3.1. Server minimum Client version?

[Dimos]

What will be the minimum Client version for 3.1 servers?

The client 3.1.6 should be a no-brainer in my opinion, because as of this version user are able to connect via the new myTeamspeak Nickname feature, one of the biggest user experience feature update for TS3 in the last years.

So I really hope 3.1.6 will make the cut as minimum required version to join the new servers.

Would make little to no sense for me to not force it, because then you still can't advise the Nickname for your TS3 server freely, because some user will get errors when they try to connect via a Nickname in a old client and wont understand it, since thier friends can connect just fine.

[numma_cway]

If they make such requirement, it will also be for the new copy protection, which was added in 3.1.6.

[Dimos]

If they make such requirement, it will also be for the new copy protection, which was added in 3.1.6.

Can you explain that a little further? I Don't know what you mean with "copy protection" and if this argument is pro 3.1.6+ as minimum version or against it.

[dante696]

Update:

PC Client 3.1.6 will be the minimum version that is needed to connect to server 3.1
Same counts for released Android 3.1.6.1 and iOS Client 3.1.26.

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As explained in the other thread:
The final decisions to allow connection of client 3.1.5 or 3.1.6 is not made yet.
But the decisions will not depend on the server nickname feature. We released that feature already.

Till our server will force client 3.1.6 (or newer):
You can force your users to use the latest client on your server to solve your problem.
The command in Server query is serveredit virtualserver_min_client_version=1502873983

Edit

what you mean with "copy protection"

* Support for new server license features.
you can find that in the client changelog.

Edit 2
Numma meant sth. different but already active here. See post below mine.

[numma_cway]

The copy protection is also called blacklist2.

[dante696]

That's not a copy protection.
The new and old license systems are kind of copy protections.

[Dimos]

What messages does a user get when he tries to join with a banned client version? Is it a generic one or does it state the reason?

Becaus if it says like "Your client version is not allowed/banned on this server" it doesn't sounds nice or even welcoming

But if the 3.1 default message (which I guess you guys will have for the 3.1 servers) and which will probably reads as "Your client version is to old to join this server, please download the new version Here" gets triggert its much more informative and friendly. But well thats just my opionion.

But even the fact that the new Blacklist/Greylist and licensing feature were added in 3.1.6 are just more reasons to choose 3.1.6 or even 3.1.7 as minimum version.

Why not get ride of old burdens and make some kind of restart/refresh from this point on. I don't get it.

[dante696]

What messages does a user get when he tries to join with a banned client version?

But even the fact that the new Blacklist/Greylist and licensing feature were added in 3.1.6 are just more reasons to choose 3.1.6 or even 3.1.7 as minimum version.

As said before there is no final decision made yet.

[Dimos]

Okay, if thats the current error message you get when your client version is banned I'm ok with it, kinda.

As said before there is final decision made yet.

And what decision is it now?

[dante696]

i missed a word. "no" was missing ....

Please wait till we release server 3.1.
Maybe we reply before that release

[Dimos]

i missed a word. "no" was missing ....

Okay, nvm then

[numma_cway]

In some way blacklist2 is a kind of copy protection. Eventually, all kinds of copy protection in terms of "running an application" can be circumvented. But then you would eventually (as soon as you get blacklist2ed) have to have all users circumvent blacklist2, which will be too hard to achieve for most communities.

If they set the minimum version beyond 3.0.19.4, they will lose users of Windows XP and Vista, which aren't that many (0.5% of playerbase), but they exist. inb4: Yes, they are outdated and no longer supported unless you identify as cashier system.

[Dimos]

If they set the minimum version beyond 3.0.19.4, they will lose users of Windows XP and Vista, which aren't that many (0.5% of playerbase), but they exist. inb4: Yes, they are outdated and no longer supported unless you identify as cashier system.

Well, I can't find it right now, but I'm quiet sure that it was said somewhere (by Dante) that 3.1 server need atleast 3.1.x clients anyway. So that decision was already made. I guess.

I mean you also just said the other reason, don't use a deprecated OS that won't get anymore support from either Microsoft or TS3.

And this is also one of the few reasons I understand and I am ok with to drop support for so the other 99,5% can profit from it.

In other words. If only 0.5% of my userbase profits from it I will not keep the legacy stuff for this small fraction only to let others "suffer"

[numma_cway]

Because blacklist2 has a hivemind aspect (thanks to submitting IPs, DNS and virtual server ID, which allow tracking illegal servers), it would make little sense to set the requirement for anything below 3.1.6.
They also announced that an upcoming client might reject connecting to 3.0 servers.

[dante696]

I brang up the topic up in our Meeting and we made a decision.

PC Client 3.1.6 will be the minimum version that is needed to connect to server 3.1
Same counts for released Android 3.1.6.1 and iOS Client 3.1.26.

Edit
Client 3.1.6 will not reject connecting to old server.
Unreleased client 3.1.7 also connects to the old server but with a little chance that this may change when a beta was released (no release date yet).