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The pages below have been updated to reflect changes since Firestorm 5.0.7. Please do not bookmark them, as they will disappear once 5.0.11 goes to public release.

• Object tab: Preview menu and comparative table showing default values for the LL viewer, Firestorm, and then for your LOD setting.
• Features tab: The eye icon. Use this to avoid the “can't rez here” simulator message. The physics shape view lets you see how the simulator sees the items when it is trying to work out where to place things, where you walk and how things collide (displays in blue).

• Inventory window: Explains the Elements information on currently selected folder. Elements includes the numbers of inventory items and folders. For example 12/4 Elements is 12 items and 4 folders.
  Additionally, for total inventory, hover your mouse over Elements for a breakdown of items and folders.
  Folder labels now update when item count changes. (update)
  Received Items folder now shows Elements count. (update)

• Inspect: Added Total Stats summary and additional column for VRAM.

• Right Click Menu: Reset Mesh LOD. Added option to “reset” broken meshes worn on avatars due to stuck LOD.

• Chat tab: Report ignored conference chats in nearby chat now includes URI link to the inviter.
• Privacy tab: Added option to show/hide invitations to already joined groups.
• User Interface tab: Remap shortcuts already used by Linux. Shortcuts already used by Linux (Ctrl-Alt-Fn) will be remapped to use Ctrl-Shift instead.
• Move & View tab: Added option to disable visual hints when editing shape. (update)
• Chat Tab: Command Lines added: /zoffset_up: Offset your avatar upward by 0.05.
  /zoffset_down: Offset your avatar downward by 0.05.
  These can be used in gestures, perhaps assigned to the PgUp and PgDn keys respectively. (update)
• User Interface tab: Celestia medium redux font added. Note: does not include bold and italics. (update)

• People: Added same parcel indicator.

• Avatar Physics: Avatar physics no longer bugs out at very low and very high FPS. A long awaited fix to have you wiggling and jiggling at your very best.

Snapshot: Posting snapshot to Twitter. Increased total length of Twitter posts up to 280 characters and the photo no longer takes up characters.

• Added support for Gloebits currency (see https://www.gloebit.com/about-gloebit).
• Added the new OpenSim OSSL functions to script library.
• Fixed inventory fetching stalls on OpenSim.
• Littlefield Grid crash fix. (update)

• Translation updates for German, Polish and Japanese.

Updated to LL codebase 5.0.9, which includes, among other things:

• Support for Asset-Http - wearables, animations, gestures, sounds & landmarks are now fetched from the CDN (Second Life grids only).
• http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/5.0.6.326593
• http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/5.0.7.328060
• http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/5.0.8.329115
• http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release/5.0.9.329906

Firestorm was the first viewer to bring you the extra stability and memory profile of the 64-bit viewer, but until now that has been at the expense of one feature, the Havok libraries supplied by Linden Lab. As a result of the work that the Lab are doing on their Alex Ivy 64-bit project, we are now able to bring you the long-anticipated, Havok-enabled 64-bit Firestorm, once again restoring all the functionality of the 32-bit viewer but keeping the stability and speed of the 64-bit viewer.

Many of you will not have noticed anything missing, but for builders and those using features such as pathfinding, the lack of Havok limited certain functions. The most notable area was mesh upload. Firestorm never lost the ability to upload mesh (contrary to many incorrect rumors) but what Havok does provide is a few special functions that allow a mesh creator to optimize the physics shape of their works. This has now been fully restored to the 64-bit viewer.

To celebrate this, one of our developers has created a special physics-shape–viewing extension to the edit dialog. For creators, this means that you can now see exactly how your mesh will react to people walking and colliding with it, while for other users, it means you can check whether a physics shape exists before trying to rez an object, saving those “cannot rez here” messages and lost inventory.

Firestorm Developer, Beq Janus - Beq's Other Blog http://beqsother.blogspot.ca/2017/10/coming-to-firestorm-soon-couple-of-new.html

Buy Beq's physics shape test pack (freebie) on Marketplace. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Firestorm-Beta-Tester-kit/13140762

Physics Explained http://beqsother.blogspot.ca/2017/10/blue-sky-thinking-physics-view-explained.html

Copy and paste this link in your external browser to see a complete list of the resolved JIRA issues since last release. https://jira.phoenixviewer.com/issues/?filter=14691

Summary of issues:

Bug

• FIRE-21000 - Cannot upload meshes rigged to attach points in (works in 4.7.9)
• FIRE-21071 - [Mac Only?] Group profile - Crashing when creating an admin role
• FIRE-21236 - Help Menu - Check Grid Status doesn't open using external browser
• FIRE-21261 - Brackets around system messages not shown when not using V1-style chat headers
• FIRE-21273 - “MAINT-389 No way to wear an outfit from Library besides drag-n-drop” doesn't work on Firestorm
• FIRE-21298 - Usernames in emotes of the V3 header of the chat window
• FIRE-21301 - [OpenSim] Syntax highlight missing
• FIRE-21306 - Firestorm 5.0.7 (52912) broken windlight using advanced lighting
• FIRE-21308 - Firestorm Crashing 100% reproducable
• FIRE-21318 - [BUG-100886] [MAINT-7541] We were unable to decode the file storing your saved login credentials…
• FIRE-21321 - Option to disable use of built-in transcript viewer does not work
• FIRE-21323 - Crashing Viewer while toggling LanguageIsPublic
• FIRE-21330 - Build Animation: Cannot extend frame loop slider past 100 frames.
• FIRE-21364 - Recent commits break Linux build process
• FIRE-21369 - [BUG-134022] [MAINT-7607] [Crash] Appearance causes crashes in 52912
• FIRE-21378 - Query status secondlifegrid.net for latest news at login reports “Invalid Message Format”
• FIRE-21394 - [BUG-133986] [MAINT-7581] Closing the 'Replace links' floater crashes the viewer if a replace is in progress
• FIRE-21396 - Area Search saving query
• FIRE-21408 - FPS drop when opening the world map and zooming out
• FIRE-21495 - Web Certificate for https://www.firestormviewer.org is expired
• FIRE-21595 - [BUG-134193] [MAINT-7625] “Confirm before deleting filtered items” notification appears when deleting empty folder
• FIRE-21632 - unwearing an item does not remove it from what is visible in the worn tab in one's inventory
• FIRE-4276 - [BUG-9282] [MAINT-5226] All sounds, including UI sounds, stutter and repeat multiple times when on a region that has a large number of sound sources - “LLAudioData::load: Not able to allocate a new audio buffer, aborting.”
• FIRE-5939 - Deleted gestures are not cleared from the desture panel
• FIRE-6955 - Line numbers in script editor are not changing to semi-transparent, when window is unselected
• FIRE-14101 - Intermittent broken LOD(MESH) on extreme zoom out/in
• FIRE-16245 - [BUG-9367] [MAINT-5261] The “Ping Interpolate the object position” seems to no longer work
• FIRE-16829 - [BUG-20057] MAINT-6512] [AMD] Visual Artifacts with ALM enabled on AMD graphics
• FIRE-18014 - Inventory Window Stays auto of focus after object/folder drop
• FIRE-20289 - [OpenSim] Unable to completely load inventory in OpenSimulator 0.8.2.1
• FIRE-20441 - Skin Glitches Underwater
• FIRE-20553 - Show received items folder in normal inventory bug
• FIRE-21263 - Show Highlight option is not saved after closing Edit window REVERTED TO ORIGINAL BEHAVIOR (update)
• FIRE-21292 - [MAC 10.12.5 and 10.13] Gives error message on Mac at quit “Firestorm quit unexpectedly”
• FIRE-21375 - [Linux] Materials Textures do not synchronize!
• FIRE-21376 - [Opensim] User reports unable to load inventory past 850 items
• FIRE-21419 - [BUG-134021] [MAINT-7611] if a group name starts with a space then its not opening the transscript file on hard disk
• FIRE-21489 - Hover Avatar height resets on every login or teleport
• FIRE-21596 - helper-uri fails to update on HG teleport
• FIRE-21630 - [BUG-202664] [MAINT-8033] Inventory trash can count is off
• FIRE-21739 - [BUG-139222] [MAINT-7906] Inventory jumps when detaching worn items in appearance panel
• FIRE-21754 - [BUG-139241] [MAINT-7910] MAINT-6770 regressed in Moonshine merge - Appearance floater's chosen tab is not remembered between sessions.
• FIRE-21755 - Position, Size and Rotation changes don't affect prim
• FIRE-21757 - Crash in specific regions, facing specific directions
• FIRE-21772 - Unable to edit prim type after selecting someone else's mesh objects
• FIRE-21781 - Experience_Events.xml excessively large causes login issues
• FIRE-21785 - Taper does not stop when reaching 1.0 when using up arrow
• FIRE-21787 - Reproducible crash on 5.0.9 beta
• FIRE-21807 - When opening a voice call no sound plays to alert of the call
• FIRE-21887 - when ever i want to make a payment to someone i search in the friends list, when i click on their name i get someone else profile and pay the wrong person this is serious
• FIRE-22119 - [BUG-202858] 5.0.11.53579 Inventory Counts don't update until clicking the folder name (update)
• FIRE-21948 - the new (Item/Folder) display doesn't work in the Received Items Display (update)
• FIRE-19720 - Crash when teleporting on Littlefield grid - LLVOSurfacePatch dirtyGeom (update)

Improvement

• FIRE-14599 - Inventory - Quick Jump from Recent or Worn to Inventory Folder
• FIRE-17376 - Set a custom application name for FMOD
• FIRE-21069 - New Graphic for Check Mark MetaHarper Modern (BlackGlass) (Graphic Preset Switcher)
• FIRE-21241 - Profiles: Add the 'Copy URI' Gear Button to the Bottom of our Own Profiles
• FIRE-21385 - Add inviter name/UUID to ad-hoc ignored messages
• FIRE-21617 - Vignette not Saved in preset
• FIRE-5913 - [PHOENIX] Selecting multiple active gestures with 1 or more inactive ones at the same time does not produce (De)activate right click option.
• FIRE-20139 - Thai unicode chars are not displayed correctly (rectangles) on Win 10 even after installing Thai supplemental fonts and with Office 2016 installed.
• FIRE-20385 - Can Join Group When Already In It
• FIRE-21504 - [PATCH] Change the rezplat object type to Box
• FIRE-21546 - Docked Windows Poof/minimize On New Group Session
• FIRE-21625 - [LINUX] bad shortcuts Ctrl.+Alt+F1 and Ctrl.+Alt+T
• FIRE-21803 - Add a check box under Preferences/Notifications/World/Notify me when I spend or get L$, that would say “allow payment messages”.
• FIRE-22110 - Add chat command for “Hover height” setting (update)
• FIRE-21936 - Option to remove preview thumbnail images of avatar in appearance mode (update)
• FIRE-22130 - RenderVolumeLODFactor values and warnings (update)

New Feature

• FIRE-21445 - Force display specific LOD
• FIRE-21587 - [OpenSim] Use SimulatorFeaturesRequest OpenSimExtras map currency and currency-base-uri settings
• FIRE-21745 - [OpenSim] Syntax Highlight missing osGetSimulatorMemoryKB

Translation

• FIRE-21313 - Translation failure in german version in Vintage Skin
• FIRE-21614 - Update Japanese translation

Support Request

• FIRE-21529 - bin_conf.dat corrupts after first log in following clean install