S24(5) Release

Vetr Build 3045!

3 Months and 345 Commits, fully updated as of the end of March. See below for the list of fixes , features and KV based modifications.

### 🚀 New Features

- VHACD physics integration (client-side), replacing legacy HACD;

aligned with LL’s framework but fully internal

- Inline HTTPS (S24) with C++20-safe string handling

- Hideable inventory tabs

- Improved marketplace URL detection

- Group titles updated to S32 without breaking AO logic

- Updated CAPS support to latest server expectations

- Improved star rendering for ultrawide and high-DPI displays

- Reflection probe toggle improvements for transparency debug view

- V8 KV 3D using improved code in pipeline and camera

negating the need for a helper function

### 🐞 Bug Fixes & Crash Resolutions

- Fixed blinding white screen when changing environments (#1625)

- Fixed Friend requests not showing during startup (#5454)

- Fixed PBR pipette behaviour (#5543)

- Fixed map request spam + dynamic sizing (#5558)

- Fixed missing texture issues and improved texture fetch failure handling

- Fixed reflection map occlusion (multiple passes)

- Fixed Nav Bar favourites (stale XML cleanup)

- Fixed grids.xml handling and missing texture errors

- Fixed GLTF rotation corruption (#5431)

- Fixed hollowed prim shading (#3013, #5293)

- Fixed scaled() failure guard (#5380)

- Fixed snapshot size not updating (#5376)

- Fixed fast texture cache mutex stall (#5356)

- Fixed Copy SLURL generating obsolete HTTP links (#5086)

- Fixed queued request destructor crash (#4949)

- Fixed incorrect XUI attribute “tooltip”

- Fixed plugin process parent poll crash (#4918)

- Fixed GLTF upload texture detection

- Fixed region crossing camera jump (SL-3609)

- Fixed legacy search issues (#4900)

- Fixed 1024×1024 snapshot to inventory (#1112)

- Fixed emoji display name corruption (#4879)

- Fixed bulkFetchViaAis AV (#4887)

- Fixed glTF model upload crash (#4980)

- Fixed multiple null dereferences (hover, LOD update, image pointer, teleport lure)

- Fixed camera aspect ratio (#3649)

- Fixed gesture status sorting (#3670)

- Fixed @mention duplication (#4932)

- Fixed shader delimiter issue (#4946)

- Fixed name cache callback connections (#4931)

- Fixed cut-off mask (#4991)

- Fixed visible hidden column (SL-9502)

- Fixed session shutdown detection (#4651)

- Fixed cache clearing on invalid NewCacheLocation

- Fixed wavy avatar cloth (#4963)

- Fixed updateImagesCreateTextures crash

- Fixed itemChanged crash (#4955)

### ⚡ Performance Optimizations

- Branchless AVX URL detection (high-performance bitwise version)

- More performant llmin/llmax templates (game-engine style)

- Improved vertex buffer dynamic pool assignment (S24)

- Optimized map layer logic (2026.1-based)

- Improved parallel inventory fetch handling (#5358)

- Reduced console spam (textures, decode, map, appearance, HTTP)

- Improved event polling

- Better batching for starfield and B&W VFX

- Optimized getParameterEntry* lookups (pointer-based)

- Experimental FPS gain by ignoring CAP-not-ready edge case

### 🛠️ Technical Improvements & Modernization

- Major Boost removal: replaced boost::function, boost::noncopyable,

and related utilities

- C++20 migration across the project

- Modernized filesystem (KV version of LL #5405, no Boost)

- Modernized INIT WGL (interim)

- Updated fsyspath to C++20 spec

- Updated WebRTC components

- Updated render pipeline to latest upstream (WIP)

- Updated vcpkg ecosystem (OpenSSL, libpng, libjpeg-turbo, vorbis, minizip-ng,

zlib-ng, xxhash, openjpeg)

- Added custom vcpkg triplets for static/dynamic CRT clarity

- Improved build scripts for dynamic dependency handling (git + vcpkg)

- Improved auto-build detection for missing tools

- Updated Python.cmake

- Replaced LL mutex usage with STL

- Updated Windows version detection (fixed 25H2 logic)

- Updated viewer versioning and threading model (2026 → 26.1.0)

### 🎨 Rendering & Graphics

- Restored CastShadows requirement (fixes long-standing lighting bug)

- Reflection map occlusion improvements

- Shader and math alignment for upcoming 2026.3 merge

- Volume, math, and render pipeline stability tweaks

- Modernized V-Sync code

- Improved GLTF handling (rotation, materials, texture picking)

- Improved wide-aspect starfield rendering

- Improved negative/invert VFX

### 🖱️ UI / UX Improvements

- Favourites bar fixes and cleanup

- Improved environment/experience parser handling

- Cleaner XUI (warnings, missing attributes, parser fixes)

- Menu performance improvements using unordered_map

- Improved viewer menu string evaluation

- Better torn-off chat behaviour

- Improved maturity setting consistency (#5304)

- Improved map UI behaviour (less spam, dynamic sizing)

### 💾 System, Cache & Session

- Improved cache entry validation (S24)

- Improved invalid cache handling (S24)

- Improved Easy_028 retry logic

- Improved session shutdown detection

- Improved VRAM fallback detection for iGPUs

- Improved wearables sort order

- Improved cacheOptimize behaviour

### 📝 Logging, Diagnostics & Validation

- Demoted noisy warnings (appearance, decode, map, HTTP, texture fetch)

- Added jitter/FPS logging (#4847)

- Added texture creation failure logs (#4882)

- Improved invalid cache entry reporting

- Improved error handling for uploads > INT_MAX

- Expanded null-check coverage across multiple systems

### 🛡️ Security & Safety

- Inventory save safety checks during shutdown (#5541)

- Removed APR custom autokill patch; now using vanilla APR without LL shim spam

- Improved data-packer protection

### 🧹 Other

- Removed dead code across multiple subsystems

- Removed old files and updated CMake

- Ignored temp/autobuild directories in SVN

- Updated Windows directory handling (2026.01-based)

- General math conversions and cleanup

- General unordered_map migration

- General render, volume, and pipeline tweaks

**Binaries signed:** Codesign Serial: `4e2969400a179e151ba7323da181f8b0`

Much Love!

KirstenLee Cinquetti :)