Hot on the heels of a Second Life 1.17.1 Optional Viewer release on Monday, we’ll be releasing Second Life 1.18.0 on Wednesday, June 27th, assuming final testing goes well. The release will require downtime from 6am-12noon PDT (13:00-19:00 GMT), and new viewers will be required.

Second Life 1.18 will incorporate all of the fixes in 1.17.1, of course, but the big change in 1.18 is that the nefarious “message template” is frozen. I’ll let Zero Linden speak to that in an upcoming blog post, but it’s good news all around and cause for much celebration.

The Beta Test Grid page has been updated to include 1.18 viewers for download viewers for testing.  Preliminary release notes follow…

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