2026.01 by Geenz · Pull Request #5097 · secondlife/viewer

Geenz · 2025-12-03T17:44:57Z

as of = 2026-03-05 for RC deploy
build = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23e572093e-2026.01
cohort = 2026.01
deployed = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23e572093e-2026.01
desired = 3000
relnotes:

Second Life Viewer 2026.01 — Legacy Search & Stability

The Second Life Viewer 2026.01 release focuses on stability, usability, and a few very welcome quality-of-life updates. The headline change is the return of Legacy Search, (found in the World menu) alongside improvements to camera controls, snapshots, gestures, and a wide range of crash and reliability fixes across inventory, rendering, uploads, and voice.

As usual, this release also includes a substantial amount of behind-the-scenes work aimed at making the viewer feel smoother and more resilient in everyday use.

New features

Legacy Search has returned, It is not the default search and can be found in the World menu, restoring the classic search experience many residents rely on.
Added the ability to hide transparent reflection probes, with a new menu option and a default shortcut: Alt + Shift + T.
The Resident Chooser now supports searching by Agent ID, improving support and administrative workflows.

Quality-of-life improvements

The Gestures window now includes a sortable “Status” column, making it easier to see which gestures are active at a glance.
Snapshot to Inventory adds 1024×1024 as a selectable resolution.
Camera controls received multiple improvements, including better aspect-ratio handling and a shortcut for panning the camera downward.
Improved outfit list performance, especially for larger wardrobes.
Better handling of external editors, with improved fallback to the operating system’s default app when no editor is configured.
Restored support for avatar cloth.

Bug fixes and stability improvements

This release includes a broad set of fixes across the viewer:

Inventory and UI

Fixed a long-standing issue that could cause the viewer to freeze while fetching inventory.
Resolved multiple issues related to Copy SLURL, including obsolete link formats and Favorites bar behavior.
Fixed cases where @mentions could appear twice when using certain characters.
Corrected the “Don’t show me in search” option so its visual state updates properly.
Fixed an issue where the cache could be cleared on every launch if the cache location was invalid.

Graphics and rendering

Multiple crash fixes in rendering, texture handling, and LOD-related code paths.
Fixed crashes related to shader setup and attachment edge cases.
Improvements to GPU benchmarking, including better defaults on Apple Silicon systems.

Uploads

Several fixes for glTF uploads, including crash fixes and issues selecting textures during upload.

Voice (WebRTC)

Fixed crashes during WebRTC initialization.
Improvements to voice reconnection behavior after disconnects.
Adjustments to device-switching logic to prevent instability.
Fixed support for Bluetooth headsets disconnecting

Watchdog

The Watchdog system has been re-added but is currently in a disabled state. We will re-enable this in a later release.

Try it out and tell us what you think

The Second Life Viewer 2026.01 is now available to download from the official Second Life website. As always, we encourage you to try it out and let us know how it performs in your day-to-day use.

If you run into issues, please file bugs via Canny (Feedback) so they can be tracked and investigated by the team. Your reports directly help shape future releases.

Thanks for helping us make the Second Life Viewer better — and we’ll see you in the next release!

1. Dupplicate call in llselectmgr can cause race conditions 2. lltooldragndrop wasn't updating server in one case

…tchViaAis

Wrong approach. Might need to split workerDeployDevices into separate recording and rendering variants. This partiall reverts commit bb26aa3, I left log lines.

An emoji was spliting inlineview thus affecting displayed text.

Everything else uses width/height ratio

Restore Legacy Search

sFlycamPosition was using local coordinates instead of global ones thus was not tracking global changes and was force setting local position to an obsolete value.

Bumps [actions/github-script](https://github.com/actions/github-script) from 7 to 8. - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/github-script/releases) - [Commits](actions/github-script@v7...v8) --- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: actions/github-script dependency-version: '8' dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-major ... Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com> Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Bumps [actions/labeler](https://github.com/actions/labeler) from 4 to 6. - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/labeler/releases) - [Commits](actions/labeler@v4...v6) --- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: actions/labeler dependency-version: '6' dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-major ... Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com> Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Bumps [actions/setup-python](https://github.com/actions/setup-python) from 4 to 6. - [Release notes](https://github.com/actions/setup-python/releases) - [Commits](actions/setup-python@v4...v6) --- updated-dependencies: - dependency-name: actions/setup-python dependency-version: '6' dependency-type: direct:production update-type: version-update:semver-major ... Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com> Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>

Fix wrong delimeter and log if file isn't present

Dan-Linden · 2026-02-09T21:32:58Z

2026.01 Beta 26.1.0.21522948608	Result	Comment
secondlife/iqa#609 Acceptance, Integration & Additional Tests	Passed	Passed
Overall Result	Passed	OK to ship

NOTES
Simple smoke and Acceptance testing passed.

Anti-virus false positive report:

File	Security vendor analysis
SLVersionChecker.exe	SecureAge - Malicious
slplugin.exe	MaxSecure - Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen Microsoft - Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml SecureAge - Malicious

opsec-ee · 2026-02-09T23:15:30Z

quiet cover .. I'm intrigued now.

kylelinden

2026.01 Beta approved
viewer = 26.1.0.21522948608
build = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23b4a6af57-2026.01
cohort = 2026.01
desired = 500

Geenz · 2026-02-12T20:16:22Z

deployed = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23b4a6af57-2026.01

…ONVERTPCM Use WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE and AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_AUTOCONVERTPCM to support devices whose native format differs from 48kHz stereo PCM, such as Bluetooth HFP endpoints (16kHz mono) and surround sound devices (5.1/7.1). Replace the event-driven render loop (AUDCLNT_STREAMFLAGS_EVENTCALLBACK) with a timer-driven polling loop to avoid a known issue where AUTOCONVERTPCM combined with EVENTCALLBACK causes the audio engine to stop signaling render events, resulting in premature thread termination. Also adds 192kHz to the supported sample rate list, uses the first closest-match format from IsFormatSupported as a fallback when no exact match is found, and applies the same changes to the recording path.

like mainloop does

Fix bluetooth audio dropout issue

Dan-Linden · 2026-02-19T19:31:08Z

2026.01 Beta 26.1.0.21999748351	Result	Comment
secondlife/iqa#610 Acceptance, Integration & Additional Tests	Passed	Passed
Overall Result	Passed	OK to ship

NOTES
Simple smoke and Acceptance testing passed.

Anti-virus false positive report:

File	Security vendor analysis
SLVersionChecker.exe	SecureAge - Malicious
slplugin.exe	MaxSecure - Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen SecureAge - Malicious

kylelinden

2026.01 Beta Approved
viewer = 26.1.0.21999748351
build = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%234db12c62-2026.01
cohort = 2026.01
desired = 1000

Geenz · 2026-02-20T23:46:08Z

deployed = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%234db12c62-2026.01

Dan-Linden · 2026-02-25T03:27:37Z

2026.01 Beta 26.1.0.22359044520	Result	Comment
secondlife/iqa#614 Acceptance, Integration & Additional Tests	Passed	Passed
Overall Result	Passed	OK to ship

NOTES
Simple smoke and Acceptance testing passed.

Anti-virus false positive report:

File	Security vendor analysis
SLVersionChecker.exe	SecureAge - Malicious
slplugin.exe	MaxSecure - Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen SecureAge - Malicious

kylelinden

2026.01 Beta approved.
viewer = 26.1.0.22359044520
build = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%2344e21aa7-2026.01
cohort = 2026.01
desired = 3000

kylelinden · 2026-02-25T17:57:14Z

Note: cohort manually increased to 2k around 9am 2/24/2026

Geenz · 2026-02-25T23:56:11Z

deployed = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%2344e21aa7-2026.01

which are needed to process 'copy slurl'

There is a deadlock that looks to be caused by singleton+watchdog interactions, will resolve in 26.2

Dan-Linden · 2026-03-04T18:33:53Z

2026.01 Beta 26.1.0.22641522367	Result	Comment
secondlife/iqa#618 Acceptance, Integration & Additional Tests	Passed	Passed
Overall Result	Passed	OK to ship

NOTES
Simple smoke and Acceptance testing passed.

Anti-virus false positive report:

File	Security vendor analysis
SLVersionChecker.exe	SecureAge - Malicious
slplugin.exe	MaxSecure - Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml SecureAge - Malicious

kylelinden

26.1 Beta approved
viewer = 26.1.0.22641522367
build = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23e572093e-2026.01
cohort = 2026.01
desired = 3000

Geenz · 2026-03-05T00:07:47Z

deployed = https://github.com/secondlife/viewer/releases/tag/Second_Life_Release%23e572093e-2026.01

kylelinden · 2026-03-11T18:05:47Z

2026.01 approved for promotion to default release.

maxim-productengine and others added 30 commits October 22, 2025 00:50

#4411 WIP initial restoring of Legacy Search

d294d56

Ensure final EOF in LLProcess test (#4877)

b4090c2

Updated APR library and removed hotfix patch in APR cmake

ab3106d

#4876 Fix material not applying

6a5d4e0

1. Dupplicate call in llselectmgr can cause race conditions 2. lltooldragndrop wasn't updating server in one case

#4652 Improve switching of webrtc devices

bb26aa3

p#494 Add search by agent ID to resident chooser

0da96a5

#4411 WIP add Web tab to legacy Search

b0c9757

#4884 Crash at resetRegionCrossingTimer

0bd9e8d

#4886 Crash on LLTeleportRequestViaLure::toOstream

d0b7731

#4411 fix additional search options - category and maturity

b44074c

#4887 Fix access violation in LLInventoryModelBackgroundFetch::bulkFe…

34dcaaa

…tchViaAis

Revert "Improve switching of webrtc devices"

0e3ba50

Wrong approach. Might need to split workerDeployDevices into separate recording and rendering variants. This partiall reverts commit bb26aa3, I left log lines.

#4411 UI adjustments

4100b0c

Fix indentation and trailing-whitespace

8bcbb33

Mac build fix and clean up

84b2861

#4879 An Emoji in a display name can affect text in chat

88aa94f

An emoji was spliting inlineview thus affecting displayed text.

#3649 Incorrect camera aspec ratio

fa05510

Everything else uses width/height ratio

#3670 Add a sortable status column to the list of gestures

1d42bf7

#1112 Add 1024x1024 size to Snapshot to Inventory

bd8fe9d

Merge pull request #4900 from secondlife/maxim/2025.08-legacy-search

e2a741d

Restore Legacy Search

SL-3609 Fix camera POV jump when avatar crosses a region boundary

b22900f

sFlycamPosition was using local coordinates instead of global ones thus was not tracking global changes and was force setting local position to an obsolete value.

#4411 fix occurrences of fake BOOL

675ad41

Refactor labeler.yaml to use changed-files syntax

7d78080

Add bot* to allowlist in CLA workflow

695203b

#4931 Fix name cache callbacks not having connections

c8d08ee

#4946 Crash at setShaders

5e28a5d

Fix wrong delimeter and log if file isn't present

#4932 fix @mention being displayed twice if the name has a TM symbol

20eac2d

Dan-Linden added this to the 2026.1 milestone Feb 9, 2026

Dan-Linden requested a review from kylelinden February 9, 2026 21:33

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Geenz added the approved Thumbs up from Product label Feb 12, 2026

roxanneskelly and others added 3 commits February 12, 2026 16:08

#5084 Adjust Window's watchdog to only run after login

6065164

like mainloop does

Merge pull request #5421 from secondlife/roxie/webrtc-audio-dropout-fix

4db12c6

Fix bluetooth audio dropout issue

Dan-Linden requested a review from kylelinden February 19, 2026 19:34

kylelinden approved these changes Feb 20, 2026

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#5084 Adjust watchdog for bettet tracking of logout

44e21aa

Dan-Linden requested a review from kylelinden February 25, 2026 03:27

kylelinden approved these changes Feb 25, 2026

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akleshchev added 2 commits March 3, 2026 05:33

#3612 Fix viewer not getting 'nonexistent region' responses

ca3a23b

which are needed to process 'copy slurl'

#5084 Disable watchdog in 26.1

e572093

There is a deadlock that looks to be caused by singleton+watchdog interactions, will resolve in 26.2

Dan-Linden requested a review from kylelinden March 4, 2026 18:34

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Geenz merged commit 18db816 into main Mar 12, 2026
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Second Life Viewer 2026.01 — Legacy Search & Stability

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Bug fixes and stability improvements

Inventory and UI

Graphics and rendering

Uploads

Voice (WebRTC)

Watchdog

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