Download Second Life 2.5.0 build 220251

You can set up a virtual life in the well-known digital world of Second Life. You can then place all kinds of objects in it to create by making good use of the built-in building tools and scripting capabilities. Those who are not very handy with creating objects can also buy them from other players who offer them on, for example, the marketplace of Second Life. For more information where all parts of this digital world are explained, we refer to this page. The developers of Linden Research released version 2.5.0 a few days ago with the following announcement:

Viewer 2.5 with Web Profiles has arrived.

Today we launched Viewer 2.5, now out of Beta. The most significant update is a new, web-based profile system, which allows profiles to be viewed and edited both on the web and in the Viewer. For example, here’s mine. Please note this is just a starting point for the web-based profiles; we’ll be doing a lot of work to refine the usability and make them richer over time.

In response to your feedback from the early beta versions of Viewer 2.5, we’ve added some privacy settings that will allow you to control just how public your profile is. Once you’ve logged in, click on “Privacy Settings” in the upper right corner of your profile. Group settings set in the Viewer will be overridden by these group privacy settings.

• “Everyone” means that the information is available to the whole Internet and can be picked up by search engines.
• “Second Life” means that the information is available to all Second Life Residents who are logged into the website or inworld. This is the default for all existing Residents using Viewer 2.5.
• “Friends” means that only your Second Life friends can see the information on the web and inworld.

This is why we have a beta process–to address concerns and improve your user experience. We will continue to iterate as we get more feedback. Thank you for all your help and comments. Please attend the Viewer 2 User Group meetings if you would like to share your thoughts and feedback directly with me and the Snowstorm team.

Viewer 2.5 also has some other new features. The one I like best is that you can now have your Favorite landmarks also appear on the login screen, so that you can log directly into your favorite locations. Torley made a video about this, so check it out! We’ve also improved some texturing performance and fixed another batch of bugs. Watching the internal data, we’ve already seen a noticeable improvement in stability and performance–on par with Viewer 1.23.

Download Viewer 2.5, try it out, and keep the feedback coming! And, if you Twitter, please use the hashtag #slviewer2.

Viewer 2.5 Release Notes