Oskar Linden

The maintenance has finished. Thanks for your patience. __Oskar

We are in the process of doing some rack migration work in our Phoenix facility. Some regions might be restarted.   __Oskar

This was a security issue and on principle we only discuss them after they are patched. This was a patch to fix a content theft hole. Had we mentioned that before, then everyone who knew of the exploit would have worked like made to exploit it while it was still exploitable. It's happened before. All seems well on the grid now and hopefully we can have a nice peaceful St Patricks Day and a weekend with no more security patches and no more rolling restarts. Next Tuesday/Wednesday will resume the regularly scheduled upgrades. __Oskar

Milano, I'm sorry you weren't notified. I was not aware of this Concierge Channel and I apologize that it was not notified. I asked Concierge to look into it. __Oskar

It will require a restart for all regions. It is happening now. __Oskar

We are doing an emergency server deploy to the entire grid tonight. This was unplanned, but warranted. I can post more details when we are finished. This will take most of the rest of the evening. This will affect all regions and all channels.   __Oskar

It looks like Maestro has commented on that Jira. __Oskar

I updated the LeTigre page with information about this release. It's a really tiny release with just a few minor bug fixes and security patches. - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11 __Oskar

Sorry about that Pauline. The release guys are fixing it as we speak. __Oskar

  Second Life Server (main channel) We have promoted Andrew's "maint-server" project from LeTigre. This includes assorted server enhancements and maintennance bug fixes. We have fixed a few simulator crash modes as well as security fixes. The following jiras are fixed in this release: SVC-1144: replies to offline emails can't contain unicode SVC-5959: Groups notices sent to email do not identify sender SVC-6713: Region "0 0 2" not allowing TP access (even as god) SVC-6709: Delete objects on owned land stopped working since recent server-updates SVC-412: Include proper character encoding header in the messages forwarded from second life 2011-03-15, 5:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11 Second Life RC BlueSteel This branch features updates to our IP management tools. There has been a persistent and reliable crasher that we have verified. This issue has been identified, resolved, and fixed.  2011-03-16, 8:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/11 Second Life RC LeTigre This is a maint-server branch that contains a few minor bug fixes and security patches. 2011-03-16, 9:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11 Second Life RC Magnum This channel will keep the "Estate Transfer Limits" project for round 2. We are merging in more estates that have the potential to be impacted by this into the Magnum channel to have a more significant impact. This project implements adjusted behaviour limiting L$, IM, and object transfer for accounts who are limited to estates. 2011-03-16, 10:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/11   We will be monitoring this thread during the next two days so please feel free to post issues that you feel have been introduced by the new code. Please file a JIRA for issues you find and post the JIRA link into this thread. It really helps us out. When determining if issues are relevant or not research is key. Tracking down exactly the right situation where an issue is occurring greatly speeds up the development process to get fixes in place.   I appreciate your help. Have a good week!   __Oskar   [[ UPDATE ]] Because of a content theft security exploit we have patched all 4 channels to be running the same code: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11#11.03.16.224235

These are the wiki pages that we have: - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Beta/Magnum - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Beta/LeTigre - http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Beta/BlueSteel Things on the server side of things will by their very nature be more technical. I do try to describe things in ways that are easier to understand. Those pages link to the release notes for each project that we have on the live grid. __Oskar

The Magnum code that we promoted this week has been around for a few weeks on AGNI. The changes were minimal and we don't foresee any issues. That being said please bring any critical issues to my attention. __Oskar

Release information will be posted here: - http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Release/bd-p/Release The wiki page was a temporary solution to continue connunication during the forum/blog upgrade. __Oskar

Thanks for getting this started Hitomi. My home internet connection died last night and I had to make an unplanned 5am trip into the office this morning just so that I could have access to make these posts. I put the official one here: - http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Release/Deploys-for-the-Week-of-2011-03-07/td-p/731755 __Oskar

Second Life Server (main channel) This is getting the "server-maint" project from the Magnum Channel. This branch contains various bug fixes including {{jira|SVC-6781}}: "Duplicating old attachments does not copy attachment point/position/rotation info". Some people may notice a slight improvement in regions with heavy object creation/deletion. 2011-03-08, 5:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/11 Second Life RC BlueSteel This branch will stay the same and get a merge from trunk with a possible bug fix. merged with the "server-maint" project form trunk. 2011-03-09, 8:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/11 Second Life RC LeTigre This will get Andrew's "maint-server" branch. There was a bug during the deploy last week that is fixed. This branch contains several bug fixes, some security fixes, some fixed crash modes, and various performance enhancements.  2011-03-09, 9:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/11 Second Life RC Magnum This channel will get the "Estate Transfer Limits" project. This project implements adjusted behaviour limiting L$, IM, and object transfer for accounts who are limited to estates. 2011-03-09, 10:00am: Rolling Restart - Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/11  

We have only just finished the upgrade to this new system. I appreciate your patience. Contrary to popular belief I post a lot of information and host many opportunities for idea exchange. You are welcome to join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world and attend my weekly usergroup: - https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group __Oskar

I can and do dole out the L$ on ADITI for testing purposes all the time. I'll make sure that every account on ADITI has enough 'moola' to test mesh when the time comes. __Oskar