In our continuing effort to improve the Second Life experience, Second Life 1.8.1 is scheduled for release on Wednesday, January 11, 2006. The grid will be down from 7am to 12pm PT/SLT. A new version of the viewer will be required.
The release notes are as follows:
Second Life 1.8.1 Jan 11 , 2006
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* Property Lines option is now turned on and off by pressing CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-P (Windows) or CMD-OPT-SHIFT-P (Mac), or by using the View > "Property Lines" menu item
* Linden-owned Welcome Area and Sandbox regions are no longer displayed in the list of high-traffic areas
* Fixed a crash that occurred when teleporting
* llGetMass() now gets the mass of an avatar instead of an attachment
* Description field for newly created landmarks is now properly greyed out
* Resolved an issue where editing a single prim using Edit Linked Parts would negate movement and rotation settings
* Implemented several server-side and database updates to improve stability and performance
* Added some small interface changes to improve usability