[Opensim-dev] OpenSim 0.6.1 Alpha released

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Hi folks,

OpenSim 0.6.1 has been released.  This is the same source code as trunk revision r7840.  As with all past releases, this 
is an Alpha release, so please expect incomplete features and only modest stability.  This is a normal 'unstable' 
OpenSim release (recent opensim-dev discussions about branches or unstable/stable release cycles do not apply to this).

There are numerous improvements and bug fixes in pretty much every area for this release, but the major changes since 
0.6.0 (r7176) include

* Improvements to attachments, animation overrides, friends and presence handling, hud support, linkset support, object 
return, terrain handling, object meshes, object persistence, permissions, object save to inventory, etc.

* Various scripting improvements, including a switch by default over to the XEngine script engine, that appears to 
currently be yielding better performance than the previous DotNetEngine.

* Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) improvements.

* Introduction of the Hypergrid, an experimental grid architecture (http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Hypergrid).

* A major security fix so that insecure non-LSL script compile (C#, Visual Basic, etc.) is not enabled by default

A more detailed rundown can be seen by looking at the SVN logs directly.  For my sins, I also produce a weekly 
development summary which contains a higher level summary (though considerably lower level than the bullet points 
above).  The relevant period is from

http://justincc.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/this-week-in-opensim-dev-week-ending-saturday-15th-november-2008/

to

http://justincc.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/this-week-in-opensim-dev-week-ending-saturday-27th-december-2008/

Regards,

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justincc
Justin Clark-Casey
http://justincc.wordpress.com