According to an announcement by Linden Lab, the SLS1.24 (version 1.24 of the Second Life server/simulator code) rollout to servers is happening right now. While Linden Lab have normally given at least a little advance notice, and a schedule for the server-side software updates (which can be disruptive), no such notice or schedule were published. All we have been told is that it will "take a number of days"; we assume that is probably different to the usual three-day schedule. Actually, if you haven't been reading Massively lately, this whole update probably comes as a complete surprise.
As we mentioned previously, the 1.21 release candidate viewer that you'll need in order to take full advantage of this release isn't due until next week, though you can probably access the Mono functionality with the preview grid viewers -- just remember to change the grid target to -grid agni in order to access the main grid.
Patch notes are after the jump.
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Release Notes for Second Life Server 1.24
Changes:
- Mono is an alternate way to run ordinary LSL scripts. It has advantages of speed and memory management over the current script engine. For more information about Mono see the wiki article: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Mono.
- Note: Although no special viewer is needed to run Mono scripts, to create them you will need a viewer version of 1.21 or later.
- The 1.21 Release Candidate Viewer is expected to be available the week of August 25th.
- Enabled group moderation features for voice chat.
Changes that require both 1.24 Server and 1.21 Viewer (not yet released):
- New LSL calls for touch "position" in the touch_start(), touch(), and touch_end() events. Each touch() event provides the current surface point data (allowing grabbing, sliders, levers, and all sorts of pseudo GUI builds!):
- llDetectedTouchUV() - returns the UV coordinates of the point touched.
- llDetectedTouchFace() - returns the face of the point touched.
- llDetectedTouchPos() - returns the world coordinates of the point touched.
- llDetectedTouchNormal() - returns the surface normal of the point touched.
- llDetectedTouchBinormal() - returns the surface bi-normal of the point touched.
- llDetectedTouchST() - call to query surface coordinates.
- New feature to return all objects on an estate
- MISC-713: Add "Return All Objects" as an estate-wide feature for a specified resident
- New info added:
- Add Time Stamp to Parcel Object List
- Add Time Stamp to Top Scripts Colliders List
- Add more categories to Help -> Report Abuse..
Fixes:
- Three security fixes
The deployment of SLS1.24 has been put on hold, as some issues have apparently cropped up with the new code. Considering the way the last few update deployments have gone, this should not come as a surprise. As yet, no information is available about the nature of the problems (nor is it likely to be) but the database issues experienced earlier today are very likely to be related.
