Second Life's updating to 1.17.0 (err, again, after the previously scheduled update), and will be down from 6am to noon tomorrow 13 June. Although it seems a bit last-minute, preliminary release notes have been made available today. For the hard of reading, voice is not a feature in this release, though new voice features will be available on the beta grid.
This release is pretty much a bug-fix release, primarily containing fixes from resident developers. The man of the hour, in my opinion, is Nicholaz Beresford. While many people have contributed many good fixes, Nicholaz has been tirelessly trawling through the code hunting memory and resource leaks, plugging them and getting the changes tested. I've been running his patched viewer for some little time now, and it's the best viewer experience I've had with Second Life so far.
1. I hope Nicholaz gets some kind of benefit which will keep him interested. ;-)
Posted at 2:11AM on Jun 13th 2007 by Nobody Fugazi