Updates for the week ending Sunday, May 29th
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: 4.0.5.315117 (dated May 11), May 18th – no change: formerly the Quick Graphics RC viewer 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):
- Maintenance RC viewer, version 4.0.6.315551 release on May 23 – a modest but useful set of 24 fixes and updates to the viewer (download and release notes)
- Inventory Message RC viewer updated to version 4.0.6.315555 on May 23 – removal of deprecated and unused UDP inventory messaging mechanisms from the viewer (download and release notes)
- Project viewers:
- Project Bento (avatar skeleton extensions) updated to version 5.0.0.315657 on May 26 – this build includes the “reset Skeleton” option and additional slider updates (download and release notes).
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 in this blog
Third-party Viewers
V4-style
- No updates.
V1-style
- Cool VL viewer Stable branch updated to version 1.26.18.7 and the Experimental branch updated to version 1.26.19.9, both on May 28th (release notes).
Mobile / Other Clients
- No updates.
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