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    No More Weekly Release Plan Threads, More Blog Posts

    in Second Life Server

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    Due to the frequency of Second Life Server updates, the presence of a regular schedule and availability of release notes, we will no longer be publishing weekly release plan threads in the Second Life Server forum. To compensate for this, we will be publishing more blog posts such as the Spring 2023 Scripting Summary and smaller posts when new functionality is introduced. This is intended to strike a better balance between communicating meaningful changes and pushing paper around while allowing SL to share release contents more broadly. This does not mean that we will never publish threads with details on notable server releases, nor that residents cannot discuss releases on their own.

    Second Life rolls out updates to Grid almost every week. We host a weekly in-world Server user group meeting to discuss changes and publish release notes to releasenotes.secondlife.com. In-world user group meetings and published release notes may seem like an acceptable level of engagement to some of our residents, but we believe we can better serve the community with more frequent blog posts that provide greater insight into the features and fixes we are releasing and are not as easily lost in internet forum ephemera.

    Apologies for the delay in getting a decision communicated, and thanks for highlighting when we are not meeting expectations. If you have ideas on how to better share release news, questions or concerns please let us know below.

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    Shutting Down LSL XML-RPC

    in LSL Scripting

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    We've been threatening to do this for 16 years... Second Life will be ending support for LSL's long deprecated XML-RPC methods later this year. Full information here:

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    Running LSL scripts that use XML-RPC functionality will continue to function to the extent they can with XML-RPC functions no longer doing anything. If you have functionality that depends on XML-RPC, please migrate your scripts and supporting services to HTTP-In.

    If you have questions or concerns feel free to attend the Simulator User Group meeting, held Tuesdays, 12:00 PM Pacific in Denby.

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    🐛 Help wanted: Compare Agni and Aditi Inventory Behavior (February 27th - March 6th)

    in Second Life Server

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    17 hours ago, Andred Darwin said:

    I didn't notice anything while trying it out (transfers, mod/transfer only seems normal), but, with this new work, will something be done to prevent loss of inventory when trying to rez an item that is not copy, in a land that you cannot rez?  (Happens by mistake, I guess quite a lot... just happened to me at Morris, I was on a small parcel owned by Dan Linden, and accidentally tried to rez an item with an alternate avatar.... dropped outside the parcel (where rez is not enabled)... and its gone... item name "Mod Only") . Ideally, that should at least return to Lost & Found or the viewer prevent the user from rezzing. 

    Fully agree here that this needs to be dealt with better --but it'll be better to make changes to behavior as part of another release. By keeping platform upgrades separate from changes to functionality we can more easily ensure there's no regressions in inventory behavior. We have a lot of tickets pertaining to no-copy items going missing under various circumstances. I can't promise a priority, but content loss is taken seriously. I'll make a note to bring up the no-copy loss problem area internally.

    🐛 Help wanted: Compare Agni and Aditi Inventory Behavior (February 27th - March 6th)

    in Second Life Server

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    13 hours ago, Whirly Fizzle said:

    Just to clarify, Are you saying that all agents on Aditi, no matter what region they are on, are using the updated AIS?
    Or are Aditi agents only using the updated AIS if they are on one of the cloud sandbox regions or Morris sandbox on Aditi?

     

    Your first assumption is correct: all agents on Aditi are using updated AIS. I've modified the instructions a bit, any region will do, but the Cloud Sandbox regions are running some commodity RC builds. Thanks. :)

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    🐛 Help wanted: Compare Agni and Aditi Inventory Behavior (February 27th - March 6th)

    in Second Life Server

    Posted · Edited by Signal Linden

    We are working on improvements to the inventory service and need help testing on Aditi. Specifically, we are interested in any new variation in behavior between Agni and Aditi.

    Instructions

    1. Log on to the beta grid. For details on how to access Aditi, see instructions here.
    2. (Optional) Visit one of the "Cloud Sandbox" regions, or the Morris sandbox. All regions on Aditi work against the new AIS, but using one of these will keep you on a standard release channel.
    3. Start testing everyday operations that impact Second Life inventory - update/copy/modify items, change outfits, give an object to another Resident, etc. Compare your results with the production grid (Agni)

    If you find issues or unexpected behavior that is different from what you experience on the production grid, file a Jira issue! The window for this testing period is now until March 6th.

    Technical details

    Second Life's agent inventory service (AIS) handles all agent inventory operations that happen in Second Life. It is comprised of a large Django application hosting multiple API versions (v1 to v3) which have been deprecated for years yet never fully excised. In preparation for new feature work and, ultimately, moving clients off of the deprecated API versions, AIS is receiving some sorely needed framework and python version upgrades.

    Considering how critical AIS is to in-world experience, we are giving its upgraded version an extended soak time on Aditi. Help vetting the upgrade is welcome!

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    Deploy Plan for the Week of 2023-01-30 (Updated Feb 1 @ 11AM)

    in Second Life Server

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    If anyone wants to give the new llHMAC , llVerifyRSA, llSignRSA and expanded llGetSimStats LSL functions a shake on Aditi, the next release candidate build has been provisioned to the following regions:

    - Cloud Sandbox 2
    - Cloud Sandbox 3
    - Cloud Sandbox 4

    Release notes are the same as 2023-01-27.577942, but there is a different build ID, replete with fixes for the bug that caused Wednesday's RC rollback.

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    Will we ever have new releases announced on this thread again?

    in Second Life Server

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    Release notes threads haven't been abandoned but you're right: we've missed recent weeks'. Expect to see more threads in 2023. As a reminder, you can always find release notes at https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/index.html. Thanks for noticing and highlighting their absence though, threads provide a good home for conversation about the contents of the release notes, and often their human-friendly summary is more useful than a list of ticket numbers and titles.

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