Yesterday's rolling restart has turned into a hair-pulling nightmare for the manufacturers of various scripted devices - most notably furniture and devices that use a particular gimmick to reposition an avatar for multiple poses.

The trick was to use llSetLinkPrimitiveParams() which allowed (we think, quite unintentionally) a sitting avatar to be moved around as if it were one of the prims of the object - but other attempts to manipulate the avatar using the function could crash the sim in which the script was operating. Bug or not, yesterday's rolling restart fixed that without any notification of the change in behavior (server-side changes and bug-fixes are never listed in any detail, if at all).

The breakage has, itself, been reported as a bug, specifically as SVC-750 and bug-reporter dibbs Dogval is hoping to garner votes for rapidly repairing this problem. Entire product lines, we hear, have been rendered inoperative.

[Via SLNN]