We're releasing Second Life 1.2.6 tomorrow morning. We'll be taking the service down at 7 AM Pacific Time, and should be down for less than two hours.
This version fixes many of the reported bugs, including some of those mentioned in the recent town hall as being particularly annoying.
There are also a few more script calls for all you scripters.
Release notes below.
James
*** Version 1.2.6 ***
* Group owned land is now supported. Each group has an allocation
of land, just like each player. Groups start with no allocation,
but members can contribute part of their allocation to the group
in the 'Group Information' dialog under Edit -> Groups....
This dialog will also show you where all of the group owned plots
are located and how many square meters each member has contributed
to the group to be used for group owned land.
Like user owned parcels, group owned land from version 1.1
have until the 26th of January to be "approved." Group owned parcels
are automatically approved once the group has collected enough
contributions from the members to cover the land claims.
You can tell if a group owned parcel is not approved by opening
the 'About Land' dialog and the text "
Sale Pending)" will be visible.* You can see all of your contributions to your groups in the
'My Land' dialog.
* Groups also get a 10% bonus on all land contributions. For example,
if you contribute 1000 square meters of land, the group can
collectively own 1100 square meters.
* If you have hundreds of parcels, they should more reliably display
in the 'My Land' dialog.
* The 'About Land' dialog always shows the area of the parcel.
* Fixed a problem where keyboard auto-repeat (holding down a key
to repeat it) would spontaneously stop working.
* There is an option in Preferences to turn off the auto-fly and
auto-land behavior introduced in 1.2.
* Fixed a problem with Account History > Sales/Gifts where it would
not show all the day's transactions, especially if the items had
long names. It now shows them all.
* There is now a land parcel "Join" button. Drag a rectangle that
overlaps all the land parcels you want to join, then click the
button to join them into one. You will need to adjust the
properties manually.
* Land parcels that are for sale now have orange property lines.
There is a known bug that the color does not change immediately
when you check the For Sale checkbox. It will be correct after
you exit and re-enter the sim.
* Add PropertyColorForSale to colors.ini. If you have changed your
colors.ini file, you must give a value for this color or
Second Life will crash.
* Adjusted colors in the group information panels to make the
vote proposals and other text visible again.
* You are no longer able use the secondlife://simname/X/Y/
option to login to sims that are not normally accessible.
* Using the secondlife://simname/X/Y/ option now automatically:
opens the map, orients you so that the destination is in view,
and tracks the destination.
* New users can no longer return to Orientation Island after they
teleport to the main continent.
* Fixed crash on Mac when changing Display Preferences at the
startup screen.
* Fixed texture scaling and rotation being incorrectly displayed
on the Mac.
* Phantom is now properly preserved on object rez and derez.
* Animations are improved. Arms no longer pop out straight to the
sides. Wrists are no longer in strange orientations when selecting
objects.
* Nearby avatars sitting on ground no longer causes the Fly button
to change to Stand Up.
* New script functions:
llResetOtherScript(string name)
Resets script named "name" on an object. This allows one script
to reset another.
integer llGetScriptState(string name)
Returns TRUE if script name is running. This allows one script
to check on another.
llRemoteLoadScript(key target, string name, integer running,
integer start_param)
If the owner of the object this script is attached, can modify
object target, and both objects are in the same region, then
copy script name onto target. If running == TRUE, start the
script with param. If name already exists on target, replace
it with the new copy. This allows a scripted object to update
other scripted objects.