We’ve updated the Beta Test Grid with a preview of the next version of Second Life - 1.14.1. We are currently aiming to release this version next week, on Wednesday April 11th. (FYI:  this week’s downtime is for some maintenance work, but no new client or server code.)

We’ve been fortunate enough to have several server updates and optional viewer updates in the last few months without requiring everyone to update viewers at the same time. However, the 1.14.1 release changes the “message template” (client/server protocol) and hence will require an updated viewer.

In 1.14.1 there is a new LSL function, several fixes submitted by the open source community, and other bug fixes. The biggest changes, however, are hopefully (!) invisible, and involve the deprecating the overloaded back-end system responsible for group IM and Group chat and replacing them with more distributed and scalable counterparts.

There are several more bug fixes coming for 1.14.1, and we expect to post new viewers by Wednesday that represent the final change set for next week’s release.

Release notes with the changes in 1.14.1 so far follow…

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