Viewer merges - Ansariel Hiller

This page shows all changes since the Firestorm Release 6.6.8.68380.
If you are updating from an earlier version than 6.6.8, see HERE for previous release notes.

New changes since the previous 6.6.9.68580 Beta are marked with a

A maintenance update including:

• NEW FEATURE Added a new Preferences option to hear media & sounds from avatar or camera position
  Preferences → Sounds & Media → Sounds → Hear media & sounds from → Camera Position / Avatar Position
  This feature was requested in BUG-232338

• Searching Preferences will now include all the text in Notification Alerts.
• Inventory - Paste of No Copy objects will be available in context menus, but No Copy enforcement remains intact.
• Added Windows support for absolute mouse positioning, for virtual machines and touch screens
• Renamed “Obscure MOAP” to “Restrict MOAP to this parcel” in World → Parcel Details → Sound - BUG-232396
• Fixed Marketplace window freezing when loading items from Inventory - BUG-230727
• Fixed having to leave a group more than once to actually leave the group - BUG-232540
• Fixed Japanese IME not working correctly on Windows - FIRE-32047, BUG-232620
• Many crash fixes!

• NOTE: Maintenance - P includes changes to the sort order of alpha blended, rigged mesh attachments.
  From this viewer version onwards, alpha blended rigged mesh attachments will be sorted by the priority assigned to each attachment point.
  For example, the Chest attachment ID is 1 and is treated with highest priority
  For details see the Linden Lab blog post Second Life Viewer Maintenance 6.6.8.576863 and Beq Janus's blog post Alpha blend issues? Get them sorted.

• Linden Lab Maintenance - P Release Notes:6.6.8.576863 - Maintenance Preferences, Positions and Paste fixes
  Nat Linden, Vir Linden, Signal Linden, AndreyK ProductEngine, Maxim ProductEngine, AndreyL ProductEngine

A maintenance update including: Groups now show recent chat when they first open up. See https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/12652-coming-soon-to-a-viewer-near-you-group-chat-history/ for the details.

Now building with VS2022, future proofing the future.

Estate owners may now restrict scripted agents from entry. More details here: https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/entry/13061-new-feature-scripted-agent-estate-access/

Users with Windows Mouse Keys accessibility enabled will no longer have their mouse pointers jumping around randomly.

For those curious about their object permissions, Slam bits have made a triumphant return from the dead! Find out more about slam bits here: https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Debug_Permissions

Users have been so good at causing crashes so we’ve become better at fixing them. Said crash fixes are included here!

• DRTVWR-570-maint-Q - https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.6.9.577968.html
• DRTVWR-573-maint-R - https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.6.10.579060.html (includes VS2022 & Nicky's cmake stuff)

https://releasenotes.secondlife.com/viewer/6.6.8.576310.html (VS2022/cmake)
DRTVWR-543-maint Viewer Maintenance - UX fixes

• NEW FEATUREAdded new Stream Title floater and track history
  The Stream Title floater is a small window that shows the artist name & song title of the currently playing parcel music stream
  If the window is resized very small, the track info will constantly scroll
  Hovering over the track info will show the full song title and artist name in a tooltip
  The History button opens a list of all the recently played music tracks
  This feature idea was taken from Kokua Viewer and rewritten for Firestorm
  Top menu bar → World → Stream Title
  Ansariel Hiller, Chorazin Allen (Kokua)

• NEW FEATUREAdded an inventory filter for coalesced objects
  This feature was requested in FIRE-31369
  Inventory → Show additional options gear → Only Coalesced
  Zi Ree

• IMPROVEMENTLinux - Use system wide fontconfig and freetype instead of 3p libraries
  fontconfig and freetype are now taken from the user's system instead of being packaged with the viewer
  If all goes well we can later remove them from autobuild.xml
  mygoditsfullofstars Resident (PorkChop), Zi Ree

• FIXEDFixed the re-download from secondlife.com error messages in the installer
  Fixed the viewer installer telling the user to re-download the Linden Lab Viewer when Firestorm install fails
  Beq Janus

• FIXEDFixed chat console font size cannot be changed on the fly anymore
  This fixes FIRE-32614
  Preferences → Chat→ Visuals → Onscreen console font size
  Ansariel Hiller

• FIXEDFixed missing context menu in group member list
  When right clicking any name in a group member list, the context menu entries including “Add to Set” and “Offer Teleport” have been added back
  This fixes FIRE-32602
  Ansariel Hiller

• FIXEDFixed the missing context menu in the “Avatar Display Exceptions” window
  The right click options “Always Full Detail”, “Never Full Detail” and “Remove From Exceptions” have been added back to avatar names in the “Avatar Display Exceptions” window
  This fixes FIRE-32635
  World → Avatar Render Settings
  Ansariel Hiller

• FIXEDFixed the “You cannot change…” overlapping text when changing Display Name
  This fixes FIRE-32543
  PanteraPolnocy

• FIXEDRemoved viewer log spam when “Show Friends Only” is enabled
  Removed the uneeded “Received animation state for unknown avatar” log spam
  This fixes FIRE-32520
  Ansariel Hiller

• FIXEDFixed HTTP proxy not working as advertised
  Fixed the proxy connect timeout being too too short
  Timeout was randomly failing leading to intermittent behaviour with slow localhost proxies and complete failure on network proxies.
  This fixes FIRE-32644
  Preferences → Network & Files → Connection → Adjust Proxy Settings
  Beq Janus

• FIXEDFixed the radar notes column not immediately updating when notes on an avatar's profile were edited
  This fixes BUG-23321
  Zi Ree

• Updated FMOD Studio to version 2.02.11
  FMOD Studio 2.02.11 Release Notes
  Windows - Ansariel Hiller
  Linux - mygoditsfullofstars Resident (PorkChop)

• German translation updates - Ansariel Hiller
• Russian translation updates -Romka Swallowtail
• Polish translation updates - PanteraPolnocy
• French translation updates - Laurent Bechir

• Added VS2022 support for building Firestorm on Windows - Ansariel Hiller
• Various fixes & improvements for building Firestorm using GitHub Actions - Beq Janus
• Linux build fixes - Zi Ree

• FIXEDFixed avatar Profiles not loading and sundry issues
  Restored UDP Profiles for Opemsim
  Fixed Profile Picks and Notes not loading on OpenSim
  Fixed 1st Life notes not saving back to the server
  This fixes FIRE-32306
  Beq Janus, Ubit Umarov, Ansariel Hiller

• From: https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/changeset/71657b66f99301a602c7915b70b8b395902bf6ac, r69679 - Revert “SL-18581 Don't show the starter avatar toolbar button for NUX”…

• To: https://vcs.firestormviewer.org/phoenix-firestorm/changeset/ab64614bbc9fb1016c87a4664fc1cc55677273b5, r69804 - Disable bumplist threading until it can be proven to be useful