Today is my last day at Linden Lab! It's been an awesome nearly 10 years. In an increasingly channelized digital environment Second Life remains one of the few platforms where creativity, exuberance and natural social connection is encouraged and supported.

Big news for Mac users! Second Life now runs natively on Apple Silicon — faster, smoother, and more efficient than ever. Up to 64% faster performance on M-series Macs! Read more ➡️ second.life/technews1025

🕵️ This release also adds LookAt privacy to the official viewer , timestamped snapshots and a bunch of other small features and improvements.

Ready to level up your Second Life voice chat? We’re testing our new WebRTC Voice service across the grid, and you can try it now in our dedicated test regions. Estate owners can also request to upgrade their regions today. 📣 Learn how to join: second.life/technews082725

Second Life New Release: 2025.05 - glTF Mesh Import More details at: second.life/technews081825

Open source project: we're looking for proposals to replace our custom-built dependency management tool with a commodity solution. Are you interested? Faster build times, less maintenance, simpler viewer development environment setup. github.com/secondlife/v...

We're looking to reduce the delta between the official viewer and third party viewers by adopting common features and undoing historic wrongs. If done well, this will ease maintenance for all viewers.

Another piece of good #secondlife news: We fixed the long-standing problem with being unable to log back in after a crash, and our latest data shows that it is helping about 6 to 8 thousand people each day. Have you noticed improvement to relogging after a crash?