libsecondlife News

0.5.0 is NOW!

Baba — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:45:08 GMT

The libsecondlife team is proud to announce the release of the final version of libsecondlife.

This is a maintenance release that contains over 60 new features and bug fixes since our previous release in April! This will be our last release under the name libsecondlife. Due to trademark/licensing issues with the use of the name 'secondlife' we have renamed the library to libopenmv.

Some of the highlights included in this release:

Texture Cache improves the speed of baking significantly
Improved Baking support
Improvements in Types
Improved API Documentation

A full list of new features added and bugs fixed is available in the jira changelog

You can download this release from our Downloads page. Full API Documentation for this release can be found on the Documentation page.

Our upcoming 0.6 release will provide better library organization, more re-usable components and more documentation than ever before.

To submit trouble reports please use the "Create New Issue" link in our jira issue tracker at http://jira.openmv.org.

Thanks to all the Testers, bug reporters, patch submitters and developers who contributed to this release!

Regards,

The libsecondlife team (henceforth to be known as The libopenmv Ninjas)

0.4.1 Released

Baba — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:20:12 GMT

I'm lazy so I'll just paste jradford's libsl-dev release notice.

Greetings,

The libsecondlife team is proud to announce the release of the latest version of the award winning libsecondlife library

This is a maintenance release that contains over 50 new features and bug fixes since our previous release 2 months ago!

Some of the highlights included in this release:

Our own WebClient Class (CapsClient) which fixes a number of outstanding bugs and improves performance and reliability

Once again works with mono 1.2.5

An updated OpenJpeg library which has several performance improvements over the previous version.

A full list of new features added and bugs fixed is available here: http://bug.openmv.org/changelog_page.php

You can download this release from our Downloads page: Getting the code

Thanks to all the Testers, bug reporters, patch submitters and developers who contributed to this release

New servers usher in a new high-technology era

Baba — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:51:26 GMT

OpenMetaverse is gettting some new servers to handle all the cool stuff we want to do. Recently we've run into some performance problems with the current server and that required us to turn off ViewVC until we move to some better hardware.

After the move we'll be setting up some new services including a Jira issue tracker and TeamCity continuous integration(automated builds and testing).

This should happen within the next two to three weeks.

Reverse-engineering the CRC function for UpdateInventoryItem

Baba — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:03:18 GMT

This article was written in September of 2006 by libsecondlife developer bushing. It has been salvaged from an old database and presented here for your reading pleasure

I've always been a big fan of IDA Pro, and have often just disassembled random binaries with the thing to see what it could come up with. When I saw the bounty posted, I sprung at the chance to actually do something useful with it.

As you may have guessed, I do my primary development on a PowerPC Mac, which means I end up running IDA under VirtualPC (which sucks) or on a x86 Linux box running VMWare (which sucks a little less). I ended up having to borrow a Windows-running laptop to do this, though.

Part 1: CRC table

IDA 5.0 took a while to load up "Second Life.exe" (v1.10.5.1), but it lets you start playing while it continues to process in the background. I gave it a 20-minute head start before I started to poke around.

One nice thing about trying to take apart CRC or hash functions (MD5, SHA, etc), is that they all use tables (of various sizes) which you are guaranteed to find in a binary that uses that function (assuming there's no packing or encryption -- which is the case here). CRC32's table is contained in libsecondlife in SecondLife.cs:

private readonly static uint[] crcLookup = new uint[] { 0x00000000, 0x77073096, 0xEE0E612C, 0x990951BA, 0x076DC419, 0x706AF48F, 0xE963A535, 0x9E6495A3,

New Binary Release and Documentation

Baba — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:50:17 GMT

Hot on the tails of the libsecondlife 0.4.0 release we would like to announce the availability of a pre-compiled binary version of the library for those who do not want to go through the trouble of setting up the development environment with the source code. The binary release comes in two flavors. There is a zipped release and windows installer. Both are currently very basic containing only the library and several example applications. Get it at http://www.libsecondlife.org/builds/

We also have all new updated documentation. Check it out at http://www.libsecondlife.org/docs/trunk/. Created using Microsoft's Sandcastle tool this new this updated documentation page is easier to generate so it will be updated much more often than the previous docs.

Both of these updates are thanks to jradford who has been doing a great job keeping the library running smooth.

0.4.0 Release Annoucement

Baba — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 14:43:59 GMT

The libsecondlife reverse engineering team is proud to announce all milestones for our 0.4.0 release have been met.

This release (0.4.0) contains over 60 new features and bug fixes since 0.3 released in December of last year.

Some highlights of this version:

Full Task inventory support
Terraforming support
Compact framework support
CAPS redone as a separate namespace
LLSD redone as a separate namespace
More Library documentation
Group Chat

For a full list of bug fixes and features added since our last release see: http://bug.openmv.org/changelog_page.php
* Please note Mono users will need the latest release of mono (1.9) available at www.go-mono.com

Downloading:
You can download the latest version of libsecondlife here.

Alternatively you may check out using your favorite svn client from svn://openmetaverse.org/libsl/tags/0.4.0

Reporting Bugs:
To report bugs in this version please file a ticket in Mantis, our bug tracking system at http://bug.openmv.org/my_view_page.php

Thanks to all those who have contributed patches, bug reports and ideas for this version.

Christmas Release

Otakup0pe — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:21:23 GMT

Merry Holidaze everyone. Sorry for the late release notes, there has been non stop sexy parties since Christmas Eve. We will do better in the new year. We have a release all wrapped up for the season. Download 0.3.2 or read the release notes. There are several bug fixes, and a (handy) new feature allowing you to look up parcel information based on region coordinates.

I also want to extend an incredibly gracious thanks to everyone who donated to libsecondlife over the holidays. As of this moment we have $410 that will make it's way into bounties over January. Your donations help keep our developers off the streets.

Oh, hi. 0.3.1

Baba — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:59:03 GMT

Two weeks ago is calling and it wants its source code back. Download 0.3.1 or read the release notes.

In other news, libsecondlife wants your money! You can help libsecondlife by donating via the widget at the top of the libsecondlife.org site through January 1, 2008 or directly via paypal to donate@libsecondlife.org. Contributions help keep libsecondlife running and allow developers to spend more time writing free software.

0.3 Release

Baba — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:22:14 GMT

No we were not kidding. We are actually slowly working into a release cycle. The 0.3 release is worlds ahead of 0.2, we have full working inventory, starts at task inventory. Oh and full CAPS/LLSD support. Check out the Release Notes or download the source

The SVN Structure has changed a little bit - I suggest everyone check it out. Long story short, tags/0.3 is stable (so is branches/release) and trunk/ is now where the action is.

Once again, I apologize for branches/dev and assure you it has been taken out behind the barn and shot. Hamburgers anyone ?

If you are curious about the future plans, or have ideas for new features you would like to see in libsecondlife, please take a look at the Roadmap.

SVN Reorg

Otakup0pe — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:21:22 GMT

There have been changes to the SVN structure in an ongoing effort to provide a more soothing libsecondlife experience. For more information on the underlying structure, see the SVN Structure page. Active development is no longer to be done in trunk - please keep it to the development branch. For developers, if you are submitting patches keep in mind which branch you are working on ! It should generally be either stable or dev.

Our current stable version (0.2) is based off of SVN revision 1295. This was a release soon after major CAPS/het grid work by Linden Lab. It works solid, however has the old Inventory System and is lacking the new CAPS system. Expect version 0.3 towards the end of October. For more information take a look at the Roadmap.