Hello All,
We have just updated to Second Life 1.12 which will contain a number of significant changes and improvements to the system. The full release notes are included at the bottom of this message. Of special note in this release are:
New Groups System
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- The Group Membership Limit has been raised from 15 to 25 groups.
- The Group Member Minimum has been reduced from 3 to 2 people.
- With Members, Roles, and Abilities, you’re finally be able to control “who can do what” within a group, giving organization and flexibility for all kinds of groups.
- Group Founders have much greater control over their groups with the ability to stop rogue Officers. Founders can also prevent group land sales, objects being inadvertently or intentionally returned, and worse.
- Group Communication has been vastly improved. A ‘Notices’ tab has been added to the Group Information panel. Simply typing up a message and clicking “Send Message” will get the word out to your entire group. In addition, a single item can be attached to notices. This makes distribution of inventory a snap.
For a full user guide to this new and improved Groups System, please visit:
http://secondlife.com/app/help/new/groups.html
Estate Land Sales and Covenants
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- Estate Owners can now attach Covenants to their estates. Covenants are documents that outline land use and restrictions and are visible to all Residents. They are essentially a ‘Terms of Use’ document applicable to privately owned land in Second Life. This is helpful for potential land buyers to see up front when choosing an estate to live in.
- Estate Owners and Managers are now able to offer land directly for sale to other Residents for L$. This puts more control of private land sales into the hands of Residents. It also gives buyers the ability to resell the land to other Residents without needing to go through an Estate Owner or Manager.
New Land Sale Interface
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- The new land sale interface helps to mitigate the practice known as ‘land swooping’. This is a common problem whereby a Resident might set land for sale to a friend but didn’t make the necessary changes to the About Land box in time. What usually happens is another buyer ’swoops’ in and grabs the land for a low price. The new land sales dialog makes it easier to choose whether to sell your land to ‘anyone’ or a specific buyer.
User Interface Improvement Highlights
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- When taking Snapshots in Second Life, Freeze is now an option rather than the default behavior.
- The default attachment point for objects is now the right hand instead of the head. This should be the end of what is commonly known as ‘Box-head syndrome’.
- For Second Life builders, Selection effect particles can now be disabled independently (Tools->Show Selection Beam). This means your “My Effects” particles no longer get in the way and you can build without disabling all particles. (i.e. the dots won’t block your objects)
There’s much much more below, please read on…
Full Release Notes for Second Life 1.12.0(13) August 23, 2006
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New features:
* Support for Covenants
** Covenants may now be associated with Estates
** These documents detail land use rules and restrictions
** Available in About Land
** Covenants are visible to anyone
* Estate Land Sales
** Estate owners/managers are now able to sell land to other Residents for L$
** “Allow Land Resell” Allows estate owners and managers to set the land for further resale beyond the initial buyer. The land can be set to sell at any time, however, without this option enabled.
*** Estate owners/managers may specify rules for land sale and usage in Covenants
*** Buyers of the land on private estates may be limited in their ability to re-sell land depending on settings determined by Estate owner/manager
** Group land on estate has been changed
*** Land on estates, owned by a group or by anyone other than the estate owner, can no longer be subdivided or joined
*** Only parcels that are owned by the estate owner can be subdivided
*** Only Estate Owners and Estate Managers can subdivide the estate owner’s parcels
* Group Enhancements
** Group limit per user increased from 15 to 25
** Group member minimum reduced from 3 to 2
** The group information user interface has been redesigned
* Group Notices
** Group notices can be created in the ‘Group Information > Notices’ tab
** Group notices can include an attachment
** Group notices are sent to all group members
** Members may opt to not receive these notices in the ‘Group Information > General’ tab
** Members can browse the last 30 days of notice history
** Members with IM to Email set will receive these notices offline
* Group Roles
** Groups can be configured using the ‘Group Information > Members & Roles’ tab
** A group is now composed of up to 10 user-configured Roles
*** The “Everyone” and “Owner” roles count for these purposes
* Group powers to return objects from parcels are divided based on Owned by group, Set to group, and Not group related
** Residents may hold more than one Role in a group
** Each role can be configured to allow certain group Actions
** Each role gets its own title
** Members of a group are assigned to Roles to define the Actions they can perform in that group
** Group members are always a part of that group’s ‘Everyone’ role
** Example:
*** Current groups have two Roles: ‘Everyone’ and ‘Officer’
*** All group members can do Actions allowed by the ‘Everyone’ role, such as voting on proposals
*** Only group members assigned to the ‘Officer’ role can do Actions such as invite new members
** Groups now have a special role: ‘Owner’
** ‘Owners’ have full control over the group, but cannot remove other ‘Owners’
** Promoting group members to Owner warns user that this change is irreversible
** The last owner of a group cannot leave without selecting a successor
** Current groups will have members selected to be ‘Owners’ based on the first to match these rules:
*** 1) A founder in the group
*** 2) Officers with 512 or more sq. m. land contributed
*** 3) All officers
*** 4) Nobody (no ‘Owner’ role is created)
*** Owner and Everyone roles cannot be renamed
* New Sell Land interface
** Specify sell price, Sell To resident, and sale of objects all simultaneously
** Residents muse specify a specific resident or manually select “Sell to Anyone” before the dialog is completed
** This new interface should greatly reduce accidental land sales
Improved Snapshot Interface
* “Freeze Frame” toggle added to snapshots
** Remove checkbox to restore old snapshot behavior
LSL changes:
* Scripts will not start running until the “Running” box is manually checked
* The following script commands now work on group-owned objects:
** llGiveInventory
** llGiveInventoryList
** llInstantMessage
** llRemoteLoadScriptPin
Other changes:
* New tools have been added to the Debug menu (accessed by SHFT-CTRL-ALT-D or CTRL-OPT-D on
Mac), which has been split into two menus: Client and Server.
* Selection effect particles can now be disabled independently (Tools->Show Selection Beam)
* Group-owned objects can be muted
** If a group owned object offers you an item, the blue box will say “Keep”, “Discard”, and “Mute”
** Mute adds the group to your Mute List and all objects owned by that group will be muted
** Muted group owned objects will not be able to IM you or send you items
* Group elections have been removed
* Provided greater visibility for any fee incurred while joining a group
** Group membership now uses the membership fee at the time of invitation instead of the fee at the time invitation is accepted
* Group-owned objects that you have control over are now highlighted on the mini-map.
* “Show in Group List” checked by default
* Added ability to deny access to Parcels/Estates based on Pay Info Level
* “Grant Modify Rights” has been changed to be more comprehensive
** You can now allow the person being granted rights greater freedom of modification
** Friends list now shows when modify rights are granted
* Default attachment point changed from head to right hand
* Reversed positions of “Take Copy” and “Wear” in pie menu
* Icon for push restriction added
* “Edit Land” is now “Edit Terrain”
* Altered formula for temp-on-rez limits (generally to be more permissive)
* Temp vehicles are not reclaimed until all passengers unsit
* Improved wording of error message while joining parcels on an estate (parcels must be owned by estate owner)
* Parcel joins and subdivides uncheck the For Sale box
* Ban list now disables when a parcel is sold
* In-world links to the Forums and Wiki now point to the Knowledge Base and Blogs
* Clicking in text fields in Edit Tools selects the input position without highlighting the entire field
* Ctrl-F now puts keyboard focus on the Find text box
* Added art for eyedropper
* “No Fly” is visible in God mode
* Font information for scroll list headers can now be provided by the user
* Improved look and feel of several windows
Bug fixes:
* Fixed tracking residents via Show on Map
* Fixed default button highlighted while other button selected
* Fixed button states during mouseovers
* Fixed dragging item into object contents
* Fixed a simulator crash with notices
* Fixed persistence of Global Time in Region/Estate
* Fixed incoming IMs stealing focus from Abuse and Bug reports
* Fixed a client crash with “Set Scripts Not Running in Selection”
* Fixed alignment of Search window panels
* Improved detection of rapid mouse clicks
* Camera and movement controls do not gain keyboard focus
* Camera and movement controls persist across sessions
* Fixed a client crash while connecting to downed simulator
* Fixed a client crash with F1 Help
* Frontmost floater gets Return key only if it has keyboard focus
* Improved appearance of alpha objects in Object Silhouette mode
* Objects with “No Copy” permissions should delete to owner
* Fixed client crash with chat bar and “Kick user from estate”
* Fixed Name and Description highlighting after Return is pressed
* Fixed Z-coordinate in classified ads
* Fixed LSL XML-RPC for attachments breaking on teleport
* Fixed returned object continuing to affect sim prim usage
* Crash Reporter remembers its previous settings
* Fixed client crash and asset loss while editing complex objects
* Fixed artifacts in LOD changes
* Dragging past the end of a text field no longer scrolls the text
* Aspect ratio corrects when toggling fullscreen
* Edit menu now has a detach option for skirt layers
* Fixed a cause of slow rezzing of textures and tree details
* Fixed an issue that would prevent simstate autosaves
* Fixed a bug causing region crossing performance to degrade in 1.11
* Fixed text in several windows and improved tool tips
* Several actions have been updated so that the Apply button can be used when modifying them
* Group creation failure no longer charges you for creating group
* Client no longer crashes when copying a selection in the Create menu
* Clicking Cancel when changes need to be applied no longer stops Second Life client from closing
* Crossing a region into a parcel where you are banned no longer causes avatar to float through parcel or go into orbit
* Corrected issue causing Estate Owners to get unexpected results when teleporting to a parcel where they are banned on their estate
* Last item in a list can once again be highlighted and selected
* Declined objects are correctly removed from recipients inventory
* Delete key now works as expected in the Tools > Edit window
* Client no longer crashes when right clicking certain parcels
* Group names cannot be shorter than 4 characters or longer than 35 characters
* Abandoned parcels on the mainland now properly report owner as ‘Governor Linden’
* Client no longer crashes when user selects land over two parcels, then clicks “About Land”
* Autoreturn settings can now be changed
* User is now notified when receiving snapshots, notecards, and landmarks
* Apply now updates all changed elements in a window
* Correct various “Apply” buttons to grey out once clicked
* Group-owned objects appear as “owned” in About Land -> Objects when on group owned land
* Ctrl-D (duplicate) now works on group-owned objects with the proper permissions
* Land owners can always fly on their parcel (unless the entire sim restricts flight)
* Fixed a bug that caused the Create Group dialog to discard all data if the group name already exists
* Resolved numerous issues with scroll lists causing information not to load or be displayed improperly
* Group contribution no longer displayed as a negative number
* Mainland parcels now displayed in map overlay regardless of your location
* Residents can now retrieve no-modify objects they own from other people’s parcels
* Resolved several exploits
Linux client fixes:
* No linux client specific fixes in this version