7.1.14.14742193597 - 2025.04

Friday, May 2, 2025

Release Notes

Second Life Viewer Update – 2025.04

UI Refinements, and a Flood of Fixes

We’re back with Viewer 2025.04! This update brings sharp new features, a ton of quality-of-life improvements, stability and crash fixes that make your Second Life smoother, faster, and more reliable than ever.

New Features

Chat Mentions (Early Support)

Initial support for chat mentions is now in place, paving the way for better communication and awareness in local chat. Type @ then pick a name. Coming next: audible alerts and highlight color pickers.

Outfit Subfolders

You can now use subfolders in “My Outfits” to better organize your lookbook.

Hover Height Increased

The new minimum/maximum for hover height is now +/- 3 meters. We hope this helps accommodate your avatars big and small alike.

Quality of Life Improvements

User Interface Improvements

Search in Preferences now works better—even with text defined in boxes—and is more readable, especially for disabled settings.
The Snapshot floater can now hide your L\$ balance when UI is visible—great for sharing!
Avatar flight hover wind noise debug setting is back: AudioLevelWind
Water setting: Negative Blur Multipliers previously had no effect. UI has been updated to avoid applying negative values.

Build floater:

Texture scale boundaries have been increased
Physics Material Type now updates when selecting linked objects
Resolved texture “repeats per meter” value being incorrect for non-uniform sized objects

Regression Fixes

This update squashes a huge number of bugs and addresses many common crash sources. Just a few highlights:

Show > Land Owner now shows correct highlights.
A crash that occurred when observing certain GLTF objects has been resolved.

And much more, including enhanced error handling, reduced lock contention, better mesh loading behavior, and cleaner crash statistics reporting to help us, help you!.

Help Us Keep Improving!

Help us shape the future of Second Life! Found a bug or have feedback? Please submit it via our Feedback Portal.

Thanks for being a vital part of the Second Life journey. We can’t wait to see what you create with these latest enhancements!