At this time we are planning on performing maintenance work during our
regular weekly slot of 7:00 AM SLT/PDT to 12:00 PM SLT/PDT on
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006. Second Life will be unavailable during
this period and a new viewer will be required.
The preview for the update will be available for everyone at 4pm PDT today here:
http://secondlife.com/community/preview.php
This release contains a number of bug fixes and some major improvements including separation of system sounds from audio streams. The full release notes (while subject to change) are as follows:
Release Notes for Second Life 1.11.3(0) Last Updated: August 4, 2006
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Other changes:
* System Sound Effects have been decoupled from the Audio Stream
** This allows system sounds like typing to be muted while listening to
live performances and so forth
** Sound Effects volume can now be set in Preferences > Audio & Video >
Sound Effects Volume
** Streaming Audio volume is set as it was before using the in-world
Audio Control panel
Bug fixes:
* Preferences no longer save when user profile has non-ASCII character
in its path
* Resolved client crash when clicking Preferences > Popups > Reset 'Show
next time' Dialogs
* CTRL-ENTER once again activates Chat Shout
* Drop-down boxes now respond to control keys as expected
* Resolved client crash related to mute lists
* Resolved client crash related to applying color to an object
* Scroll wheel once again causes Chat History window to scroll
* Drag-selecting text in a type-in field no longer causes selected text
to be stuck
* World Map once again correctly accepts coordinates for pin-point
teleporting
* First name in a search query is once again automatically highlighted
when search is performed
* Resolved a bug which caused an orange flicker to occur (most
noticeable during sunset and sunrise)
* Upper-case file extensions are now recognized when uploading files and
no longer cause an error
Linux client fixes:
* No Linux client specific fixes in this version