in my constant struggle to keep spam bots out of the Dolphin Viewer forums I managed to finally get an in-world forum registration kiosk working, with lots of help from Jan Hajek.
Therefore the forum registrations on the website are now closed.
To register a forum account, click on the Forum registration terminal at The Dolphin Viewer Mountain Retreat and provide a valid e-mail address.
In case you do not have access to that location due to the M rating fo that region, or because you use The Dolphin Viewer only for other grids than Second Life™ , contact me.
This post only concerns those of you, who are currently running openSUSE 11.3 linux environment.
On January 20, 2012 Benjamin Brunner of the openSUSE team announced that openSUSE 11.3 has reached its end-of-life. That means that the repositories for openSUSE 11.3 are no longer available and it is no longer a valid build target.
Since openSUSE 12.1 is the version that I am working with, and there is no longer a controlled build environment for the previous version, I will not be providing any new Dolphin Viewer packages for openSUSE 11.3.
Sorry for being a bit late about it, but I haven’t been close to my build environment for almost four weeks.
Anyway, I finally managed to build a version of Dolphin Viewer 2 that incorporates the security fix for the vulnerability in the ogg libraries.
Please make sure you download and install the new version as soon as possible.
There’s nothing else new in this release.
It’s on the download page as usual.
As of May 12, 2011, openSUSE 11.2 has reached end-of-support from Novell and opensuse.org.
What does this mean for the Dolphin Viewer 2?
Simple enough: there will no longer be any rpm packages for openSUSE 11.2 available, and from now on the Dolphin Viewer 2 will be built on openSUSE 11.3.
If the linux binaries built on 11.3 do not work on your linux system, I strongly encourage you to upgrade to a newer version of your linux distribution.
The latest supported versions of the Dolphin Viewer and The Dolphin Viewer 2 are 1.5.51.3627 and 2.5.6.15005.
Please update to either of those if you have not done so already.
I won’t provide support for any version other than what’s available on the download page!
I’m aware of the security hole in the ogg libraries used in the current dolphin viewer.
Unfortunately I’m about 6000 miles away from my computer with the build environment right now, and will be until at least the end of may… so i can’t do anything.
Luckily enough the security flaw has not been exploited for any shady things as of now.
As soon as I’m back home I’ll build a 2.5.6.1 with the fixed libraries. In the meantime, switch off media playing if you are concerned about possible exploits.
After that I’ll start on integrating my patches, RLV 2.7.0.1, and 2.6.3 into the next real version.