SecondLife 1.19.0.x is no longer an RC

Last evening LindenLabs finally took the 1.19.0.4 client that many of us have been sing in Release Candidate form for some time now and gave it an official release. There are some nice fixes, but they have definitely published some changes that are pissing people off. (I would have blogged it last night but the announcement was kind of buried on the blog and I didn’t see it until I fired up Thunderbird to check my RSS feeds this morning.)

To add insult to injury, there were some security issues in the 1.19.0.4 release, so they quickly pushed out version 1.19.0.5 to fix them, as well as some annoying issues from early RC versions that hadn’t gotten fixed yet.

Envy gets ready to kill off Legacy and roll out NG

Sunday I blogged about the upcoming EnvyNG for Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron”, and the developer has rolled out an update to Envy Legacy to get things ready for the release of EnvyNG.

Nightly Firefox users left asking “Where’s the DOM?”

While most of us have no use for the DOM Inspector for Mozilla Firefox, web designers and other programmers have come to love it. Unfortunately Mozilla decided that they would stop including it beginning with the upcoming beta four for Firefox 3.

Mozilla releases Thunderbird 2.0.0.12

[Corrected the program name in the post title. D'oh! - Peng]

Yesterday Mozilla released another security and stability update for their email client, making Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 now available. Due to some security fixes, this upgrade is strongly recommended for all Thunderbird users.

Once more with feeling: SecondLife pushes out Release Client 4 for their version 1.19.0 viewer

LindenLabs is ever so close to releasing the SecondLife 1.19.0 software to everyone, but they fixed a few more bugs and want to try a fifth Release Candidate before officially releasing 1.196.0. (They started with RC0, which is why the fifth RC is numbered RC4 rather than number five.)

As we’ve said before, RC4 is test software and not to be used by the general public yet. There are still bugs that could cause major problems, (Blahblah softwaretestercakes.)

Ubuntu names version 8.10

[UPdated to reflect the proper event that triggered the start of planning on Ubuntu 8.10. - Peng-

With Ubuntu Hardy getting past the feature-freeze point Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name for the following version of Ubuntu.

Envy and Java updates

I’ve been meaning to write about some updates for Envy, that uber tool for installing graphics drivers in Linux, but I keep closing Thunderbird before remembering to write. There’s also a new plugin coming for Java, but you’ll need to use Firefox 3 to get the benefits of it.

SecondLife does it again. There’s yet another Release Candidate available

Ignoring their history of problems following software releases on Fridays, LindenLabs released RC3 of the SecondLife 1.19.0 this evening.

Mozilla Firefox: Over half a billion served

Last night someone snagged the 500 millionth download of Mozilla Firefox, reaching one hell of a milestone. But it’s not all champagne and caviar (or Dew and Hot Pockets, if you’d prefer), because they’ve hooked up with FreeRice.com to turn their celebration into a way to help a great cause.

This week’s SecondLife rolling restarts get moved to straddle the weekend

On Tuesday I posted that Linden Labs has released a test version of their new Dazzle UI upgrade. I also included a schedule for rolling restarts to push some new code out to all the servers, but in what is becoming more frequent lately they found some serious problems in the code only after they started pushing out the updates. As a result the rolling restarts scheduled to end today have been rescheduled to Friday and Monday.