to Easter.

There were several changes last week, some of which fell just after publishing the Week 13 round-up. Changes are always reflected in the Round-up page as soon as I learn about them, so always best to follow the links to that page for the most up-to-date news.

  • The SL Beta and Development Viewers rolled out updated versions shortly after the last update, moving to  3.3.1.252229 and 3.3.2.252822 respectively
  • The Pathfinding Beta Viewer moved to release 3.3.2.252475
  • Dolphin saw a further release, 3.3.2.23722, which primarily comprised updates to the Build floater, with clean-up to Preferences and improvements to ID3 info on Linux
  • The Kokua team released an experimental version of their Viewer for the Mac
  • Niran’s Viewer saw a Preview release of version 1.33
  • Zen Viewer rolled to version 3.3.2.6, the release technical being this week, but as this summary is running late, it’s listed here as well
  • Cool VL Viewer rolled out 1.26.4.7 (.7b in the case of Linux due to repackaging). This release saw the port of the Merchant Outbox support
  • I received word via Twitter that the Astra Viewer is likely to be making a return to SL; as and when this happens, it will be added to this list.

Viewer release summary 2012: week 13

Posted on by Inara Pey

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.

Updates for week ending: 1 April, 2012

This last week has been a busy one, with numerous updates, some connected to Direct Delivery, others as a result of RLV updates.

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Viewer release summary 2012: week 12

Posted on by Inara Pey

Change in Format

I’m moving the weekly listing to a page on its own for ease of reference – see viewer review panel on the right of the home page for this blog. From this week, I’ll be running a quick highlight of any updates with a link to the main Viewer Round-up page, which also now catalogues all reviews I’ve written on each of the Viewers I keep an eye on. Round-up will always refer to the previous week.

Updates for week ending: 25 March, 2012

After the rush with updates on the 19th (just after I published my last update, forcing me to update the update!), with Niran’s Phoenix and Firestorm all getting news versions, things have been relatively quiet.

  • Linden Lab have launched a new Pathfinding Project Viewer – currently works on the Beta Grid for pathfinding
  • Niran’s Viewer upped from 1.30 to 1.31, with further floater customisations
  • Zen Viewer went to release 3.3.2.0 with the addition of the Merchant’s Outbox
  • Cool VL Viewer rolled out 1.26.4.5 with “minimal” DD support – Henri is apparently working on a port of the Outbox code, so don’t expect it in this release & give him a change to code / test 🙂
  • Radegast issued release 1.26, with better inventory support links, DD notifications support, and improvements to the scene viewer

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Viewer release summary 2012: week 11

Posted on by Inara Pey

Updates for week ending: 17 March, 2012

Updated 20th March to reflect Niran’s, Firestorm and Phoenix releases. Also, review links will take you to a library page for those viewers / clients I’ve reviewed more than once.

Changes since the last Round-up shown in green.

SL Official Viewers

Available for: Windows, Linux, Mac

V3.2-based TPVs

V1-based TPVs

Text-based Clients (New)

This is intended to be a weekly round-up of current public SL ciewers / clients (of which I’m aware / for which I have information / which I can run (Windows / Android)). As few Viewers are static, and releases are made according to individual development cycles, further versions of any given viewer / client may well be released between these updates, and as such the information here may become out-of-date as the week progresses. Please check with the relevant download pages.

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