In our continuing effort to improve the Second Life experience, we will up upgrading to version 1.12.1 tomorrow, Wednesday, September 13, from 7am until 12pm PST. During this time Second Life will be unavailable and a new viewer will be required. The release notes (pending final verification and fixes) are as follows:
New Features:
* Residents can be invited to your Friends list, even while they are offline or far away.
* Estate access and ban lists boosted up to 300 entries (previously 63)
* Estate managers now have the ability to subdivide and join parcels
* 'Play' has been added as a menu option when right-clicking an animation in your inventory
* A 'Stop' button has been added to the Animation prompt. The 'Play Locally' and 'Play in World' buttons (when an animation is opened in Inventory) will switch to 'Stop' when activated.
* 'Keep', 'Discard', and 'Mute' have been added to inventory transfer notifications - Clicking mute will put that user on your mute list
* Texture dimensions have been added to all texture preview windows
Other changes:
* Improved OS detection for Windows XP 64Bit, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows Vista
* Added timestamp and land resale/join information to About Land -> Covenant
* Changed the default draw distance for low end machines to improve frame rate
* Particle systems are now 'muted' when a resident is muted
* Help menu now has a link to the current Release Notes
LSL changes:
* llHTTPRequest throttling changed, requests are now limited to once per second per primitive.
For more information and release announcements, please visit our Blog at:
http://blog.secondlife.com/
In addition, the full release notes for 1.12.1 will be posted for your review on Thursday here:
http://secondlife.com/community/new-release.php