The last few weeks have been busy behind the scenes. LL promoted the Simple Cache viewer as 6.4.14 however it rapidly became clear that this viewer had sufficient previously undetected issues that the official viewer release was reverted to 6.4.13.
The decision was taken to unwind the Simple Cache viewer from the history of files that make up the official viewer (I’m simplifying a little there to avoid getting into too much detail about source code management) which became notionally a 6.4.15 release (despite being otherwise identical to 6.4.13). In additional LL’s automated processes incremented the version number again so at the time of writing the next LL viewer looks like being 6.4.17. However, there is an outside chance that one of the other Release Candidate viewers will be promoted. These are currently all 6.4.14 too.
In the event that LL do release another 6.4.14 based on one of the other RCs we will hold our version number at 6.4.16 until we are back in alignment with the official LL release version.
In common with several other Third Party Viewers we had already merged in the Simple Cache code based upon its promotion to release status as an assurance it had reached acceptable quality. As a result we have had to unwind the Kokua repository too as well as reverting changes we made while it still looked like a Simple Cache hotfix release was on the cards. We also needed to preserve our other changes despite the rollback. In short, it’s been a very busy time.
Although there is no new LL code featured in this release there are a number of other new items in this release.
Contact Sets have been ported from Firestorm - see Contact Sets for more information on the feature and the differences between the Kokua port and the original.
A new toolbar icon for Personal Lighting has been added and can be configured onto one of the toolbars if desired.
The statistics bar graphs that can be shown near the time on the status bar have been extended with three new bar graphs that allow an instant view of the current region's health in respect of running scripts. For more detail see Additional Status Bar bargraphs
The ability to toggle the crouching position has been ported over from Firestorm. The option for this is on Preferences > Move which has now been split into three tabs due to overcrowding
The ability to mark any folder as a System Folder (so promoting it to the first group of folders and protecting it from deletion) has been ported from Catznip
The ability to see a place or avatar profile from the minimap has been ported from Firestorm
In addition, the RLV and FTRLV versions incorporate RLV 2.9.30.0. Release notes for 2.9.30 are here with original documentation for @setsphere here . Note that while the examples in the documentation will work as expected, there are some subtle differences in the syntax to use as described in the 2.9.30 Release Notes.
There are some other RLV changes beyond those listed in the RLV 2.9.30.0 release notes
In the status floater it would try to resolve the uuid for camtextures to a name and fail, showing ‘waiting’. Instead it will simply show the uuid.
A new debug option RestrainedLoveSelectionOutlines allows switching between the earlier behaviour of no selection outlines/no change to vision spheres when an object is selected and the later behaviour of showing a selection outline whilst forcing the nearest vision sphere to opaque. The earlier behaviour is the default.
The RLV Status floater’s last tab has been updated to show @setsphere information whilst it is in effect
All the above are also in Marine’s RLV release. Finally, a Kokua-only bug has been fixed which allowed some IMs to be sent or received when they should have been blocked by RLV.
Release notes
Bug
[KKA-817] - 6.4.14 bug fixing [Reverted - not present in this version]
[KKA-823] - RLV status - shouldn't try to look up uuid for camtextures/setcam_textures
New Feature
[KKA-808] - #RLV folder as system folder
[KKA-809] - Locking/protection of inventory folders
[KKA-812] - Contact sets
[KKA-821] - Additional status bar indicators
[KKA-822] - Toggle Crouch option
Improvement
[KKA-814] - Add a toolbar button for personal lighting
[KKA-815] - Update KDU to version 8.1
[KKA-818] - About Land in Mini map