Download TeamSpeak 3.0 Beta 11

The developers of TeamSpeak are busy developing version 3.0 of their program and already released the eleventh public beta release on Monday. Available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, this program allows users to communicate with each other. It is especially popular among gamers, who can use it to talk to teammates during online games. The previous version discussed here in the Meuktracker was beta 5 and since then a lot has been done to the program:

Client Release 3.0.0-beta11

• A beta11 client is required to connect to beta13 servers
• Handle “host:port” entries in connect and bookmark dialogs. Automatically jump into the port field when typing “:”.
• Added “Make current channel default” button to bookmarks manager
• Added ability to drag&drop channels into default channel lineedit in bookmarks and connect dialog.
• Autounsubscribe now takes effect when being moved or kicked out of a channel, not only when switching oneself.
• Fixed opening filebrowser for a passworded channel, after password is entered correctly.
• Added hotkey “Master Volume” to turn “up” and “down”.
• Deactivated hotkeys “Bring to front” and “Send to back”. Because it didn’t work as intended.
• Use only one plugin API number instead of major/minor. Plugin authors, please check the now single ts3plugin_apiVersion() function in the plugin SDK.
• Exported some missing clientlib_rare function to plugins
• Reset use volume when removing user from contacts list
• Reactivated plugins in setup hotkeys
• Warn user when server version mismatches client version

Client Release 3.0.0-beta10 (never officially released)

• Added new sound notifications when a user (not own client) requested talk power and when own client was granted or revoked talk power.
• Added hotkeys “Bring to front” and “Send to back”
• Filetransfer somtimes crashed on localhost server
• Broken filetransfers in filetransfer manager can be restarted/resumed
• Filetransfer downloads from other servers are deactivated for now
• Added check if CPU supports SSE instruction set. If not, TeamSpeak will not start. This check can be disabled by passing “-nocpucheck” as commandline parameter.
• Let user confirm when canceling Identities dialog when there are changes.
• Added warning when selecting MODALQUIT hostmessage mode in the virtualserver edit dialog
• Removed assert thrown when opening options, reported by user on forum
• More verbose output when .wav files failed to play (especially which file was not found). Should help soundpack authors.
• Removed double quotes on channel creation
• Fixed displaying images in channel info
• Escape “]” in ts3file links when drag&dropping from filebrowser into chat
• Updated bundled apps.ini
• Removed some fields from info frame on the right
• The chattab close button didn’t appear when the tab was closed and a new message arrives on this tab.
• Workaround for the occasionally broken horizontal line after reloaded chat
• Bluesky minor fixes
• Fixed crash in Lua plugin when using “/lua run” without function parameter.
• Prevent chatlog from getting double entries
• Added option to disable muting when locking screen. It is enabled by default. (Windows only feature)
• Plugin can now decide if it wants the configure option called from a new thread or the Qt GUI thread. See the ts3plugin_offersConfigure() function in the plugin SDK for details.
• ServerQuery window: If no login data was given in the “Manual” setting in the loginname/password input fields, skip login command instead of sending empty strings.
• Token Manager now shows the creation time and also the description.
• A token description can be entered, when adding a token.
• Revert to default soundpack if the soundpack from config file does not exist
• Fixed ASSERT thrown when uploading files with drag&drop on Mac OS X.
• Fixed renaming client or channel. The rename box does no longer get smaller than the text if some changes occur in server tree.
• Fixed capture URLs
• Fixed use of bb codes
• G15 plugin now requests server variables once per minute instead once per second to reduce traffic.
• Client no longer requests server variables on login but only on-demand to reduce traffic.
• When in filebrowser list- mode are just directories, the header label “Size” was cut off when its not default (english) language
• Removed double quotes when edited a channel. Inserted client clickable link in “renamed” message
• Added hotkey “grant next talk power”
• Talk Power can also be granted and canceled by double clicking the request talk power icon
• New ts3server:// parameters:
  • “token=”: Will send token to server on connection
  • “addbookmark=”: Requests to add the link to the users bookmarks (with confirmation) with the specified server label instead of connecting to the server
• Added confirmation dialog when removing clients from servergroups
• Display group name in the group-delete confirmation dialog
• Disable bookmark autoconnect when starting the client via ts3server:// link
• Fixed splitting escaped channel path string
• Ensure connect-to hotkey is executed only once in current serverview
• Updated plugin.h sample code for C++ compilers
• Fixed possible crash when exiting the client while ServerQuery window is open
• Ensure ServerQuery “quit” is sent only once when closing the window
• The chat timestamp section will no longer be wrapped if someone sends a huge text without spaces.
• Stripped out more bb code to avoid the appearance of urls or images
• Removed double escaping of meta data in clients info
• Clients can also be banned when they are just gone offline. Click clients name at disconnected message.
• Limit various client text input dialogs to server-defined max length.
• Trim whitespaces of client and channel nicknames
• Optimized banner animation code. Added workaround for image files with 0 ms animation delay to prevent them eating up all CPU cycles.
• Adjusted add ban dialog tab order
• Fixed glance button not resetting properly when switching server tabs
• Typo fixes, updated German translation
• Fixed Escape key in Mac hotkey dialog, wasn’t detected properly to abort the hotkey input
• Fixed hotkey input window sometimes not getting the focus on Mac
• Ensure at least the default hotkey profile is loaded when using voice test, else the PTT key might not be available for voice test.
• Fixed possible crash with hotkeys when closing server tabs
• Don’t request channel description when subscribing channels with clients inside
• Don’t spam “Error getting channel from channel names in Action-SwitchTo” to client protocol when not connected
• Show custom name from contacts manager even if recording. However, both custom and nickname are not shown, text would be too long.
• Windows TTS now only uses one channel instead of five simultaneous voices.
• Added sound warnings when users in your channel start/stop recording and when you switch into a channel where users are already recording.
• Show special warnings when deleting template server/channel groups.
• Improved chat autoscroll
• Chat does no longer scroll history when a multiline text was pasted and arrow up/down was pressed
• Some chat sections grayed out, where they shouldn’t
• When opening a text chat, the tab gets immediatly active
• Fixed hotkey for start/stop recording
• Added hotkeys to switch to next/previous channel but be aware, if you change too frequently, the server will take antispam measures!
• Various tweaks containing the chat – (history, bb-code, html, saving cursor positions)
• Plugin API increased to 2.0, all included plugins updated.
• Added more functions to Lua plugin
• Overhauled Token manager dialog
• Fixed missing template groups when reconnecting to server (force reload from cache when needed permissions arrived)
• Fixed grayed out channel chat and setting tabname when changing channel
• Fixed formatting of “/help” output in channel chats
• When automatically subscribing all channels on login, don’t spam log with subscribe message for each channel, just print one line.
• Improved chat text selection
• Fixed that a ban entry gets deleted when its editing fails due to permission
• Fixed chat tab order of server and channel
• Fixed a crash when 3D Sound is still open and TS3 closes with STRG+Q
• Visibility of toolbar and statusbar is now stored in configuration file.
• Contacts window now stores and restores its geometry. The sector of clients will also take the largest possible size.
• Fixed bug with request talk power that could lead to no talk power being requested even though the user issued the command
• fix “Assertion “m_pChanClients” failed at clientclientlibserverconnectionhandler.cpp:1196″ bug

Client Release 3.0.0-beta9

• In client context menu, grant and revoke talk power was separated
• Whisper List can now be set up with identical names. The path will also be shown in the list to make clear, which channel is used.
• Prevent showing of bb or html code in (meta data) info frame
• Fixed a strange chat tab behavior
• ServerQuery or other clients can no longer take over a chattab, when clientID of the recently gone chatpartner matches.
• Fixed that users no longer can display local images in chat.

Client Release 3.0.0-beta8

• Ignoring “file://” which can start local executables.
• Fixed a bug while whispering and reconnecting
• Fixed bug that could lead to the client sending UDP packets with the network interface max capacity. Only systems with an installable system clock were affected.
• Fixed small mem leak
• Fixed invalid detection of racing/flight device equipment
• Sort clients also by is_talker status in tree view

Client Release 3.0.0-beta7

• In the virtualserver edit dialog, show a warning when selecting a permanent server or channel group as default, as this will remove all users from the group.
• Fixed bug with empty server query tree items
• Support PHP banner URLs like for example: http://www.foo.com/image.php?img=bar.png
• Fixed warn-while-muted setting not loading from config on application start
• Disable autoreconnect on invalid password error to avoid ending in an infinite reconnect loop
• ServerQuery can no longer take over a chattab, when clientID of the queryclient matches the clientID of a recently gone chatpartner. (seesaw!)
• Fixed bad mirrors.ini

Client Release 3.0.0-beta6

• Mac: Fixed path to 3d_test.wav
• Client no longer ignores i_client_serverquery_view_power permission.
• TokenManager: Add Token ComboBoxes now preselect the default groups
• Updated German translation
• Prevent enabling VAD/continuous transmission via options dialog when force-push-to-talk permission is set
• Dont raise TS3 windows except filebrowser when dragging a file over any client window
• VirtualServerEdit: Save and restore window geometry
• Added error message when creating folder failed
• Fixed possible crash in whisperlistmanager when deleting channels which were added to a whisperlist
• Permissions filter now case insensitive
• Fixed handling skip flag in permissions overview
• Display “Forced” in skip column of permissions overwhen when skip is enforced via b_client_skip_channelgroup_permission
• Permissions filter now case insensitive
• 3d Sound: TestUsers were no longer multiplied when toggling 3d sound
• Channel edit event did not change the channel phonetic name
• Updater: Added timeout for 5 seconds. Otherwise the updater hangs infinite if the update server cannot be reached.
• Middle mouse button didn’t work with bookmark submenus
• Run disabled check on menus on server tab change
• Fixed crash with invalid client links
• Fixed all server connections being lost if you press a hotkey for Connect to Server
• BookmarkManager: Fixed IDs and statistics of duplicated entries.

TeamSpeak 3.0 beta 5 screenshot, click on the image for a larger version.