[Opensim-users] OpenSimulator 0.7.6.1 and 0.7.5.1 now available

[Justin Clark-Casey]

I did 0.7.5.1 as well as 0.7.6.1 because I know there are various people who haven't updated to 0.7.6.

Of course, there are also people on older versions of OpenSimulator.  But updating more versions takes more time, which 
takes time away from fixing current problems.  Unfortunately, people on older versions have to upgrade.

Also, just to make it clear that this is not a security fix release.  If you're using 0.7.6, 0.7.5 or older 
OpenSimulator with no possibility of getting teleports from simulators running current dev code (i.e. you don't have 
Hypergrid enabled and are not attached to an open grid) then you don't need the appearance fix that these releases 
contain.  That said, 0.7.6.1 also contains a memory leak fix for default maptile generation which I've heard does have a 
significant impact when many simulators/regions are run over long periods.

On 01/02/14 15:26, Timothy Rogers wrote:
> I think it might be due to the fact, a large code change happened, and
> many grids only upgrade every other release. So this allows those
> grids running the prior to get the security patches submitted.
>
> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:19 AM, Sarge Misfit
> <fubat.enterprises at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why two versions?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 5:03 PM, ssm2017 <ssm2017 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> hello
>>> thank you for thinking about people using releases :)
>>>
>>>
>>> 2014-02-01 Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks.  As previously discussed [1], OpenSimulator 0.7.6.1 is now
>>>> available with release notes at [2].
>>>>
>>>> This is a minor point release which contains only a few bug fix changes.
>>>> The chief of these (and the reason for making this release) is one which
>>>> fixes exceptions and appearance failures if an avatar teleports from a
>>>> simulator running current development code to one running OpenSimulator
>>>> 0.7.6.
>>>>
>>>> As such, you don't need to update unless you may receive users from such
>>>> simulators via Hypergrid or if you are on an open grid (such as OSGrid).
>>>> For more details, please see [1].  That said, there is a fix for a memory
>>>> leak on maptile generation with the default generators which might be
>>>> useful.
>>>>
>>>> Because there are few changes, it will be possible to copy over existing
>>>> config files from 0.7.6.  But as always, please backup your database before
>>>> performing any updates.
>>>>
>>>> The same appearance fix has also been applied to 0.7.5.1, which is a
>>>> similar minor bug fix release on to of 0.7.5. Release notes for that are at
>>>> [3].  As yet, there are no plans to go back and patch older releases since
>>>> it's better to spend that time fixing current code.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> http://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/opensim-users/2014-January/013087.html
>>>> [2] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.6.1_Release
>>>> [3] http://opensimulator.org/wiki/0.7.5.1_Release
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>>
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