Second Life 1.19.0 Viewer new regular viewer 2-28-08

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 2:17 PM PST by: Bridie Linden

After spending several weeks in Release Candidate status, the Second Life 1.19.0 Viewer is now available for download as the primary viewer from the Community: Downloads page. Many thanks to all of you who helped us find and fix issues along the way!

The Second Life 1.19.0 Viewer contains some important new features, changes and a ton of bug fixes. This release also addresses the QuickTime security issue identified back in December and updates the required version of QuickTime to 7.4. Read on!

New features and changes:

* Voice
o Voice Chat is now enabled by default to allow Residents to hear other Residents.
o A microphone is required to speak to other Residents.
o Push-to-Talk is the default mode for transmitting voice.
o Push-to-Talk is on by default. This means Resident mics are off by default.
o These settings can be modified via the Voice Chat tab of the Preferences dialog.

* Age Verification:
o The user interface for parcel and estate access has been clarified and improved.
o Added the ability to restrict access to parcels and estates to age verified adults.
o Removed the ability to *ban* access to Residents who have provided payment info or who have used payment info. We continue to support the ability to *allow* access to only those who have provided payment info.

* Crash Reporter
o The crash reporting mechanism has been improved. Following a crash, more useful information will be sent and reports should now take less than 10 seconds.

* VWR-210: Voice Support on Linux
o This is experimental, see README-linux-voice.txt for more information or discuss it in the Linux Client Testers forum

* Other changes:
o Change alert message that pops up when you set Busy
o Add “Teleporting from SLURL to SLURL” to the chat history to provide simple “back” links
o Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
o Remove “New Account…” and “Preferences” buttons from login screen for 1.19.0

Complete 1.19.0 Release Notes available on the Second Life wiki. Please continue to report any new issues in the Issue Tracker and be sure to set “Affects Version/s” to 1.19.0.4.

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Release Notes for Second Life 1.19.0(4) February 28th, 2008

New features and changes:

* Voice
o Voice Chat is now enabled by default to allow Residents to hear other Residents.
o A microphone is required to speak to other Residents.
o Push-to-Talk is the default mode for transmitting voice.
o These settings can be modified via the Voice Chat tab of the Preferences dialog.

* Age Verification:
o The user interface for parcel and estate access has been clarified and improved.
o Added the ability to restrict access to parcels and estates to age verified adults.
o Removed the ability to *ban* access to Residents who have provided payment info or who have used payment info. We continue to support the ability to *allow* access to only those who have provided payment info.

* Crash Reporter
o The crash reporting mechanism has been improved. Following a crash, more useful information will be sent and reports should now take less than 10 seconds.

* VWR-210: Voice Support on Linux (EXPERIMENTAL) - see README-linux-voice.txt

* Other changes:
o Change alert message that pops up when you set Busy
o Add "Teleporting from SLURL to SLURL" to the chat history to provide quick and dirty "back" links
o Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
o Remove "New Account..." and "Preferences" buttons from login screen for 1.19.0

Fixes:

* SVC-930[c]: Prims set for sale - prices are incorrectly set when multiple prims taken to inventory and rezzed
* SVC-1125[c]: New Search: Beacons aren't shown when teleporting to regions with "Allow Direct Teleport" disabled
* VWR-1125[c]: Clicking Title Bar While Mouselook'd Repositions SL Window
* VWR-1137[c]: Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties window
* VWR-1145[c]: Unable To Connect help not available
* VWR-1162[c]: Land for sale includes L$1 parcels that are not actually for sale
* VWR-1350[c]: Color settings do not appear to be applied to LSL default text
* VWR-1475[c]: OpenJPEG always uploads single layer lossless images
* VWR-1590[c]: Keyboard changes inventory selection after right-click
* VWR-1627[c]: Classified metrics are reset to 0 when the ad is updated
* VWR-1651[c]: Add ability to open a partners profile whilst viewing an avatar's profile
* VWR-1774[c]: Some avatar positions result in no Z-axis arrow when editing attachments
* VWR-1873[c]: Typos in en-us locale file
* VWR-1919[c]: Remove texture UUID information from UI unless full-perm
* VWR-2030[c]: Avatar only turns half-way in Appearance Mode
* VWR-2142[c]: Parcel voice icon doesn't reflect disabled status if voice isn't used
* VWR-2256[c]: Mac updater directory permission issues
* VWR-2367[c]: Wrong handling of maximum length of Group Notice message
* VWR-2404[c]: lossless texture compression on small textures not lossless
* VWR-2410[c]: noise dot appear in chat window when clien running long with chatting.
* VWR-2411[c]: Possible crash in pipeline.cpp
* VWR-2412[c]: Possible crash drawpoolwater
* VWR-2421[c]: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT + Second Life = "Couldn't match GPU to a class","Setting GPU Class to Class0"
* VWR-2483[c]: the macviewer.xcodeprj file doesn't create stripped binaries on Deployment or Universal
* VWR-250[c]: Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows
* VWR-2550[c]: Scuplty vertex coordinates are size/256 meters too small on the positive faces
* VWR-2614[c]: gActiveChannelSpeakerMgr not deleted at end of program in viewer.cpp
* VWR-2617[c]: Adds LLSD support to flex/light/sculpt params for primitives
* VWR-2652[c]: Changes needed to compile viewer against lastest libopenjpeg2000
* VWR-2684[c]: Minor leak in floaters using layoutstacks
* VWR-2722[c]: Muting an object with pie menu only mutes the prim you select, not entire linkset
* VWR-2847[c]: Wrong hover text in Japanese UI
* VWR-2854[c]: Some sculpted prims render as balls on close zoom, which look fine in older clients
* VWR-2867[c]: Eyes rotate unnaturally around their X axis. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise
* VWR-289[c]: URLs for video media streaming need to be URL-encoded or stream doesn't work
* VWR-2959}}: Windows (Visual Studio) solution file refers to a non-existing project "build_all"
* VWR-3088[c]: Unchecking "Automatic Appearance Camera Movement" no longer has any effect
* VWR-3206[c]: OpenJPEG svn478 causes slviewer to crash
* VWR-3428[c]: Checking a users profile while editing a linked set causes viewer crash
* VWR-3458[c]: Mouse cursor background is opaque white instead of transparent on big endian systems
* VWR-3558[c]: llLoadURL cannot be muted
* VWR-356[c]: Move delete to the bottom of context menus, separated by spacer
* VWR-3748[c]: Builds fail on 1.18.6 RC if not using MOZLIB due to missing #if LL_LIBXUL_ENABLED in 3 places in indra/newview/llpanellogin.cpp
* VWR-3948[c]: Underlayers no longer removable by pie menu in Windlight, release candidates
* VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can't edit.
* dialogs have extra vertical space
* Photo Album: name in Properties cut off some Japanese characters
* New gestures do not appear active in inventory
* Make parcel name in menu "look" active
* "Wear" pie option shows up for many objects even if resident does not own and cannot wear them.
* Textures on no-transfer objects can be transferred
* Deleted gestures still work
* Inventory description out of sync after renaming via Properties window
* Show private estate tiles when World Map is zoomed out
* Properties description not updated when preview description updated
* Buying object contents broken
* Improve window opening behavior, ensuring it is mostly on screen
* No-modify objects can be modified through Open pane
* Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties
* Japanese IME mode should be set and postiion of any input windows fixed for non-Japanese fields
* ctrl-shift-w doesn't work if no windows have focus
* Avatar falling in place - Alliez Mysterio
* Linux crash reporter does not run on next execution after forcing an infinite loop and forcefully exiting
* hitting enter should immediately set the value of a field
* Inventory Folder Loading state not clearly indicated
* Add warning dialog to the Land Sale process to warn against selling land to Anyone
* Legacy flossexception link needs to be fixed in source
* make link from client log in window to "Forgot Password" page
* Remove button under estate managers list enables after estate manager clicks in the list
* Changing search field should cancel current selection
* Estate tab within Tools / Region Estate has wrong settings for enable of Restrict Access upon initialization
* llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL caps output to 255 characters
* XUI LoadFromXML function doesn't work
* Sanitize floater sizing behavior when SL window is made very small
* Animation won't stop if avatar teleports while animated
* Can't paste name of object into View > Mute List > Mute object by name
* pressing ctrl-F10 then Escape causes keyboard to be unresponsive
* Make SL viewer updater show a progress bar so that people know how long to wait
* Can't double-click on groups in profile after changing your active title
* Getting multiple copies of texture dragged onto prim
* blue dialog's 'next' widget steals focus
* Audio should be encoded for upload at a 'good enough' quality rather than a user-selected bitrate
* multiple preview windows open for a single texture/snapshot saved inside a note card
* Enhance Viewer to support new Age Verification feature
* Rename crash setting to cause crash logger to come up for all residents
* Change crash logger "Remember this choice" function to default to on
* Rework Ban tab of floater_about_land
* Windows IME positioning fixed
* Viewer crashes in assert when playing Sword Strike animation
* Unable to set 'Group Access' for land that is also 'Public Access' (Was VWR-3667)
* Disable QuickTime when the installed version is less than version with RTSP exploit
* Korean viewer crashes on startup
* Move fullscreen message from login screen to viewer prefs
* linux client doesn't recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout)
* Search results window displays "s..." and "n..." instead of "searching..." and "none found"
* QuickTime disabled message can not be ignored
* Crash on login page when using Logitech LCD Keyboard
* SEC-17 Ability to Access Sculpted Prim Textures from Database without owning actual sculpt texture, allowing for people to "steal" sculpts.
* info window does not pop up when transitioning from a Havok1 to Havok4 region
* Repoint Report Bug... Viewer link to Pjira
* Upload Animation window: Button missing in Stopped window state

Source changes:

* Upgrade Win32 libvorbis to v1.2
* VWR-2881: Bundled Mesa libs are not GPL compatible
* upgrade in-tree Linux GL headers to Mesa 7.x
* upgrade in-tree Win32 GL headers to version without SGI Free B license
* Rebuild and/or update libraries to use statically linked libs.
* Remove llfloaterhtmlhelp.cpp / h and floater_html_help.xml

Ugh!


Only way I'll download it is if it's the only way to get into sl. Other then this I don't want it, Windlight included.

The complete release notes:

Any comments on the new version?

Any reason why this happens?

There's no Nicholaz version, and it sounds like it's unlikely there will be. I'm not downloading it unless I absolutely have to.

Some other programmer or team of them might need to step up to bat if Nicholaz isn't going to continue with updates.

I'm not sure what you mean.

Can't get the release notes?

Or can't download the new installation files of Second Life?

Videos no longer work with windows 2000

Out of curiosity, why don't you want it, Ricardo? I haven't tried it yet, myself, but from the release notes, it sounds like quite a few rather annoying bugs have been squashed, which is good. What about do you dislike so much that you'd prefer to keep the bugs? Or do you just hate change?

THE FRIENDS LIST NEVER EVER EVER LOADS EVER EVER

please can someone tell me how to get the old viewer back....I logged on and it said...YOU MUST DOWNLOAD THIS VIEWER OR YOU WONT BE ABLE TO LOG INTO SL.....in a red bounded box

Get the new viewer, lose your friends.

What is it that you think is wrong with it, Ricardo?

It not Windlight.

Two major things are wrong with this release, IMO (aside from the vids on W2K) - they removed the preferences button from the login screen (which came in handy to change graphic settings BEFORE I go inworld because that made the client less likely to crash compared to doing it when already online, and voice is now activated by default. Yeah, Lindens, shove it down our throats again, the resident bitches are gonna take it eventually... *sighs*

Two major things are wrong with this release, IMO (aside from the vids on W2K) - they removed the preferences button from the login screen (which came in handy to change graphic settings BEFORE I go inworld because that made the client less likely to crash compared to doing it when already online, and voice is now activated by default. Yeah, Lindens, shove it down our throats again, the resident bitches are gonna take it eventually... *sighs*

Two major things are wrong with this release, IMO (aside from the vids on W2K) - they removed the preferences button from the login screen (which came in handy to change graphic settings BEFORE I go inworld because that made the client less likely to crash compared to doing it when already online, and voice is now activated by default. Yeah, Lindens, shove it down our throats again, the resident bitches are gonna take it eventually... *sighs*

Edit-preferences at the top.

Yep, a problem. QuickTime 7.4 is now required, because earlier versions have a security hole. But there is no QuickTime 7.4 for Windows 2000; 7.1.6 was the last version that supported Windows 2000. This means that Windows 2000 is no longer a fully supported operating system for Second Life, though the system requirements have not yet been updated.

I don't expect that LL will consider it a priority to fix this. It's more likely that they will officially drop support of Win2K. You could rebuild the viewer with the QuickTime version requirement patched, at least until they start putting in code that won't work on Windows 2000.