Re: Documentation: Contents of Kitely's blog posts
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:17 pm
July 2015
Updated to OpenSim 0.8.2 Dev
August 2015
New Tools for Fixing Slow Scripts
September 2015
Maintenance Release
November 2015
Improved Offline IMs and Friend Requests
December 2015
Big Kitely Worlds Will Soon be Converted to VarRegions
Updated to OpenSim 0.8.2 Dev
- Updates brought in from OpenSim 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 (Dev)
- Script changes -- two new OSSL functions (osForceOtherSit, osGetGender) plus new and improved LSL functions (llCastRay, llGetGeometricCenter, llGetBoundingBox, llGetEnv)
- Other notable changes -- change to how terrain updates are handled; performance metrics; World managers can "kick" a user via the Estate Management dialog; "Grab" objects via control+drag to move them and control+shift+drag tp rotate them; etc.
- "This change will make it much easier to pick up items in other grids and be sure that they will be allowed to enter and leave Kitely freely."
- Updated list of supported OSSL functions to reflect new functions and permissions
- Bug fixes -- Transfer Stations work again (fixes bug that came in 0.8.2); Group access to worlds now works for Hypergrid users too; short form kitely.com:8002 allowed in World Map search, but using the full form grid.kitely.com:8002 is recommended
August 2015
New Tools for Fixing Slow Scripts
- How to fix slow worlds
- Find and fix slow scripts
- New script features will be contributed to OpenSim
- Other improvements -- continued work on picking up items from other grids and having them remain Exportable; Group lists now show online members, or the last time members were online; OSSL function osKey2Name now returns the full name (including grid) for HG users
- New "Active World" panel charts the world's performance while it is active, in terms of:
- Active Time – how long the world has been active in the current session.
- Visitors – the current number of avatars in the world.
- CPU (Number) – the current CPU usage of the world.
- CPU (Graph) – a history of the CPU usage.
- Packets (Graph) – the number of networking packets sent between the world and the viewers that are connected to it.
- "Stop world" link added
- Guide for Optimizing World Performance
September 2015
Maintenance Release
- Added confirmation dialog when "Stop World" is clicked
- Default viewer updated to Firestorm 4.7.3
- YouTube and Flickr links now allowed in Kitely Market listings
- HGing Home to Kitely megaregion from other grids now works
November 2015
Improved Offline IMs and Friend Requests
- Bug fixes that solve several problems people reported in forums
- Kitely Market analytics now show for a maximum of 3 years, instead of original 2
December 2015
Big Kitely Worlds Will Soon be Converted to VarRegions
- Historical background: Multi-region mode, Megaregions, Kitely Advanced Megaregions -- VarRegions
- What will change and what will stay the same
- What users might need to do
- Upgrade to OpenSim 0.8.2 Release
- changes to format of compiled scripts
- value for Physics FPS changed back
- #Kitely Market folder moved near bottom of inventory
- new OSSL function: osGetAvatarHomeURI (gets the address of the avatar's home grid)
- All multi-region and Advanced Megaregion worlds changed to VarRegions
- Kitely optimisations result in 10 times faster loading of an object's contents
- Additional fonts can be used in scripts, including Zapf Chancery, Arial Black, Comic Sans MS (if it's good enough to announce the Higgs...), Impact, and Webdings
- Can now search for world names with "of" and "in" in them
- Default viewer changed to Firestorm 4.7.5
- Updated to OpenSim 0.8.2.1
- Improved Kitely's inventory system for users with very large inventories
- Big worlds now properly displayed on the viewer map as online
- Teleport bug fixed for big worlds
- Testing two versions of llCastRay -- see this forum thread