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.

A very quiet week!

Updates for week ending: 20 May, 2012

• No changes to any of the major SL Viewer releases
• Zen Viewer released version 3.3.3.4 on May 15th
• Niran’s Viewer rolled through release 1.37 (14 May) to 1.38 (21st May, close enough to make this update)
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.13 on 19th May, with change log here
• Group Tool made a release on May 20. Due to issues with the trial licence, still unable to test / review.

Related Links

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

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: 14 May, 2012

• No changes to the official release of the SL Viewer
• The Beta Viewer rolled to 3.3.2 (255742), complete with the contributed Local Textures capability
• The SL Development Viewer rolled to 3.3.3.255954 on May 8th
• The Pathfinding Project Viewer rolled to 3.3.2.256513 on May 11th
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to version 1.36 on May 9th
• Zen Viewer released version 3.3.3.3 on May 9th
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.12 on 12th May, with change log here
• Lumiya released version 2.0.0 on May 11th, with the addition of a 3D in-world view capability

Related Links

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

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: 6 May, 2012

Several updates occurred this week, with Dolphin, Niran’s and Zen in particular all making two releases apiece.

• No changes to the official release or Beta of the SL Viewer
• The SL Development Viewer rolled to 3.3.3.255742 on May 4th
• The SL Mesh Deformer Project Viewer received and update (blog post) on May 3rd
• Dolphin went through two rapid-fire releases, with 3.3.6.23776 appearing on May 1st, followed by 3.3.7.23790 on May 4th
• Niran’s Viewer rolled to version 1.34 on May 3rd, and then version 1.35 as this update was being prepared overnight on the 6th/7th
• Zen Viewer released versions 3.3.3.1 and 3.3.3.2 in short order on May 3rd and 5th respectively, change logs for both here
• Cool VL Viewer rolled to 1.26.4.11 on 1st May, with change log here
• Lumiya released version 1.3.4 on May 5th, with changes noted here.

Related Links

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

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: 29 April, 2012

Several updates this week – most from “the usual suspects” :), but also one or two changes to the Round-up page itself.

• The SL release Viewer updated to release 3.3.1.254524 on April 24th
• The SL Development Viewer rolled to 3.3.3.254948 on April 26th
• The SL Direct Delivery Project Viewer is removed from the Round-up Page, as DD is launched and the Project Viewer itself has not been updated post-launch
• The SImplified Inventory Project Viewer will remain until the status of that project (active / defunct?) becomes clearer
• Dolphin released version 3.3.5.23763 “Fellini” in April 28th, bringing with it an adaptation of Marx Catteneo’s machinima tools (in turn based on work by NiranV Dean). I’ve run a small review here
• Niran’s Viewer itself reached a full release on the 27th April, with a host of features and revisions which I review here. This release sees Niran’s Viewer listed on the Third-party Viewer Directory
• Zen Viewer reached release 3.3.3.0, also on the 27th April  which includes a number of updates, including the latest release of Qarl’s parametric deformer
• Cool VL Viewer rolled out 1.26.4.10 on the 26th April. Among the changes made is a “Rebuild avatar” feature (in Advanced -> Character) allowing to rebuild your avatar skeleton from scratch after removing a rigged mesh which deformed the said skeleton, and the latest release of the parametric deformer
• Two rapid-fire updates were made to the Lumiya Android client on the 29th April, with versions 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 being released in short order and available through the Android Market and Google Play respectively. Each includes a number of updates & improvements.

Related Links

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

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

Related Links

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

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

Related Links

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