Release Notes/Second Life Release/2.6.9



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Release Notes for SL Viewer v2.6.9 (231165) - Second Life Release

Released May 31, 2011


Crash and Performance Fixes



Enhancements



Bug Fixes



Translation and Localization Updates



Source and Build Changes


Known Issues

   


DNS Error May Prevent Login for Mac OSX

  • EXP-772 [PUBLIC] Log in failure, keeps saying DNS cannot resolve hostname -and- EXP-687 Second Life viewer will not work on my laptop - A possible workaround is to add the free Google DNS servers to your network configuration, as described below.
Open 'System Preferences' -> 'Network' -> 'Advanced...' -> 'DNS'
Click "+" and type 8.8.8.8
Click "+" and type 8.8.4.4
Close 'System Preferences'
Restart Second Life

Crash when Deferred Rendering is Enabled

  • SH-1064 Crash in LLVertexBuffer::setupVertexBuffer - Reminder: In this release, Deferred Rendering is still experimental functionality and is not supported.


Supported Viewers

   

With this release, we support Second Life Viewer versions 2.6.9 (231165), 2.6.8 (230359), and 1.23 (1.23.5), and Second Life Beta Viewer version 2.7.0 (230551). For more information, please go to the Supported Viewers wiki page.