Earlier today, the upcoming Second Life 1.19.0.0 release candidate viewer was accidentally released into the wild - that is, made available for download - though it is apparently not yet ready.
Linden Lab has set a rule on the login servers that forces a downgrade from 1.19.0 to 1.18.6.4, rather than allowing the 1.19.0.0 viewer to log in. 1.19.0 contains what must be a record number of bug-fixes (as well as experimental voice support for Linux) - and the updates this week were intended to support the new code, so it is definitely very close. The mammoth list of changes is after the fold.
Here's a mostly complete list of what's supposed to be in the new version
New features and changes:
- Age Verification:
- The user interface for parcel and estate access has been clarified and improved.
- Added the ability to restrict access to parcels and estates to age verified adults.
- Removed the ability to *ban* access to Residents who have provided payment info or who have used payment info. We continue to support the ability to *allow* access to only those who have provided payment info.
- Crash Reporter:
- The crash reporting mechanism has been improved. Following a crash, more useful information will be sent and reports should now take less than 10 seconds.
- Voice:
- VWR-210: Voice Support on Linux (EXPERIMENTAL) - see README-linux-voice.txt (during the short window this viewer was operational on the main grid, some users had a lot of success with voice under Linux. Others had none)
Other changes:
- Change alert message that pops up when you set Busy
- Add "Teleporting from SLURL to SLURL" to the chat history to provide quick and dirty "back" links
- Print the name of the missing gesture in the error message
- Remove "New Account..." and "Preferences" buttons from login screen for 1.19.0
Fixes:
- VWR-250: Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows
- VWR-289: URLs for video media streaming need to be URL-encoded or stream doesn't work
- VWR-356: Move delete to the bottom of context menus, separated by spacer
- VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you can't edit.
- SVC-750: Avatar sitting on a prim no longer able to be manipulated with llSetLinkPrimitiveParams (hasn't this one already been fixed, or is this a reversion?)
- SVC-930: Prims set for sale - prices are incorrectly set when multiple prims taken to inventory and rezzed
- SVC-1125: New Search: Beacons aren't shown when teleporting to regions with "Allow Direct Teleport" disabled
- VWR-1125: Clicking Title Bar While Mouselook'd Repositions SL Window
- VWR-1137: Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties window
- VWR-1145: Unable To Connect help not available
- VWR-1162: Land for sale includes L$1 parcels that are not actually for sale
- VWR-1350: Color settings do not appear to be applied to LSL default text
- VWR-1475: OpenJPEG always uploads single layer lossless images
- VWR-1590: Keyboard changes inventory selection after right-click
- VWR-1627: Classified metrics are reset to 0 when the ad is updated
- VWR-1651: Add ability to open a partners profile whilst viewing an avatar's profile
- VWR-1774: Some avatar positions result in no Z-axis arrow when editing attachments
- VWR-1873: Typos in en-us locale file
- VWR-1919: Remove texture UUID information from UI unless full-perm
- VWR-2030: Avatar only turns half-way in Appearance Mode
- VWR-2142: Parcel voice icon doesn't reflect disabled status if voice isn't used
- VWR-2256: Mac updater directory permission issues
- VWR-2367: Wrong handling of maximum length of Group Notice message
- VWR-2404: lossless texture compression on small textures not lossless
- VWR-2410: noise dot appear in chat window when client running long with chatting.
- VWR-2411: Possible crash in pipeline.cpp
- VWR-2412: Possible crash drawpoolwater
- VWR-2421: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT + Second Life = "Couldn't match GPU to a class","Setting GPU Class to Class0"
- VWR-2483: the macviewer.xcodeprj file doesn't create stripped binaries on Deployment or Universal
- VWR-2550: Scuplty vertex coordinates are size/256 meters too small on the positive faces
- VWR-2614: gActiveChannelSpeakerMgr not deleted at end of program in viewer.cpp
- VWR-2617: Adds LLSD support to flex/light/sculpt params for primitives
- VWR-2652: Changes needed to compile viewer against latest libopenjpeg2000
- VWR-2684: Minor leak in floaters using layoutstacks
- VWR-2722: Muting an object with pie menu only mutes the prim you select, not entire linkset
- VWR-2847: Wrong hover text in Japanese UI
- VWR-2854: Some sculpted prims render as balls on close zoom, which look fine in older clients
- VWR-2867: Eyes rotate unnaturally around their X axis. Clockwise/Counter-Clockwise
- VWR-2959: Windows (Visual Studio) solution file refers to a non-existing project "build_all"
- VWR-3088: Unchecking "Automatic Appearance Camera Movement" no longer has any effect
- VWR-3206: OpenJPEG svn478 causes slviewer to crash
- VWR-3428: Checking a users profile while editing a linked set causes viewer crash
- VWR-3458: Mouse cursor background is opaque white instead of transparent on big endian systems
- VWR-3558: llLoadURL cannot be muted
- VWR-3748: Builds fail on 1.18.6 RC if not using MOZLIB due to missing #if LL_LIBXUL_ENABLED in 3 places in indra/newview/llpanellogin.cpp
- VWR-3948: Underlayers no longer removable by pie menu in Windlight, release candidates
- dialogs have extra vertical space
- Photo Album: name in Properties cut off some Japanese characters
- New gestures do not appear active in inventory
- Make parcel name in menu "look" active
- "Wear" pie option shows up for many objects even if resident does not own and cannot wear them.
- Textures on no-transfer objects can be transferred
- Deleted gestures still work
- Inventory description out of sync after renaming via Properties window
- Show private estate tiles when World Map is zoomed out
- Properties description not updated when preview description updated
- Buying object contents broken
- Improve window opening behavior, ensuring it is mostly on screen
- No-modify objects can be modified through Open pane
- Inventory names out of sync after renaming via Properties
- Japanese IME mode should be set and postiion of any input windows fixed for non-Japanese fields
- ctrl-shift-w doesn't work if no windows have focus
- Avatar falling in place - Alliez Mysterio
- Linux crash reporter does not run on next execution after forcing an infinite loop and forcefully exiting
- hitting enter should immediately set the value of a field
- Inventory Folder Loading state not clearly indicated
- Add warning dialog to the Land Sale process to warn against selling land to Anyone
- Legacy flossexception link needs to be fixed in source
- make link from client log in window to "Forgot Password" page
- Remove button under estate managers list enables after estate manager clicks in the list
- Changing search field should cancel current selection
- Estate tab within Tools / Region Estate has wrong settings for enable of Restrict Access upon initialization
- llEscapeURL and llUnescapeURL caps output to 255 characters
- XUI LoadFromXML function doesn't work
- Sanitize floater sizing behavior when SL window is made very small
- Animation won't stop if avatar teleports while animated
- Can't paste name of object into View > Mute List > Mute object by name
- pressing ctrl-F10 then Escape causes keyboard to be unresponsive
- Make SL viewer updater show a progress bar so that people know how long to wait
- Can't double-click on groups in profile after changing your active title
- Getting multiple copies of texture dragged onto prim
- blue dialog's 'next' widget steals focus
- Audio should be encoded for upload at a 'good enough' quality rather than a user-selected bitrate
- multiple preview windows open for a single texture/snapshot saved inside a note card
- Enhance Viewer to support new Age Verification feature
- Rename crash setting to cause crash logger to come up for all residents
- Change crash logger "Remember this choice" function to default to on
- Rework Ban tab of floater_about_land
- Windows IME positioning fixed
- Viewer crashes in assert when playing Sword Strike animation
- Unable to set 'Group Access' for land that is also 'Public Access' (Was VWR-3667)
- Disable QuickTime when the installed version is less than version with RTSP exploit
- Move fullscreen message from login screen to viewer prefs
- linux client doesn't recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout)
- Search results window displays "s..." and "n..." instead of "searching..." and "none found"
- QuickTime disabled message can not be ignored
- Crash on login page when using Logitech LCD Keyboard
- SEC-17 Ability to Access Sculpted Prim Textures from Database without owning actual sculpt texture, allowing for people to "steal" sculpts.
- info window does not pop up when transitioning from a Havok1 to Havok4 region
- Repoint Report Bug... Viewer link to Pjira
Source changes:
- Upgrade Win32 libvorbis to v1.2
- VWR-2881: Bundled Mesa libs are not GPL compatible
- upgrade in-tree Linux GL headers to Mesa 7.x
- upgrade in-tree Win32 GL headers to version without SGI Free B license
- Rebuild and/or update libraries to use statically linked libs.
- Remove llfloaterhtmlhelp.cpp / h and floater_html_help.xml
Whew.
And quite possibly there will be more before the release takes place. Due to the sudden move to block 1.19.0(RC0), it's quite likely that the first intentional public release will be 1.19.0(RC1) instead.
