Oskar Linden

There is no promotion to main channel this week. There were issues in the RC channel code that we are fixing.   Second Life Server (main channel) No main channel upgrade this week. There will be no rolling restart.   2012-04-30, 5:00am: Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/12 Second Life RC BlueSteel This is a maint-server. It is the same that was on Magnum last week. It is now on all 3 RC channels. Features New PRIM_SLICE value can be used in llGetLinkPrimitiveParams() and similar functions to set the slice value for prims that support slice values. HTTP_BODY_MAXLENGTH has been added to llHTTPRequest() allowing return body sizes up to 4k for LSO and 16k for Mono scripts New LSL llGetRegionAgents() function returns a list of all agent keys on the region Bug Fixes SCR-15: Add flag parameter [vector slice] to llSetPrimitiveParams PRIM_TYPE flags PRIM_TYPE_BOX,PRIM_TYPE_CYLINDER, and PRIM_TYPE_PRISM SVC-680: Increase HTTP Response body size from 2048 to 4096 or larger SVC-5488: llGetRegionAgents() -- returns list of agent keys in the current region SVC-6894: Excessive EnableSimulator message spamming to viewers SVC-7307: creation of scripts gets a nice error SVC-7845: Group Notices not working on Magnum 12.04.13.253827 New Bug Fixes Fixed an issue with attachments.   2012-05-01, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/12   Second Life RC LeTigre Same as BlueSteel.   2012-05-01, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/12   Second Life RC Magnum Same as BlueSteel.   2012-05-01, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/12   We will be monitoring this thread during the next week 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   p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group  

We're not promoting any of the RC's. We'll skip the promotion this Tuesday and put updated code on the RC's on Wednesday.

Ayesha Askham wrote: @Oskar Are They? I just looked and all I see for the RCs is last week's roll details, not those slated for 25th April, which to me is still ( just) tomorrow. I'll look again in the morning.:smileyfrustrated: Edit: D'oh! I went back and looked again and there they were! I was a bit too quick off the mark (a novelty for me these days).:smileyembarrassed: Maybe you need a 30 minute submit button timer. :-) Every time you click submit on a forums post it give syou 30 minutes to cancel. :-D __Oskar

Release Notes are updated. __Oskar

We are deploying the Inventory API changes that were on BlueSteel and LeTigre last week. The avatar fly height will be raised to 5,000 meters for all regions.   Second Life Server (main channel) This contains the Inventory API changes that were on BlueSteel and LeTigre last week.  This channel has Inventory API changes. Improvements were made to the way inventory transactions are handled in order to improve scalability and reliability of inventory transfers.   2012-04-24, 5:00am: Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/12 Second Life RC BlueSteel Maint-Server with a simulator crash fix.   2012-04-25, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/12   Second Life RC LeTigre This is the same as BlueSteel and contains the simulator crash fix.   2012-04-25, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/12   Second Life RC Magnum This is a maint-server deploy. This is the same code that was on here last week with a fix for SVC-7845. New PRIM_SLICE value can be used in llGetLinkPrimitiveParams() and similar functions to set the slice value for prims that support slice values. HTTP_BODY_MAXLENGTH has been added to llHTTPRequest() allowing return body sizes up to 4k for LSO and 16k for Mono scripts New LSL llGetRegionAgents() function returns a list of all agent keys on the region Bug Fixes SCR-15: Add flag parameter [vector slice] to llSetPrimitiveParams PRIM_TYPE flags PRIM_TYPE_BOX, PRIM_TYPE_CYLINDER, and PRIM_TYPE_PRISM SVC-680: Increase HTTP Response body size from 2048 to 4096 or larger SVC-5488: llGetRegionAgents() -- returns list of agent keys in the current region SVC-6894: Excessive EnableSimulator message spamming to viewers SVC-7307: creation of scripts gets a nice error SVC-7845: Group Notices not working on Magnum 12.04.13.253827   2012-04-25, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/12   We will be monitoring this thread during the next week 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   p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group  

Perrie Juran wrote: "NOTE!: The avatar fly height will be set to 5,000m after the simulator deploy." With the changes to the fly height functions will flight feathers and other flight assist tools be no longer needed? What are the effects on their functions? Is it safe to take my parachute off now when I fly? You won't need flight feathers/assist tools anymore. Parachutes are optional. __Oskar

Whirly Fizzle wrote: Heya Oskar, The Magnum sandboxes dont appear to have the new fly height enabled (Magnum sandbox 1-4). Magnum Sandbox 3 is also poorly. Its throwing everyone who TP's in to 0,0,35 & we are unable to move to another location in the region at all. Tested at 1.19am SLT 19/04/2012 Yeah, they were getting griefed and I was trying to clean them up. __Oskar

WolfBaginski Bearsfoot wrote: It seems I am a bear of very little brain. I was confusing two different height limit things. It happens. No worries. I was confused too. That is why I tried being specific and call them 'avatar fly height' and 'parcel ban height'. __Oskar

Ayesha Askham wrote: @Teagan: Don't you get little "Your region will restart for maintenance in 5, 3, 2 and 1 minutes" messages? I know they are not as clear as they used to be in V1 viewers, but I haven't missed one yet. I use Firestorm FWIW. Any chance of improving those messages' visiblity, Oskar? I think there is a jira for improved visibility of server restart messages. __Oskar

WolfBaginski Bearsfoot wrote: That looks a very badly phrased way of saying things. The release notes apparently say something quite different. For me, this whole topic is on william tare fox status. What was badly phrased? __Oskar

Teagan Tobias wrote: When I log into SL, most of the time I start at the grid status page. Sometimes there will be a message something like this: We will be performing rolling restarts for regions on the Magnum, BlueSteel, and LeTigre RC server channels shortly. Please save all builds and refrain from rezzing no copy objects or making inworld L$ transactions. But if I do not check and I just start SL viewer, there is no mention that this is taking place. How about a little flashing box or something that just says “server updates”. If you click it you are taken to the grid status page, and that could save you some potential problems. Well we've done releases every Tuesday and Wednesday mornings for more than a year now. Look at your calendar when logging in. If it's Tuesday or Wednesday morning we'll be doing a release. __Oskar p.s. I see your schwartz is as big as mine.

I have update the release notes. The most interesting thing to note is that after the deploy we are raising the avatar fly height to 5,000 meters on each of the RC channels. Keep an eye out for fly related issues on the RC channels. __Oskar

Ayesha Askham wrote: @Oskar That's a tad Gnomish, even for you!:catwink: Is there a pingtime issue with UK connections then?:catsurprised: No UK connection issues other than me teasing my overseas friends. :matte-motes-sunglasses-3: __Oskar

Ayesha Askham wrote: One oddity did occur yesterday with a serious rezzing from inventory and taking to inventory problems, which affected me and one other (also UK based) avatar. Oh you're from the UK. /me starts noticing a pattern. :robotwink:

Teleport problems? All over SL? I need specific reproducible bugs to have something to fix. I believe you that you experienced failed teleports but that can be really all sorts of things. It could have been transient network issues on the client end. It could have been transient network issues on our end. It could have local issues on the client machine. It could have been server issues. The only thing that I can help with is when specific reproducible bugs are found. I can have the development team focus on these to get fixed. If you can show me that there is a bug in new RC code it's even faster that we can get a fix out. I'm looking at the graphs for the metrics we gather for TP success and the graph looks very stable over the weekend. It looks just as stable as it did the week before and as stable as it has been the last two days. There is no new code this week to address the issues you are seeing because we aren't seeing the same issues. To fix bugs we have to have issues to fix and TP success rates according to our metrics are not failing at a level that warrants closer inspection. I'm sorry for your experiences. I hope you can understand our position not to fix what doesn't appear to be broken. __Oskar

We have nothing to promote this week because all of the RC's were on trunk last week. We will have code ready for the RC's this Wednesday. There will be no code promotion Tuesday morning.   On the RC's we will be doing something new after the simulator deploy. We have a new system that allows us to modify simulator configs outside of a regular deploy schedule. We will use that _after_ the simulator deploy to set the avatar fly height to 5,000m. We are setting that onto the RC's only. That way we can observe behaviour of existing objects that might behave differently based on the changed avatar fly height limits.   Second Life Server (main channel) There is no promotion this week.   2012-04-17, 5:00am: Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/12 Second Life RC BlueSteel This channel has Inventory API changes. Improvements were made to the way inventory transactions are handled in order to improve scalability and reliability of inventory transfers.   NOTE!: The avatar fly height will be set to 5,000m after the simulator deploy.   2012-04-18, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/12   Second Life RC LeTigre This has the same Inventory API changes that are on BlueSteel.   NOTE!: The avatar fly height will be set to 5,000m after the simulator deploy.   2012-04-18, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/12   Second Life RC Magnum This is a maint-server deploy.  New PRIM_SLICE value can be used in llGetLinkPrimitiveParams() and similar functions to set the slice value for prims that support slice values. HTTP_BODY_MAXLENGTH has been added to llHTTPRequest() allowing return body sizes up to 4k for LSO and 16k for Mono scripts New LSL llGetRegionAgents() function returns a list of all agent keys on the region Bug Fixes SCR-15: Add flag parameter [vector slice] to llSetPrimitiveParams PRIM_TYPE flags PRIM_TYPE_BOX, PRIM_TYPE_CYLINDER, and PRIM_TYPE_PRISM SVC-680: Increase HTTP Response body size from 2048 to 4096 or larger SVC-5488: llGetRegionAgents() -- returns list of agent keys in the current region SVC-6894: Excessive EnableSimulator message spamming to viewers SVC-7307: creation of scripts gets a nice error   NOTE!: The avatar fly height will be set to 5,000m after the simulator deploy.   2012-04-18, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/12   We will be monitoring this thread during the next week 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   p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group  

Ok, I updated the main notes. __Oskar

There was some confusion this week. Some wires were crossed. I am attempting to uncross them now. __Oskar

Triple Peccable wrote: There is nothing new to roll to those RCs. They are running the same code as BlueSteel was last week, and they are going to keep that code. The only difference is they are going to enable the 5000m fly limit for explicitly banned avatars, which does not require a rolling restart. Exactly what Triple said. __Oskar

This is something else. This is moving the ban height for parcels to 5000 meters. This doesn't affect the fly height of unassisted avatars. We are working on a change for that behaviour as well, but it isn't ready yet. __Oskar

We were going to promote the Threaded Region Crossing code to main channel this week but ran into some issues with it while readying it for promotion. We are instead promoting the maint-server that was on BlueSteel and LeTigre. We will however only enable the new fly limits on the RC channels. This will give some time for people to get used to them.   There was some confusion in the communications this week and I apologize. I have attempted to clear that up below. We had intended to modify the unassisted avatar fly height for RC regions only (not the parcel ban height) using a new config change delivery method but are unable to do that this week. We wanted to give people with fly assist tools the ability to check their behaviour on RC regions. We will do that next week instead.   Second Life Server (main channel) This is a "maint-server" project. The explicit ban height for parcels is being raised to 5000m. This means that avatars that are explicitly banned from a parcel can not enter them unless they are at least 5000m above ground. This allows high-altitude fly-overs as before, but they must be done at a much higher altitude. Bug Fixes SCR-6 "llGetSubString can produce results that crash Mono scripts" SCR-281 "recent release to agni (12.02.06.248938 I think) breaks llDeleteSubstring behaviour." Removed old unused server code. Fixed several server crash modes. 2012-04-10, 5:00am: Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/12 Second Life RC BlueSteel This is the same code as main channel.  The explicit ban height for parcels is at 5000m. Fly height is unchanged.   2012-04-11, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/12   Second Life RC LeTigre This is the same code as main channel.  The explicit ban height for parcels is at 5000m. Fly height is unchanged.   2012-04-11, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/12   Second Life RC Magnum This is the same code as main channel. The explicit ban height for parcels is at 5000m. Fly height is unchanged.   2012-04-11, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/12   We will be monitoring this thread during the next week 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   p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group  

It has been a few weeks but we are getting a updated code onto the main channel this week. Second Life Server (main channel) This is a "Maint-Server" branch. This was on BlueSteel and LeTigre last week. No new features. This release is focused on internal stability with networking code. Modified existing throttles and caps on network traffic. Bug Fixes Several fixes for certain crashmodes involved with SVC-7713 "sim crashes all avatars on sim (dosent restart but crash all viewers) multiple times a day" 2012-04-03, 5:00am: Release Notes: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Server/12 Second Life RC BlueSteel This is a new "maint-server" project. The explicit ban height for parcels is being raised to 5000m. This means that avatars that are explicitly banned from a parcel can not enter them unless they are at least 5000m above ground. This allows high-altitude fly-overs as before, but they must be done at a much higher altitude. Bug Fixes SCR-6 "llGetSubString can produce results that crash Mono scripts" SCR-281 "recent release to agni (12.02.06.248938 I think) breaks llDeleteSubstring behaviour." Removed old unused server code. Fixed several server crash modes.   2012-04-04, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_BlueSteel/12   Second Life RC LeTigre This will get the same maint-server code as is on BlueSteel   2012-04-04, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_LeTigre/12   Second Life RC Magnum This will continue to host the Threaded Region Crossing Phase One code.   2012-04-04, 7-11:00am: Release Notes:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_RC_Magnum/12   We will be monitoring this thread during the next week 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   p.s. If you are interested in helping test SecondLife in beta please join the group "Second Life Beta" in-world. We also have an email list where we communicate upcoming projects and how you can help. (https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/server-beta ) Once a week we meet on ADITI to discuss new features, new bugs, new fixes, and other fun stuff. You are more than welcome. Information is here:https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Server_Beta_User_Group  

We are promoting the "maint-server" branch on BlueSteel and LeTigre next week. __Oskar

I also had a very weird sim crossing today. It wasn't on the Magnum code either. I appreciate your help in trying to narrow things down to specific code. __Oskar

The release notes are updated and posted. Most interesting is a fix for SVC-7713. Or at least a fix for certain crashmodes involved with that bug. - https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7713 __Oskar