Announcing a new Test Viewer: 1.21 RC2 is Available

We are releasing the third iteration of the Viewer 1.21 Release Candidate (RC2). Please help us to identify new bugs (and try out the new features) before it becomes an official download for Second Life.

If you have already been using the Release Candidate (RC0 or RC1), you will now be required to update to RC2 with the latest bug fixes. But, participating in the Release Candidate viewers is completely optional. You may install this viewer side-by-side with the official 1.20 viewer that you normally use.

NOTE: We have solved the crash problem with a Mac PowerPC processor. Therefore we have returned to our normal process to require all participants to upgrade from the previous RC1. (This is so we can gather clear feedback only on the latest set of fixes to the code.)

In RC2, we have solved some bugs that appeared before, but not all bugs you have reported. A complete list of fixes is available in the Full release notes.

Please visit the Test Viewers page to download the 1.21 RC2 viewer — or when your Release Candidate viewer prompts you to upgrade to the new version.

You can discuss the release of this new Release Candidate here in the SL Forums.

Be sure to report new issues in the Issue Tracker and set the “Affects Version/s” to “1.21 Release Candidate”.  We can only investigate and solve issues that are reported there!