[Opensim-users] OpenSim 0.6.8 source packages now available for download

[Karen Palen]

A great Christmas Present for all of us - THANK YOU to all of the developers!

Karen

--- On Wed, 12/23/09, Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>
> Subject: [Opensim-users] OpenSim 0.6.8 source packages now available for download
> To: "OpenSim Users Mailing List" <opensim-users at lists.berlios.de>, opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2009, 1:14 PM
> Hi folks,
> 
> The OpenSim 0.6.8 source release packages are now available
> from
> 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Download
> 
> In this release, the grid service moves into ROBUST, so
> anybody upgrading from 
> 0.6.7 to 0.6.8 will need to do some configuration migration
> work.  Thanks to 
> Diva, there are instructions at the bottom of
> 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/ROBUST
> 
> for this.  I also overhauled the main configuration
> page at
> 
> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Configuration
> 
> to better reflect current configuration realities with
> 0.6.8.  I also 
> considerably rearranged the text to split instructions into
> specific 
> 'standalone' and 'grid' sections.  It's still far from
> perfect but I think that 
> it is an improvement (even if I say so myself :).
> 
> Here's an extremely high-level and subjective summary of
> the changes between 
> 0.6.7 and 0.6.8
> 
>      * The minimum level of Mono
> required to build and run OpenSim is now 2.4.2.
>      * The version of libomv used by
> OpenSim was upgraded to 0.8.0-pre.
>      * The grid service has been moved
> to the new ROBUST infrastructure.  The 
> User and Messaging servers still exist as specific
> executables.  If you're 
> moving to OpenSim 0.6.8 from 0.6.7 then there is migration
> information on the 
> wiki.  The OpenSim configuration wiki page has also
> been changed to reflect the 
> current setup situation with 0.6.8.
>      * Parcel information was added to
> OpenSim region archives (OARs).
>      * Inventory Archive (IAR)
> functionality was improved.
>      * JPEG2000 texture generation was
> considerably improved, which should mean 
> less missing texture information in general.  However,
> 64 bit users may see an 
> increase in the number of exceptions with the new CSJ2K
> code which replaces the 
> OpenJPEG library in various spots.  Bug reports are
> welcome.
>      * Considerable work has been done
> to reduce memory leaks.
>      * Excessive flailing when an
> avatar walks over very moderately bumpy ground 
> was fixed.
>      * Objects on sale at L$0 can now
> be bought.
>      * The Linden Lab Second Life
> client stack was overhauled.  This should be 
> improve server responsiveness to client requests.
>      * OpenSim's use of the Open
> Dynamics Engine (ODE) physics plugin was 
> improved to increase performance.
>      * The DotNetEngine scripting
> engine was removed.  We recommend that anybody 
> still using it migrate to the XEngine scripting plugin
> (which has been the 
> default for sometime).  This does not affect anything
> at the language level - 
> all scripts will continue to work as before.
>      * The performance and reliability
> of scene object manipulation code was 
> improved, though some bugs will remain.  Linking code
> is as yet largely 
> unchanged, hence existing object linking bugs very probably
> still remain.
>      * Prim collision meshing has been
> improved.
>      * An issue where avatars could not
> automatically land on prims was resolved.
> 
> This is duplicated from my blog post at 
> http://justincc.org/blog/2009/12/23/opensim-068-source-packages-released/
> 
> I didn't incorporate this into the release itself since
> it's inevitably somewhat 
> subjective (it naturally emphasizes the things I know most
> about or can most 
> easily learn through documentation).  A high-level
> changelog should contain more 
> perspectives - it might be possible to do that for the next
> release, or perhaps 
> it doesn't really matter.  A low-level git commit log
> is probably still better 
> than nothing so that may be worth considering too for the
> future.
> 
> Some bugs were reported against this release in RC1
> testing, in particular 
> Mantis 4351.  However, this bug is proving very
> difficult to resolve and as it 
> doesn't affect everybody I decided to go ahead with the
> release regardless 
> rather than hold things up further.  I have to
> strongly invoke the alpha code 
> disclaimer here.
> 
> I'm hoping the usual good people will produce binary
> packages and
> installers :).  I know I said this for 0.6.7 but
> judging from the rumbles in the 
> jungle I think that it is more likely to happen for this
> release.
> 
> Merry Christmas everyone!
> 
> -- 
> Justin Clark-Casey (justincc)
> http://justincc.org
> http://twitter.com/justincc
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