In our continuing effort to improve the Second Life experience we plan to release SecondLife 1.7.4 on Monday, November 21, 2005 (pending final verification of fixes). The grid will be down from 6am to 12pm SLT for this update. A new viewer will be required.
The major fixes in the new version are for problems with textures loading, QuickTime crashes, many minor bug fixes. We have also introduced two minor changes of interest:
First, we have changed the default texture for objects with unloaded textures. We've added a hard edge to the default texture so that residents can tell it is there even if the real texture has not yet loaded.
Second, we have changed the default behavior for Hover Tips. Now, when you have "Show Hover Tips" turned ON, you will see hover information only for objects with which you can interact. We have added a new setting to the settings.ini file that allows the old behavior of seeing Tips for all objects to be turned back on. Of course, turning Hover Tips off still has the same behavior -- no tips are displayed.
Release notes will be posted here in their entirety when the release is finalized.