We'd already determined that there wasn't going to be a Wednesday update, because Linden Lab promised repeatedly that they wouldn't pull the system down with less than 5 day's notice unless it was absolutely vital. I'm guessing something in this next release has been deemed to be absolutely vital.The grid is going down from 6am to noon SLT (US Pacific) tomorrow (Wednesday May 23) for an update to 1.16.0. So ... what are we getting? Sculpties, that is sculptable prims, that is displacement-mapped-solids; Also, group IM issues are to be fixed ... err again; llRegionSay() to reduce the need for many sorts of communication relays (almost all of which have been phased out in the last 12 months, but heck, a new lower-lag interobject communications option isn't going to cause a lot of complaints); Fixes to content loss when taking no-copy objects.
Smart money says there's a fix for a key exploit or two in there as well, hence the sudden mad rush.
What are we not getting? Voice. Guessing that's not ready yet.
1. Heh. Just... heh.
Posted at 12:04AM on May 23rd 2007 by Nobody Fugazi