Happy New Year! - S24(5) Beta 2.

 

Lets Start 2026 with an updated viewer :)

So S24(5) Vetr (Winter Update) gets rolled upto Develop 2026.01 and here is the patch list so Far:

### Build 2888 Codename: VETR (S24.5) Beta 2 (Winter Update)

**Forked from Viewer Develop / 2026.01**

#### 🆕 New Features

- NEW - WebRTC client

- New FULL marketplace and search interface update

- New Add search by agent ID to resident chooser

- New Add a sortable status column to the list of gestures

- New Add Legacy Search

- Add 1024x1024 size to Snapshot to Inventory

- Introduce menu option and key bind (alt+shift+t) to show/hide reflection probes

in transparency debug view

#### 🐛 Bug Fixes & Crash Resolutions

- Fix user not being able to reset display name

- Fix emoji warnings and missing emojis

- Fix XUI warnings

- Fix XUI parser warnings

- Fix Crash in LLToolBarView::handleDropTool

- Fix Crash at LLScriptFloater::setNotificationId

- Fix Crash in LLFolderViewFolder::setOpen

- Fix Crash at retransmitUnackedPackets

- Fix Crash at getPrimaryFormat

- Fix Crash at LLVolumeFace::createOctree

- Fix Crash at resetRegionCrossingTimer

- Fix Crash on LLTeleportRequestViaLure::toOstream

- Fix Crash at LLPluginProcessParent::poll (S24 already fixed!)

- Fix Crash cleaning LLVOCache

- Fix Crash at renderMorphMasks

- Fix Crash at getShowFolderState

- Fix Crash at webrtc's initializeConnection

- Fix Crashes when uploading a glTF model

- Fix crash on cameraUnderWater

- Fix crash on missing factory

- Fix crash in updateImagesCreateTextures accessing potentially freed image pointer

- Fix crash in updateDistance updating LOD on null mVObjp

- Fix crash in handleHover accessing null parent

- Fix access violation in LLInventoryModelBackgroundFetch::bulkFetchViaAis

- Fix texture picker using IMG_WHITE for blank materials

- Fix group ownership detection for deeded objects

- Fix SceneLoadRearMaxRadiusFraction not stored as a fraction

- Fix baked texture shared between avatars when in PBR material

- Fix gray background tiles in the Minimap (#4815) - S24 version

- Fix extra setGLTFRenderMaterial

- Fix missing Lossless check that broke sculpt upload

- Fix wrong material type when 'editing linked'

- Fix Repeat Notification Noise on Find Emoji Floater

- Fix material not applying (multiple instances)

- Fix An Emoji in a display name can affect text in chat

- Fix Incorrect camera aspect ratio

- Fix camera POV jump when avatar crosses a region boundary

- Fix device update causing a crash

- Fix webrtc crash on tuningGetEnergy

- Fix webrtc crashing in worker threads on shutdown

- Fix missing voice cleanup

- Fix @mention being displayed twice if the name has a TM symbol

- Fix error when adding a widget filename to the mFileNames stack

- Fix the cache from being cleared every launch if NewCacheLocation is invalid

- Fix Cant set cut off mask

- Fix Upload To Folder feature not working

- Fix missed am/pm switch

- Fix impractically long am/pm labels

- Fix The "Don't show me in search" option is not visually updated

- Fix alpha debug overlay rendering in probes and breaking scene lighting (#5058)

- Fix 'Copy SLURL' generating obsolete http link

- Fix group categories not being displayed when one below is expanded

- Fix The Apply button is not activated after changing a Material

- Fix Negative pixel area in object's info

- Fix typo and check for valid opened file

- Fix multi column comboboxes not honoring width parameter

- Fix failure to reconnect after disconnect and occasional dropout issue (#5126)

- Fix Animated textures freeze

- Fix Japanese Translation

#### ⚡ Performance Optimizations

- Fix performance problems with My Outfits

- Remove redundant updates in outfit list #1

- Fix accordion control's excessive rearranges #2

- Optimize outfit's onRefreshComplete #3

- A bunch of small performance optimizations

- Turn off cef preloading on low end hardware

#### 🔧 Technical Improvements & Code Modernization

- Multiple patches replace boost!

- Replace boost ptr_vector<nullable> with std::vector<std::unique_ptr>

- Replace boost::hof::invocable with c++17 std::is_invocable

- Replace boost noncopyable and undefined function usage with modern c++

deleted operator and constructor

- Replace boost::function with std::function - part 2!

- Boost::function cleanup

- Remove dead llblowfish and llmail code plus related tests

- Remove dead experimental atmospherics code left over from EEP development

- Remove dead llkeyframemotionparam and llstatemachine from llcharacter

- Use make_shared for more efficient ref counting and allocation

- Fix occurrences of fake BOOL

- Fix name cache callbacks not having connections

- Fix tabs in various source files introduced as part of legacy search

- Add missing static declaration for LLCachedControl

- Added test case for multiple columns in a combo box

#### 🔨 Rendering & Graphics

- Preserve transforms when switching PBR materials

- Improve ordering of sub-meshes upon upload

- Collada vs GLTF Mesh Import Naming Convention

- Move the irradiance gen unbind to be within the correct scope

- Disable shader profiles on RDNA3.5 to prevent freezes on startup (#4992)

- Restore support for wavy avatar cloth

- Restore pelvis rotation debug settings

#### 📝 UI & UX Improvements

- Disable ZoomIn an object item when the region is not connected to the current region

- Show torn off chat when clicking on a message popup

- Use correct search query when navigating to the page

- Make 'About' floater use real bandwidth

- Use shortcut to pan camera down

- Clear duplicate shortcut used to activate Sunrise

- SL-9502 Fix visible hidden column

- Switch 'chat' from untrusted, to click only

- Assume default material is valid for terrain assigment

- Don't scroll to a child that is already in view and can not fit

- Use correct widget name for marketplace floater

- Fix remaining cases of webbrowser-related XUI warnings

- Adjust the 12 hour Time Format

- change notification type from modal to alert

- Restore correct selection after clicking Cancel in Preferences

#### 🛠️ System & Cache Management

- Extend login timeout

- When moving the cache, the old cef_cache should be removed

- Wearables sort order reliability

- Better cacheOptimize's issue handling

- Improve session shutdown detection

- Activate group option in Group

- Fallback to OS open handler in external editor when no editor is explicitly set

#### 📊 Logging & Diagnostics

- Excessive texture fetch logging on shutdown

- Extra logging to track discard 6 - Plus clamped some values and

preventing decode from starting

- Crash at setShaders - Fix wrong delimeter and log if file isn't present

- Crash on itemChanged

- Check what state pipe is in for a failed test

- Follow-up null checks on mVObjp to prevent crashes

- Log textures that failed to be created

- Log session_jitter and period_jitter with FPS info

#### 🔐 Security & Validation

- Generate error if the asset upload is bigger than INT_MAX

- Block ability to accidentaly purge Inventory items outside of trash

- Reapplied GPU benchmark fix

#### 📌 Other Fixes

- Fix missed else condition

**Binaries signed:**  

- Codesign Serial: `4e2969400a179e151ba7323da181f8b0`

So Happy New Year - More to follow soon!

Much Love KL