[sldev] Upcoming Releases

[Matthew Dowd]

Sounds good,
 
One question and a comment:
 
What is QAR-nnn ?
 
Given the longer release cycle, I would urge LL to consider getting the UI for switching skins in sooner rather than later (preferably within the 1.20 RC cycle), and to seriously consider shipping with multiple skins (at least one darker as well as a bright skin).
 
Matthew
 



> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 11:11:01 -0700> From: bridie at lindenlab.com> To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com> Subject: [sldev] Upcoming Releases> > Hello SLDev folks!> > As you all know, things can change quickly @ the 'Lab (although I'm sure > it some times that it doesn't feel quick enough!), we're a bit over due > in sharing our plans for upcoming releases. We'll try to do this on a > more regular basis in the future (feel free to poke me if I'm remiss in > this effort!)> > Viewer:> For those of you keeping score, we're on our 7th iteration of Second > Life Viewer 1.20 Release Candidate. RC6 went out last week:> http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/05/07/new-release-candidate-viewer-120-rc6-available/> > As mentioned on the blog, we tried more frequent iterations in this > Release Candidate viewer cycle in an attempt to find and fix as many > viewer crashes as possible and increase overall viewer stability with > other important fixes along the way.> > The good news is that we have fixed a number of hot issues, and isolated > and fixed several nasty crash bugs. We made good progress on fixing > video card specific crashes, but haven't squashed them all. We have been > keeping a close watch on 1.20's crash statistics compared to the default > download 1.19.1. (Note, for those worried about the crash reporter some > times failing to send crash reports (VWR-7105), keep in mind that we > catch whether or not the viewer crashed previously upon login, > independent of the crash reporter sending details).> > Although the stability of 1.20 RC6 has improved over these last few > weeks, it's still not as solid as we would like — so although we are > excited to make Dazzle available as part of the default download (and > yes, we know not everyone is thrilled with the new UI appearance), we > want to take the next few weeks to continue iterating on 1.20 to look > into the cause of crashes and lockups.> > In a nutshell, we are going to extend the Release Candidate cycle for > Second Life 1.20 Viewer.> > We will be re-branching off of the release code branch (i.e., trunk) and > in addition to the stability work, we'll pick up some feature work and > other fixes that were not originally planned for this release cycle. > Although this does create the potential for a short term stability hit, > we feel that it's worth taking the time and effort to incorporate > additional code to help us find and fix crash issues. The additions include:> > (From QAR-491)> * Thread monitoring to catch freezes> > (From QAR-460)> * Improved internationalization support for Linux> > (From QAR-468)> * New feature: VWR-4794: Basic voice lipsync for voice visualization> > (From QAR-500)> * Fixed: VWR-4057: Multi-line chat display bug - first character in line > missing> * Fixed: VWR-3857: Script (LSL) editor shows non Latin 1 characters as > square boxes> * Fixed: VWR-2275: Linux 1.18.3 Won't Link> * Fixed: VWR-3813: gtk_check_version() API changed to return const gchar > * - causes gcc ERROR> > (From QAR-487)> * Updated library version for openssl> > (From QAR-517)> * Fixed: VWR-1735: Directly interacting with a muted resident should > unmute them> * Fixed: VWR-2142: Parcel voice icon doesn't reflect disabled status if > voice isn't used> * Fixed: VWR-2272: Fly button doesn't work while sitting> * Fixed: VWR-5853: Double-Clicking on vertical edge of Inventory/Gesture > window destroys the floating window.> * Fixed: VWR-4204: Clicking on names in Chat/Group IM history should > open Profile page or IM> * Fixed: VWR-2448: Snapshot Preview tool should respect 'Quiet Snapshots > to Disk'> * Fixed: Pop-up menu width should try to accomodate the longest menu > item (within reason)> * Fixed: Can't change values with debug settings floater> * Partial Fix: Pasting multiline clipboard content into chat loses newlines> * Fixed: New users are naked until they choose a gender.> * Fixed: Focus > Zoom button can't be re-selected> * Fixed: Move "Set Window Size" options into preferences> * Fixed: Make clothing-still-downloading dialog into an ignorable alert.> * Fixed: Internationalize additional hard-coded viewer strings to a > strings.xml file> > (From QAR-565)> * Fixed: Search > Popular Places is replaced by a Search > Showcase tab > that points to the website Showcase> > (From QAR-566)> * Fixed: VWR-6186: Second Life is leaking Objective-C objects at startup> * Fixed: VWR-3598: Non-group owned objects appear to belong to the group > of the last selected object, no matter the owner/group.> * Fixed: SVC-1241: Dead code in lscript_execute.cpp> * Fixed: VWR-463: Blank is a pre-defined texture in client, but not in LSL> * Fixed: Debug Permissions displays overlap> * Fixed: Objects with no group tagging show group tags of previously > clicked items> * Fixed: stop bundling libexpat with the linux viewer> > (From QAR-570)> * openGL monitoring via Advanced->Rendering->Debug GL option to turn on > extra rendering error checking and help reproduce crashes> > Expect 1.20 RC7 next week and at least 2 more iterations before we call > it a final release (some time in early June).> > > Server:> A patch to Server 1.21.1 is going out this week to address a handful of > issues including a fix for SVC-1428 (Malformed llInstantMessage() gets > sent to email) as well as a few other crucial security fixes.> > Server 1.22 is now slated to go out next week, but will be spending time > in QA and on the Beta Grid (yes, Beta Grid!), Aditi, this week. Coming > in 1.22:> * Finalize distribution of 'last location' and 'home location' from the > central database to the partitioned agent databases to lighten the write > load to the database"> * Additional metrics to log:> ** Suspected failure points in inventory transfers initiated by LSL2 scripts> ** IMs, lures and inventory transfers between regions indicating any > failure to find the destination agent.> ** Rezzing and storing avatar attachments.> ** Suspected failure point in manual inventory transfers between agents > in two different regions.> ** Separate temporary failures to load assets from real inventory loss.> * Max queued size on event queue is now configurable to prevent TCP > messages from getting dropped> ** Should help reduce failed teleports> > > Beta Grid:> Look for a blog post from Prospero soon with more details, but we are > returning Aditi to its Beta Grid glory! Our plan, in short, is to let > server code 'bake' on the Beta Grid for several days before rolling to > the main grid. Different channels on Aditi are being created to allow > public testing of other versions of the server as well.> > > Thanks everyone.> > --Bridie> _______________________________________________> Click here to unsubscribe or manage your list subscription:> /index.html
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