As we continue to look for new ways to improve the service we provide we have recently started looking into a new way of splitting the grid services up to better distribute the load each individual part of the grid service is under. The new system is currently in testing and will be deployed once we are certain that all functionality is tested and confirmed working as intended.

In the meantime we have been upgrading the grid services ...

A few days ago the automated testing system for our preconf binaries for selfhosters went live. These new binaries, unlike previously, are built automatically and tested for functionality through automated tests. This should improve the release cycle of the binaries due to manual testing often taking a few days to complete. This does mean these binaries are only tested in regards to basic functions, so some bugs may remain. New versions are up...

Community is very important to us and we are very happy to see the growing interest resulting in ever more activity. We recently hit 10000 friendships on the grid, which tells us people really enjoy interacting with one another. In order to celebrate we will hold a party in the name of friendship. This Saturday at 15:00 (3pm) grid time at the Dome, hg.zetaworlds.com/Pomsigland featuring our very own Edison Rex. We hope you can come join us and...

In order to ensure that the experience on the grid is uniform for everyone and the recent changes to OpenSim are properly supported we have, as previously mentioned, restricted access to the grid for older viewers. Please make sure to use the latest release or in some cases beta versions of your viewer of choice to make sure the changes, including EEP, estate v2 and BoM are supported properly. We will be updating the restrictions in future along...