0.7.6 Release

=Release Notes=

General
These are draft release notes for a package which is not yet available.

Welcome to OpenSimulator 0.7.6 release candidate 1, an open-source multi-user 3D virtual environment and metaverse server platform.

As ever, OpenSimulator is a highly complex piece of software. It's very likely but not guaranteed to work and various usage scenarios (standalone, grid, hypergrid, etc.) in combination with different dependencies (e.g. different versions of mono on Linux/Mac) can produce unexpected or unstable behaviour.

If you are upgrading from a version prior to 0.7.x, make sure to read the 0.7 Release notes. There have been extensive changes in OpenSimulator from 0.6.x to 0.7.

When you are upgrading, we strongly recommend that you start off with the default configuration files and port over any changes you made to your older version of OpenSimulator.

As this is a wiki page, please feel free to update it with more information about migration or other issues as and when these come to light.

You can download this release of OpenSimulator from http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download

Known issues

 * Arbitrary key:value storage for regions has not yet been implemented for SQLite or MSSQL. This is necessary for temporary attachments settings to be persisted.  This functionality is considered experimental.
 * Regression in RLV functionality where objects given via the llGiveInventoryFolder function with a folder name with the format #RLV/~gift are still placed in the #RLV folder but now with the name still as "#RLV/~gift" rather than just "~gift". This is being addressed in http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=6311.  Any help from viewer developers on this would be much appreciated.
 * No form of prim equivalence is implemented for meshes.
 * Loading scripts from the library section of inventory does not work properly.

Requirements
OpenSimulator requires:


 * .NET Framework 3.5 when running under Windows.
 * At least Mono 2.4.3 when running under Mono (Linux or Mac). Mono 2.6.x and Mono 2.10.x onwards work well. Mono 2.8.x versions are reported as less stable in some situations. OpenSimulator should also run under Mono 3.0.3 although, as with Mono 2.10 and earlier, there are still issues when running under the optional new sgen garbage collector .  Some physics issues (at least on ODE) have been reported but we are not sure if these are still a problem on Mono 3.0.3.  OpenSimulator does not run well (and sometimes not at all) on Mono 3.0.0 to 3.0.2 (Xamarin labels all Mono 3 versions as beta at this time).

Backwards Compatibility Notices

 * This release includes database migrations but these should be backward compatible with OpenSimulator 0.7.5 (i.e. one could rollback to the previous version of OpenSimulator if necessary without also rolling back the database). However, this is not a guarantee - please always backup your data before migrating from earlier OpenSimulator versions.

Sound

 * No noteworthy changes in this release.

Instant Messaging

 * No noteworthy changes in this release.

Friends

 * No noteworthy changes in this release.

Acknowledgements
Many, many thanks to all the developers, testers and community members who contributed to this release and who help out with OpenSimulator generally. Your hard work makes this all possible.