Second Life Viewer Update

Quick summary

• Introduction of a renewed user interface.
• Improvements in stability and performance.
• Usability updates to facilitate navigation.
• Viewer in Beta version, focused on feedback from users.
• Available for Windows and macOS.

Official source: Second Life Release Notes. Automatic translation into Portuguese (Brazil).

26.2.0.25386466510 - 26.2

Release Notes

26.2 “Flat UI” Beta Viewer

O Flat UI Viewer presents an initial work on a renewed user interface, along with a wide range of stability corrections, performance improvements and usability updates. This is a Beta viewer intended for an initial release and feedback while it is still iterar about the next generation of Second Life interface.

As with all Beta viewers, feedback is especially valuable. Linden Lab requests users to share their opinions and report problems through Feedback Portal.

Share feedback: Feedback Portal

New Resources

Interface and Source Improvements

The Flat UI project includes steps towards a more readable and modern appearance:

• Google Inter font adoption, specifically designed for interfaces, which is more readable
• Improvements in font dimensioning and layout handling
  
• Visual design “Flat” in buttons, tabs and menus so that labels are more readable
• Highlighting color blue to increase visibility of selected list items

New Login Screen

The login fields were moved to the left in a more standard arrangement and the screen was simplified, using tabs for content categories instead of displaying everything on a single screen with small and confusing text.

Voice Moderation

Linden Lab announced that voice moderation is being added, along with hosting a proper WebRTC voice solution. Landowners will soon be able to moderate voice users on their own land. This Alpha viewer will have very limited availability, but the community is encouraged to test it and provide early feedback.

Who can moderate:

• Region owners and property managers can moderate voice in plots configured to use the region's voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this portion’ disabled)
• Partition owners can moderate voice in configured plots to use their own plot voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this portion’ enabled)
• If a portion is owned by a group and uses its own voice channel, any member of the group with the ability ‘Moderate Group Chat’ can moderate

How to moderate:

• Go to the place you want to moderate and make sure it's connected to the space voice
• Open the float ‘Conversations’ and right click on any user name in the ‘Chat next’ list. If there is moderation ability, the ‘Modern moderation options’ menu will appear
• Select the appropriate moderation action, which may include:
  • Silence all: silence all avatars connected to the space voice channel. Note that this setting is ‘adherent’: avatars that enter later will also be silenced.
  • Activate sound for everyone: activate the sound of all avatars connected to the space voice channel, so they can speak if they want.
  • Silence this participant: silence the selected avatar
  • Enable sound for this participant: activate the selected avatar sound

Where to test moderation:

Moderation can currently be tested in any webRTC-enabled region, which currently means any region in Second Life; Preflight, Bluesteel, Ferrari and LeTigre channels.

For those who do not have a webRTC-enabled region over which they have powers, some public test batches were configured in https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WebRTC%20Voice%201/114/225/23

The two batches are owned by a publicly accessible group, which has been configured to allow any member to modify the voice chat. Both batches are configured to use your own batch voice channel. Click on the green sphere for instructions. The main batch in ‘WebRTC Voice 1’ uses the region channel and can only be moderated by the region owner or a property manager.

Bug fixes

• A job was done to make the bold even more bold with this latest version after good feedback from the community.
• Fixed some places where the text did not break correctly.
• Inventory is not updated until a relog and teleportation cause disconnections in the Official Viewer and Firestorm https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5569

Help to Improve It

This is a Beta Viewer, and some parts of the Flat interface, sources and voice moderation projects are still in refinement. Feedback is welcome as you continue to improve your experience.

Share feedback and report issues: Feedback Portal