New 1.22 Test Viewer: RC8 Now Available

The ninth iteration of the 1.22 Viewer, Release Candidate 8, has been released.  If you have been using Release Candidate 7, you will be required to update to RC8.  As is the case with all 1.22 Release Candidate viewers, RC8 may be installed along side the official 1.21 viewer.

RC8 includes a number of voice improvements, as well as support for OpenAL.  Complete release notes can be found at:

http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Release_Notes/Second_Life_Release_Candidate/1.22

While we’ve made many improvements, we still need your help in identifying new bugs, finding crash cases, and providing final feedback as we prepare to release the official 1.22 Viewer - very soon!

Please keep in mind that participation in the viewer Release Candidate cycle is entirely optional.  If you wish to take part, just download the Release Candidate from the following web page and start experimenting:

http://secondlife.com/support/downloads.php#download-Testviewers

You can participate in discussions about this Release Candidate here in the SL Forums.

Don’t forget… if you find new issues, please report them at jira.secondlife.com.  When submitting new issues, be sure to set the “Affects Version/s” to “1.22 Release Candidate” and follow the instructions to paste your system information into the “Environment” field.  We’re only able to investigate bugs that are reported in this way.