With this release we’ve dramatically simplified the Second Life install and update experiences.
NOTE: If you are on Windows and have the old SL app icon pinned to your taskbar, you will need to unpin it, and re-pin it from the new SL app desktop shortcut.
What’s new
Viewers on Windows now use a new “one click” installer that installs the viewer to a local user directory.
Viewers on macOS still use the disk image method for drag and drop install.
All viewers will now use a new updater that makes updates more transparent.
Viewers will no longer prompt the user to install an update. It will now download updates in the background and prompt the user for installation.
Installing to custom locations is supported by the --installto command line parameter
On Windows, open up a PowerShell command prompt by clicking the Start menu, typing Powershell and hitting Enter.
Move to the folder the Second Life installer was downloaded to. e.g.
cd ~/Downloads
Run the installer with the --installto flag followed by the folder you want it installed to. e.g.
Portable installations can be found on our GitHub. This is experimental and no support will be provided at this time. Use at your own risk
The Windows viewer is now installed in a user directory. You can find it under %LocalAppData% in Windows Explorer. It will be listed as SecondLifeViewer.
Known Issues
26.1.0 and older viewers will be left installed with the option for users to remove them manually
Shortcuts to the previous 26.1.0 and older viewers will be replaced with the new one-click shortcuts
Multiple viewers:
While we do not officially support running Multiple viewers at the same time, we know our residents do it. That said; Multiple 26.1.0 and older viewers installs on the same system may fail to update after one of them have been updated to the new one-click install viewer
If you run into issues, please file bugs via Canny (Feedback) so they can be tracked and investigated by the team. Your reports directly help shape future releases.