We have come quite a ways with this merge, but there are still some issues left to address.
Unfortunately, I was taken ill a few days before Christmas and have still not fully recovered. Because of that, things are not happening as swiftly as I and everyone else could have wished for. Since my last report, a couple of issues have been addressed. Master is essentially usable for it's intended purpose, which is to test and develop against. At this time, we can't say for sure that there are no regressions, so master cannot be recommended for any kind of production use. But then, that has always been the case. One of the issues that cannot be easily fixed is the introduction of additional Visual Params by Linden Labs. Visual Params are essentially the sliders that the viewer uses for the shape and clothing manipulation. Since the last time this code was touched, Linden Labs has added some more Visual Params, to wit, the "physics" wearables. Master now supports these sliders, but adding this support uncovered a long standing bug in the code for sending the data to the viewer. Essentially, an array was accessed without bounds checking, resulting in red ink whenever an avatar from a sim running master enters a sim running an older version. The avatar will also remain a cloud in most cases where this happens. I have pushed a fix for this to 0.7.5-post fixes on git and users who compile their own can pick it up from there and update their 0.7.5 regions. Versions 0.7.4 and earlier have not received this fix and will not work with master regions anymore. I would ask all packagers who ship 0.7.5 to pull the patches from post-fixes and respin their distributions. Anyone still running 0.7.5 or lower is urgently requested to upgrade to this fixed 0.7.5 release as soon as possible. With everyone working together, we can make this transition as painless as possible for the metaverse. We have at this time decided not to make this a mandatory upgrade to avoid disruption of grids and HG destinations, but please do consider upgrading as soon as possible. - Melanie _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
