Second Life 1.12.2(6) now on the Beta Test Grid

It was actually updated yesterday but the dataserver was misconfigured and so some services were misbehaving. That’s been corrected, so come over to the Beta Test Grid and check it out.

Since the last announcement about 1.12.2(5) we’ve only made two changes which have been under testing in-house for quite some time:

• Tweaks to the gray goo fence to limit false detection of goo
• Changes to reduce the occurence of the “gray avatar” and “missing image avatar” issues

For those keeping track, we postponed the release last week when we saw large numbers of the gray/missing image avatar issues on the Beta Test grid while the main grid was down for the deploy. We have subsequently determined that the issues were, in fact, in already present on the main grid but a number of factors caused the frequency of the occurence to be much higher on the preview grid. These include low viewer frame rates due to a busy location, crossing region boundaries, logging in only once, and never having logged into a grid before.

Several developers have been focused on this issue since last week to identify the cause of the problems and the fixes. We have staged the roll-out of the fixes, with the lowest risk changes coming first, which do dramatically reduce the occurence of the bugs, and ensuring that when the bugs occur the bad appearance can be corrected by re-logging rather than becoming permanently stuck. We will be making additional fixes in future releases, hopefully without requiring viewer updates.