[COMPLETE 09-25 08:10AM] Rolling Restart to deploy 1.24.6, Tue-Thu Sep. 23-25

Update 2008-09-25 08:10am: The second-half rolling restart is finished.

Update 2008-09-25 05:20am: The second-half rolling restart has begun.

Update 2008-09-24 08:50am: The first-half rolling restart is complete.

Update 2008-09-24 05:30am: The first-half rolling restart is beginning now. Even-numbered hosts will be updated to 1.24.6.97433.

Update 2008-09-23 09:07pm: Except for a handful of recalcitrant regions which we’re working on right now, the pilot rolling restart is complete.

Update 2008-09-23 08:09pm: The pilot rolling restart to ~300 hosts has begun.

Update 2008-09-22 10:14pm: We are delaying the 1.24.6 rolling restart by one day to the following schedule:

  • Tuesday, Sep. 23, 8-10PM : A pilot group of ~3000 regions will receive 1.24.6
  • Wednesday, Sep. 24, 5-9AM : Half of Second Life will receive 1.24.6
  • Thursday, Sep. 25, 5-9AM : The rest of Second Life will receive 1.24.6

Update 2008-09-18 11:11am: The rolling restart to deploy 1.24.6 has been postponed until next week, and will follow the schedule:

  • Monday, Sep. 22, 8-10PM : A pilot group of ~3000 regions will receive 1.24.6
  • Tuesday, Sep. 23, 5-9AM : Half of Second Life will receive 1.24.6
  • Wednesday, Sep. 24, 5-9AM : The rest of Second Life will receive 1.24.6

There will be a rolling restart this week to deploy server version 1.24.6 to Second Life. Release notes for what is changed may be found on this page on the Second Life Wiki. There are no new features in this release, only bug fixes. The version that will be deployed to Second Life is currently on the Preview Grid on regions running the Second Life Beta Server channel.

The rolling restart will follow this schedule:

  • Wednesday, 8:30-10PM: a pilot group of ~3000 regions will receive 1.24.6.
  • Thursday, 5-9AM: half of Second Life will receive 1.24.6.
  • Friday, 5-9AM: the rest of Second Life will receive 1.24.6

Each region will go down for about 5-10 minutes once during the rolling restart. If your region stays down for more than 20 minutes, please contact support.

Discussion of this rolling restart can be found in this thread in the Second Life forums.