SecondLife is getting ready to roll out Dazzle, but there’s a workaround for the biggest complaint

The latest round of Release Candidates for the SecondLife viewer have been including the Dazzle “skin”, and yesterday they rolled out Release Candidate Viewer 1.20 RC5. Along with all of the other complaints about the new series of RC, including why haven’t they fixed the invisible skirt issue, one issue seems to be almost unanimously hated: The Dazzle skin is fugly! Luckily there’s a way to get rid of the hideous Dazzle skin.

SL on invisible skirts issue: It’s a network problem

[Updated to include a link to the JIRA bug. - Nanci]

Pastrami Linden addressed the issue with regular (non-prim) skirts being invisible in his recent Windlight Office Hours. According to Zen it turns out it’s a networking problem with packet loss. Sorry, but that sounds like a bunch of hooey to this girl.

Did you get the newest SecondLife client? You’ll need it as of Wednesday.

At the tail end of February SecondLife released it’s version 1.19.0.x clients as an optional release. But as if tomorrow it will be required. Updated 6:55 PM EDT Wed 12 Mar: They’ve decided to postpone the requirement of the 1.19.0 client until the 1.19.1 version comes out in 2-3 weeks. Get more info in the original SL blog post (link below).

Windlight is now a Release Candidate!

I wasn’t able to get on SecondLife yesterday, but today I found out some awesome news! SecondLife has taken the most recent First Look Windlight client, updated a few things, fixed a few bugs, and presto! We have SecondLife 1.19.1 RC0, complete with Windlight!

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.)

Dazzle returns to SeoncdLife. Sort of.

Back in November I wrote about the technology preview that came out of Linden Lab’s Dazzle project. Today Torley Linden announced that Dazzle was back, but this time in a First Look client. Color me a lovely WindLight-esque shade of Tickled Pink. Not.

They also have some server updates and rolling restarts coming, but it’s not for the current Release Candidate. Updated Thursday, 21 February at 8:00 pm: The rollout schedule for the new code has been changed. Rather than updating this new post to reflect the new schedule see this post for the updated schedule.

Lindens bring out two more test versions of SecondLife

Before the week closed the devs at Linden Labs rolled out another new 1.19.0  Release Client, as well as a new Windlight First Look client based on the new RC code.

SecondLife rolls out new Windlight preview

Earlier this morning I posted that there was a new SecondLife Release Candidate, and now I’m happy to say that they’ve rolled out a new preview of their Windlight client that includes the 1.19.0 code.

Apple gets a QuickTime update out

Earlier this month I wrote about a QuickTime flaw that forced SecondLife to recommend that everyone disable video streams except from trusted sources. I’m glad to be able to report that Apple has put out am update to QuickTime that closes this vulnerability and SecondLife is getting ready to help make sure you’re protected.

The Lindens have been BUSY!

… and I don’t mean the income from my store. Linden Labs has released three new goodies for SecondLife that has a lot of us pretty darned happy.