This Week in Open Sim Development Week Ending Saturday Dec. 6th 2008

This week in OpenSim ( r7547 – r7632 )

General news

• At the time of this post we are running version 7601

Features & bug fixes

• idb improved the avatar height calculation in the Basic Physics and Physics Of Simplicity physics engines (r7557).
• MW stopped it being possible to bring down a grid server merely by sending it corrupt XML data (r7562).
• justincc resolved problems persisting some prims in the database by stopping storage or retrieval of the parent local ID field, which was unused anyway (r7586).
• mpallari contributed an update to the make the NHibernate database backend option useable.  This now means that OpenSim requires an extra dependency on Linux systems, otherwise it will complain about a missing System.Data.Oracle namespace on startup.  See this wiki page for more details (r7604).
• Godfrey contributed a patch to fix llTriggerSound() (r7589).
• Melanie fixed a bug where no copy objects would be lost if attached (r7608).
• Melanie fixed a bug where scripts were not stopped if they were removed from a prim’s inventory (r7611).
• idb implemented the llDetectedTouchBinormal(), llDetectedTouchFace(), llDetectedTouchNormal(), llDetectedTouchPos(), llDetectedTouchST(), llDetectedTouchUV() (r7621).
• Melanie added code to enable region crossing for scripts such that they will stay active in the new region.  For this to work, both source and destination must be configured to allow script crossing.  See the AllowScriptCrossing and TrustBinaries settings in OpenSim.ini.example (r7624).

Infrastructure

• Melanie added extra hooks in the Permissions module.
• Sean, Melanie and Diva worked on region crossing and teleporting issues (e.g. no texture downloading when a region is re-entered from another region).

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