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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.20 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

This is release just updates RestrainedLove to the latest API version (2.4).

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.21 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New ParcelEncroachmentSupport patch: allows to return objects encroaching your parcels, provided parcel encroachment returns are enabled in the sim server (use the Region Debug Console to find out if they are).
• New PngImageIgnoreBackground patch: fixes the uploading issues with PNG images having a background color set.
• Updated RestrainedLove patch: with a new @adjustheight command, see this thread for details.
• Updated FloaterRegionDebugConsole patch: this new version supports asynchronous console replies that were implemented in the latest SL sim server versions.
• Updated LLFontCrash patch: this new version (mostly relevant to Linux users) prevents the UI background from becoming transparent when taking High Resolution snapshots or changing the hardware graphic settings while the OpenGL restart crash workaround is enabled (LL_OPENGL_RESTART_CRASH_BUG environment variable set).
• Updated ImprovedBuildTools patch: this new version extends the slice parameters down to 0.02% (for max slice) and up to 0.98% (for min slice).
• Updated BlurryAndGreyTextures patch: further speeds up cache texture purging and forces a full purge of the cache on relog when changing its size in the Preferences/Network tab (failing to purge the cache could otherwise result in corrupted texture entries and consequently in "rainbow" textures on relog).
• Updated SimulatorVersionNotification patch: this new version allows to disable entirely the sim server version change notifications when you move/TP from one region to another.
• Updated CoolPreferences patch: this new version implements a new setting in the Miscellaneous tab for the SimulatorVersionNotification patch above.
• Updated CoolVLViewerBranding patch: with updated credits.

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.22 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New ViewerInventoryItemUpdateServerCrash patch: fixes a crash bug that was recently exposed, apparently due to the new SL asset or sim server versions and that could occur when copying an item in the inventory and immediately renaming it.
• Updated RestrainedLove patch: with the definitive @adjustheight command implementation, see this post for details.
• Updated HighlightPostsWithOwnName patch: this new version fixes a crash bug that could occur when nicknames highlighting is enabled and you logged in just as someone else was chatting around your rezzing Av.
• Updated AvatarSizeInAppearance patch: this new version now gives, in the Apperance floater, the genuine (i.e. not counting shoes) avatar height as well as the shoes height and the pelvis to foot height (useful for scripters wishing to use @adjustheight).

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.23 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New MediaFilter patch: based on a patch by Sione Lomu, this (largely) reworked patch allows you to authorize or deny individual media and audio streams. See this message for full details.
• Updated SLPluginAndMediaFixes patch: this new version fixes the internal web browser "cache" folder quirk which caused the latter to be written at the root of your filesystem ("/cache" in Linux, "c:\cache" in Windows). See this thread for details.
• Updated ContextMenuTextEntry patch: this new version improves the context menu of input lines and text entries by greying out automatically unavailable actions in the menu (for example, disabling "Copy" when no text is selected).
• Updated RevertUIchanges patch: changed to cope with the new MediaFilter patch.
• Updated CoolPreferences patch: changed to implement the options related to the MediaFilter patch (in the "Miscellaneous" sub-tab of the "Cool features" tab: new checkbox and "Reset filters" button).
• Updated CoolVLViewerBranding patch: Sione Lomu added to the contributors list.

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.24 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New ATIrenderStarsFix patch: Shyotl Kuhr's fixes to some rendering issues with stars in the sky, for ATI cards.
• Updated MediaFilter patch: this new version fixes a race condition that could eventually be exploited to get through the filters (Users of the Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.23 should upgrade !), and implements a Media Filter floater (View -> Media Filter) to allow adding/removing/clearing/viewing filtered domains. See this message for full details.
• Updated SLPluginAndMediaFixes patch: this new version adds two new debug settings for Linux/MAcOS-X: PluginPriority and PluginPrioForWebkitOnly. See this message for details.
• Updated TeleportHistory patch: just a reordering of the "Teleport History" menu item in the "View" menu.
• Updated CoolPreferences patch: changed to remove the "Reset filters" button related to the old MediaFilter patch (now got its own floater for editing/clearing filters).
• Updated CoolVLViewerBranding patch: Shyotl Kuhr added to the contributors list.

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.25 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

This is a bugfix release (users of the Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.23 or v1.25.0.24 should upgrade). Here what's new:

• Updated MediaFilter patch: this new version fixes a crashbug (introduced in v1.25.0.24) and improves the domain extraction routine (it can cope with URLs containing user and password info).
• Updated CoolPreferences patch: removed a stale code line that caused a harmless warning in the log.

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.26 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New NoObscuredURLs patch: backport from SnowStorm of the removal of the now useless (deprecated) "Hide URL" feature for parcel media and streaming audio URLs.
• New MessageTemplateUpdates patch: backport from SnowStorm, updating the message templates (no real functional change, mostly cosmetic).
• Updated MediaFilter patch: this new version improves security and usability over previous versions. See this message for details.
• Updated RevertUIchanges patch: in this new version, the "Shout" button was removed from the chat bar and the "Say" button was replaced with a flyout button which flyout menu also contains the "Shout" and "Whisper" items (saves space for the chat input line, and adds the Whisper functionality that was previously only available via the SHIFT ENTER keyboard shortcut).
• Updated BlurryAndGreyTextures patch: this new version brings more backports (fixes) from SnowStorm and adds two Advanced settings (in Advanced -> Rendering): "Boost Attachments Textures" is enabled by default (disabling it saves memory in very crowded areas but causes the viewer to fail to load at full resolution the attachments textures on other avatars, which can be annoying, especially for very detailed attachments and font textures); "Full Res Textures" is disabled by default and allows to load all textures at full resolution, regardless of their importance to the camera (this causes a *massive* memory consumption, but could be of some use to machimina and photography artists).
• Updated ReinstateOldSearchTabs patch: this new version declare as deprecated some of the now unused search-related messages (DirPopularQuery & Co): there's no functional change at all (this is mostly a compilation side cosmetic change).

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.27 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

This is mainly a bugfix/polishing release (update from previous versions is recommended since stability is improved by this version).

New in this release:

• New BetterPreferrencesGraphics patch: adds the "Max non-impostors" settings to the custom graphics preferences panel, and the "Object-object occlusion" setting to the hardware graphic settings floater, as well as an explanation as to why some settings are disabled in the latter.
• New BetterDebugSettings patch: makes the debug settings available from the login screen (code by Siana Gearz), saves the floater position and allows up to 1024 characters (instead of 255) per string variable (by me).
• New DebugGLCrashFix patch: fixes the crash in Advanced -> Rendering -> Debug GL (by Thickbrick Sleaford).
• New llimageFixes patch: fixes a potential crash bug and improves performances in one particular case (code by Siana Gearz).
• New VectorizeFixes patch: fixes a crash bug in the SSE2 vectorization path (by Armin Weatherwax). Since this crash is now fixed, I also made it so that skin vectorization is now enabled by default.
• New AwayTimeout patch: removes an obscure (well hidden in the Advanced menu) setting (AllowIdleAFK), replacing it with the possibility to set the AFKTimeout setting to 0 so to disable completely the auto-AFK feature. Also allows to set the timeout to up to 999 seconds (instead of 600) and optimizes this part of the code (ran at every iteration inside the idling loop) for speed. If you had the "Advanced" -> "Character" -> "Character Test" -> "Go Away/AFK When Idle" setting unchecked, you will want to go to the Preferences floater, General tab and set the Away Timeout value to 0.
• New lineSegmentIntersectFix patch: fixes a potential cause for a crash bug. This is a backport from Snowglobe v2 by SIana Gearz.
• Updated AlignTool patch: this new version got a couple of contributed improvements borrowed from Imprudence/Phoenix/Singularity viewer teams (if anyone recognizes his/her code, please let me know so that I can name them here).
• Updated AutoMaxGroups patch: this new version properly sets the maximum number of groups for some OpenSim grids that used to make the viewer wrongly assume that the maximum was 100.
• Updated MuteBlueDialogs patch: this new version fixes a bug that prevented the muting to work properly.
• Updated CoolVLViewerBranding patch: updates to the list of contributors.

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Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.28 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

New in this release:

• New MoreMutingChoicesInObjectInfo patch: allows to mute by object UUID and by object name (in excess of the already existing object owner muting) from the Object IM Info floater (this floater which appears when you click on an IMing object name in the chat history: remember that the Cool VL Viewer entitles you to add such links for chatting objects as well: see the "Preferences" floater, "Cool features" tab, "Chat/IM" sub-tab).
• New DeadObjectsFixes patch: backport from v2 of some fixes (among which a potential crash bug) dealing with dead objects.
• Updated MuteBlueDialogs patch: this new version improves the muting decision based on either object UUID or object name.
• Updated FloaterGroupTitles patch: this new version adds a "Refresh" button to the floater (useful if some group moderator just added a new group role/title for you in their group), preserves the scrolling position in the group titles list on activation of a new title (used to be reset to top of list), and auto-updates should the floater stay open while you change your group by another mean (for example via the Groups floater, or by joining a new group).
• Updated DisplayNamesSupport patch: this new version fixes the broken active speaker list when display names are disabled, and prevents "Resident" to be displayed in chat, IMs, active speakers list and profile while the "Never display "Resident" in legacy names" setting is on (could happen when display names were entirely disabled or on start of an IM session: see this thread for details). Note that "Resident" is still displayed for new residents in some floaters regardless of this setting, for example in the Inspect floater or build floater (not a bug, since this setting is only aimed at IM, chat and related floaters/lists).
• Updated Radar patch: this new version also properly omits "Resident" as the last name when display names are disabled and the "Never display "Resident" in legacy names" setting is on.
• Updated BlurryAndGreyTextures patch: this new version fixes a bug introduced in v1.25.0.26. See this thread for details. It also moves the "Get HTTP Textures" setting from the Advanced/Rendering menu to the Network tab of the Preferences floater also adding there a new setting allowing to change the maximum number of simultaneous HTTP requests during fetches (defaults to 16: used to be 8 in SG v1.5, increased to 32 in v2, then lowered back to 8 in newer v2 viewers... Go figure !... Normally, the more the faster, but in case of an overloaded HTTP server (may happen at residents connection concurrency peak time), or for users with low network bandwidth, 32 may be worst than 8).
• Updated PreDecodedUIsounds patch: this new version actually makes sure that UI sounds are preloaded and, instead of attempting to play UI sounds at an inaudible level on log in (which failed, since the audio engine is purposely lazy and doesn't decode/play inaudible sounds), it adds an Advanced setting ("Advanced" -> "UI" -> "Decode all UI sounds") allowing to force-decode the sounds, playing them at normal level (useful for recovering them and using them as part of the viewer skin): see this message for details.
• Updated SLPluginAndMediaFixes patch: no change in functionality, just makes sure that the mime_*.xml files are properly bundled at build time.

Enjoy !

Here is a new release of the Cool VL Viewer, available now from http://sldev.free.fr/:

Cool VL Viewer v1.25.0.29 (stable branch, Snowglobe v1.5-based)

This is mostly a bugfix release, and given the many improvements, all users should upgrade.

New in this release:

• New SoundPreviewCrashFix patch: fixes a crash bug occurring when trying to preview a sound item in the reloading contents of a prim.
• New getGeometryVolumeCrashFix patch: fixes a crash that may occur randomly in LLFace::getGeometryVolume() during rezzing.
• New setParameterEntryInUsePotentialCrashFix patch: backport from v2 of a fix for a potential crash bug in LLViewerObject::setParameterEntryInUse().
• New UnavailableVBOcrashFix patch: backport from v2 of a fix to a crash bug that can occur when trying to reset to the default graphic settings on cards without VBO support.
• New CorruptedChunkSizeInUploadedWavCrashFix patch: backport from v2 of a fix to an infinite loop bug that occurred when uploading a wav file with corrupted chunk size.
• New GroupCreationDuringGroupUpdateCrashFix patch: backport from v2 of a crash bug that could occur while creating a new group while the members list for another group was loading.
• New resetViewPotentialCrashFix patch: backport from v2 of a fix for a rare crash bug that could occur while resetting the camera view.
• Updated RestrainedLove patch: brings RestrainedLove features on par with Marine's RestrainedLove v2.05.00.01.
• Updated FloaterGroupTitles patch: this new version adds support for the new @setgroup RestrainedLove command.
• Updated BlurryAndGreyTextures patch: this new version cures the high memory consumption issue that was observed in all previous versions, thanks to an adaptive algorithm and a smarter virtual size calculation for textures on attachments (basically, the adaptive algorithm means that even with the "Boost Attachments Textures" setting on, you won't notice any maximum memory usage change when compared to the memory usage with this feature off, even if this maximum is reached faster in crowded areas). There is also a new "Advanced" -> "Rendering" -> "Reload selected textures" action which allows to force-reload manually the textures of any selected object (selected either via "Edit" or "Inspect"): this works for staled fetches, corrupted cached textures and textures falsely flagged as "missing" due to a failed fetch. Oh, also, the animating textures now get properly rezzed (they are not under Snowglobe/.Snowstorm)...
• Updated DisplayNamesSupport patch: this new version fixes a crash bug that could occur when closing immediately an avatar profile floater just after opening it (and while that avatar's display name was still being fetched).
• Updated StutteringLagAndBugsInAudioEngine patch: this new version adds another crash fix.
• Updated DeadObjectsFixes patch: this new version adds yet another crash fix.

Enjoy !