Revision as of 12:23, 9 February 2012

Release Notes

General

• These release notes are under construction for a release where no release candidates have yet been created

Welcome to OpenSim 0.7.3.

As ever, OpenSim is a highly complex piece of alpha software. It's 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 it breaks you get to keep both pieces.

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 OpenSim 0.7.3 from the downloads page. Not yet you can't.

Known issues

• Sometimes creating body parts or clothing fails with no error message. This is not consistent - work around is simply to try again.
• In a stock Linden Lab viewer 2/3, various tabs and buttons will point back to the Linden Lab website. In particular, the profile data will try to fetch from the Linden Lab website. It's not known currently how/whether this can be changed in the stock viewer.
• No form of prim equivalence is implemented for meshes.
• Loading scripts from the simulator library does not work properly.
• Multiple attachments on a single attachment point not supported. However, in viewers which do support multiple attachments, the enforcing of a single attachment on the simulator end should be much smoother.

Requirements

OpenSim 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.

Backwards Compatibility Notices

• Due to a libomv bug fix, teleports in this release are incompatible with OpenSim 0.7.0.2 and earlier. This affects primarily Hypergrid teleports, since simulators within the same grid tend to be all in the same version. Teleports to OpenSim 0.7.1 and later should work.

Changes

Hypergrid

Services

General Simulator

Terrain

Parcels

Map

Archiving

NPC

Appearance

Inventory

Groups

Instant Messages

Scripting

Acknowledgements

Many, many thanks to all the developers, testers and community members who contributed to this release. Your hard work makes this all possible :)