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    Emergency Server Deploy Tonight

    in Second Life Server

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    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

    Deploys for the Week of 2011-03-14

    in Second Life Server

    Posted

     

    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
    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. 
    Second Life RC LeTigre
    This is a maint-server branch that contains a few minor bug fixes and security patches.
    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.

     

    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

    Deploys for the Week of 2011-03-07

    in Second Life Server

    Posted

    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

    Deploys for the Week of 2011-03-07

    in Second Life Server

    Posted

    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.
    Second Life RC BlueSteel
    This branch will stay the same and get a merge from trunk with a possible bug fix.
    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. 
    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.

     

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