26.2.0.24254827122 - 26.2

Release Notes

26.2 “Flat UI” Beta Viewer

The Flat UI Viewer introduces early work on a refreshed user interface, along with a wide range of stability fixes, performance improvements, and usability updates. This is a Beta viewer intended for early release and feedback as we continue iterating on the next generation of the Second Life interface.

As with all Beta viewers, your feedback is especially valuable. Please share your thoughts and report issues through our Feedback Portal.

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New Features

Interface and Font Improvements

The Flat UI project includes steps toward a more readable, modern appearance:

• Adoption of Google Inter typeface, designed specifically for UIs
• Improved font scaling and layout handling
  
• “Flat” visual design on buttons, tabs, and menus so labels are more readable
• Blue highlight color to increase visibility of selected list items

New Login Screen

We’ve moved login fields to the left in a more standard arrangement, and simplified the screen, using tabs for categories of content rather than displaying it all on one screen in crowded, small text.

Voice Moderation

Have you heard? We’re adding Voice moderation along with hosting our own WebRTC voice solution! Land owners will soon be able to moderate voice users on their own land. This Alpha viewer will have very limited availability, but we’d love for the community to try it out and give us feedback early.

Who can moderate:

• Region owners and estate managers can moderate voice on parcels configured to use the region voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ disabled)
• Parcel owners can moderate voice on parcels configured to use their own parcel voice channel (‘Restrict Voice to this parcel’ enabled)
• If a parcel is owned by a group and uses its own voice channel, any group member with the ‘Moderate Group Chat’ ability can moderate

How to moderate:

• Go to the location you wish to moderate, and ensure you are connected to spatial voice
• Open the ‘Conversations’ floater, and right click on any username in the ‘Nearby chat’ list. If you have moderation ability, the ‘Moderation options’ menu will appear
• Select the appropriate moderation action, which might include:
  • Mute everyone: mute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel. Note that this setting is ‘sticky’: late-joining avatars will also be muted.
  • Unmute everyone: unmute all avatars connected to the spatial voice channel, so that they may speak if they wish.
  • Mute this participant: mute the selected avatar
  • Unmute this participant: unmute the selected avatar

Where to test moderation:

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

For those who don’t have a webRTC-enabled region that they have powers over, some public test parcels have been set up at https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/WebRTC%20Voice%201/114/225/23

The two parcels are owned by a publicly joinable group, which has been configured to allow for any member to moderate voice chat. Both parcels are configured to use their own parcel voice channel. Click the green orb for instructions. The main parcel in ‘WebRTC Voice 1’ uses the region channel, and can only be moderated by the region owner or an estate manager.

Bug Fixes

https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/issues/5569 Inventory does not update until relog and teleport causes disconnections in Official Viewer and Firestorm

Help Us Improve It

This is a Beta viewer, and some parts of the Flat UI, Fonts and Voice Moderation projects are still in refinement. We welcome your feedback as we continue improving the experience.

Share feedback and report issues: Feedback Portal