Second Life releases new version with 1.19.0 RC0

Linden Lab has come out with the newest Release Candidate for Second Life with 1.19.0. This new version features a host of bug and security issue fixes as well as reverts back to the same XUI-based login code in the previous version. You can check out the rather extensive changelog of the game in the full article.

With the release of the new version of Second Life, a lot of changes were implemented since the last build with version 1.18.5.3. The virtual life MMO game has recently released the new 1.19.0 RC0, which is now available on the Second Life website.

The game reverted back to the same XUI-based login code in the previous version. Also, the new release also addresses the QuickTime security issue noted last December, as well as the updates that require QuickTime v7.4.

In any case, here’s the extensive list of changes in the 1.19.0 RC0 of Second Life:

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.

Linux

• VWR-210: Voice Support on Linux (EXPERIMENTAL) – see README-linux-voice.txt

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

Bug fixes include

• SVC-750: Avatar sitting on a prim no longer able to be manipulated with llSetLinkPrimitiveParam Included in the list by mistake, thanks DC!
• SVC-930: Prims set for sale – prices are incorrectly set when multiple prims taken to inventory and rezzed
• SVC-1125: New Search: Beacons arent shown when teleporting to regions with Allow Direct Teleport disabled
• VWR-1125: Clicking Title Bar While Mouselookd 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 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 avatars 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 doesnt reflect disabled status if voice isnt 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 clien 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 = Couldnt match GPU to a class,Setting GPU Class to Class0
• VWR-2483: the macviewer.xcodeprj file doesnt create stripped binaries on Deployment or Universal
• VWR-250: Preedit (composition) strings are shown poorly when typing Japanese text on Windows
• 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 lastest 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-289: URLs for video media streaming need to be URL-encoded or stream doesnt work
• VWR-2959: Windows (Visual Studio) solution file refers to a non-existing project Cbuild_all
• VWR-3088: Unchecking CAutomatic Appearance Camera Movement%u201D 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-356: Move delete to the bottom of context menus, separated by spacer
• 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
• VWR-412: Object editing arrows hidden but clickable on objects you cant edit.
• 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 Clook 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 doesnt 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 CForgot 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 doesnt work
• Sanitize floater sizing behavior when SL window is made very small
• Animation wont stop if avatar teleports while animated
• Cant 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
• Cant double-click on groups in profile after changing your active title
• Getting multiple copies of texture dragged onto prim
• blue dialogs 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 recognise that a viewer is already running (slurl crapout)
• Search results window displays Cs and Cn instead of searching and none found
• QuickTime disabled message can not be ignored
• Crash on login page when using Logitech LCD Keyboard
• 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

The Release Candidate viewers are all optional updates that contain all the bug fixes and new features. In any case, you can take a look at the Via link to download the newly released version of Second Life.