Upcoming Changes... client beta10, server beta13

[R. Ludwig]

Client

=== Client Release 3.0.0-beta10 - xx Jan 2010
* Let user confirm when cancelling Identities dialog when there are changes.
- 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 cancelled by double clicking the request
  talk power icon
* New ts3server:// parameters:
  - "token=<token>": Will send token to server on connection
  - "addbookmark=<Server label>": 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 taborder
- 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
  client\clientlib\serverconnectionhandler.cpp:1196" bug

Server

=== Server Release 3.0.0-beta13 xx Jan 2010
- fixed 64bit database id mismatch
- reject big packets which could lead to server criticals
- fixed bug where none permanent groups wont display members
- channelgroupclientlist returns ERROR_database_empty_result
- fixed talk power can be granted without permission
- fixed not checking max bantime correclty
- fixed bug where group members / permission where not removed from database
- client request talk message size limit increased to 50 characters
- correctly reject talk requests with oversize message
- when manually adding a ban apply this ban to all matching clients that are
  currently connected
- work around convert error that could occure when setting some values to "-1"
  on some glibc versions
- fixed clientdbdelete not checking if client is online and removing all permissions
- respect b_client_ignore_bans on renames also
- fixed filetransfer permission checks
- fixed bug where it was not possible to connect via query if VIRTUALSERVER_MAXCLIENTS was set to zero
- fixed accounting deadlock which could occur while shutting down an virtualserver
+ added virtualserver_port to servercreate output
+ added new permission PERMISSION_b_virtualserver_custom_search
+ added query command customsearch (please check docu)
+ added sqlite PRAGMA integrity_check on startup
+ added table custom fields
+ tokenadd can take optional parameter tokendescription and tokencustomset
+ token table extended with token_created, token_description, token_customset fields
+ added query ip whitelist, entries wont be affected by flood protection
+ added command line option query_ip_whitelist (default query_ip_whitelist.txt)
+ added CLIENT_IDLE_TIME to clientlist (parameter -times)
+ added channel id to clientinfo, ident: cid
+ server accepts token while connecting
+ added checks for default/template groups
+ disconnect query after to many failed password tries
+ complain added to flood protection (middle)
+ added virtualservers_total_maxclients, virtualservers_total_clients_online, virtualservers_total_channels_online to hostinfo
+ added servergroups got default permission PERMISSION_b_group_is_permanent
+ added servergroups/channelgroups got default permission PERMISSION_i_group_needed_modify_power (current clients PERMISSION_i_group_modify_power is used)
+ new permission PERMISSION_b_virtualserver_modify_min_client_version
+ new virtualserver property VIRTUALSERVER_MIN_CLIENT_VERSION
+ windows crash dump wont display an dialog box anymore
+ added check to prevent deleting needed template groups
+ server shutdowns gracefully under windows while closing console window
+ added flood protection for serverquery
+ added SERVERINSTANCE_SERVERQUERY_FLOOD_COMMANDS, SERVERINSTANCE_SERVERQUERY_FLOOD_TIME, SERVERINSTANCE_SERVERQUERY_BAN_TIME to instance properties
! you cant remove clients from groups which do not
  belong to your virtualserver (postponed feature)
! make sure that the changes below reflect your setup else you will break your server
+ added SERVERINSTANCE_TEMPLATE_SERVERDEFAULT_GROUP, SERVERINSTANCE_TEMPLATE_CHANNELADMIN_GROUP,
  SERVERINSTANCE_TEMPLATE_CHANNELDEFAULT_GROUP this properties are used now while creating
  a new virtualserver for selecting the needed groups.

thats until now, more will follow until release... (we dont know yet a time for next release, need more testing time)

thanks,
ts team!

[R. Ludwig]

updated 08.01.2010 18:27 CET

[R. Ludwig]

updated 11.01.2010 18:51 CET

[R. Ludwig]

updated 14.01.2010 16:57 CET

estiminated release will be: 18.01.2010 (monday), after that release we will serve new builds more quickly again.