Remember, Second Life will be offline tomorrow morning from 6am to noon SLT (US Pacific), while the grid is updated to 1.18.0, which implements the key pieces of Linden Lab's 14 month old "Message Liberation" project that kept coming up in so many meetings.

In a nutshell, Message Liberation changes the communications format to one that is supposed to be both faster, less buggy and more versatile. Faster is good. We like faster. Less buggy is good too. Versatile in that it allows more decoupling of the viewer and the grid, hopefully spelling an end to major update outages sometime in the not-too-far-distant future (in all but the most major cases), and allowing different sims to run different software.

The Support Portal is also going down tomorrow from 8am to 11am SLT, which I think you'll agree is a better time than Saturday night - though it's so far been nice to see all the extra time that Linden Lab has during an update to answer emails, handle support, and process abuse reports.