TeamSpeak 3 Server 3.1.0 released

[Chris]

We're happy to announce that server 3.1.0 is now available.

Server 3.1.0 brings a new accounting and licensing system. Every server will now require a license to run, a default license for 1 server and 32 slots is included in the server.

We've changed our versioning scheme with this release. The 4th digit was dropped and we'll be switching to use patch version increases for maintenance releases, minor version increases for features.

Important:
You will have to accept the server license agreement before being allowed to use the server. See doc/server_quickstart.txt in the server download or this FAQ for information on how to do that. If you attempt to start the server without accepting the license you will get an error log file created with instructions as well. On Linux systems this information will also be printed to console. The license can be found in the LICENSE file or license.txt (depending on platform).

Accounting communication is now HTTPS, so adjustments to your firewall rules may be required! Please see this FAQ. This also means that root certificates are required. On Linux systems this is usually accomplished by installing the ca-certificates package, which in many cases should already be installed.

Note that future client releases will eventually not connect to 3.0.x servers anymore.

For Feedback and discussion regarding this release, please head over to this thread

Full changelog:

=== Server Release 3.1.0  14 february 2018
 ! Before you run the teamspeak 3 server it is required that you agree to our license. This license
   can be found in the file "license.txt" or "LICENSE" (depending on your platform), which is
   located in the same location as the ts3server binary (the main folder). If, after reading it,
   you agree to the license, this can be indicated in one of three ways:
   1: Create a file called ".ts3server_license_accepted" in the current working directory. The
      contents of this file are irrelevant and can be empty. For example on linux do:
      touch .ts3server_license_accepted
   2: Start the ts3server with the commandline parameter "license_accepted" set to 1. For example:
      ts3server license_accepted=1
   3: Set the OS environment variable TS3SERVER_LICENSE to "accept". For example on Windows:
      set TS3SERVER_LICENSE=accept
 ! New accounting subsystem. Please read accounting.txt in the docs folder.
 ! Windows xp and vista support has been dropped.
 - Fixed a bug where a channel could be created with a password without the needed permission.
 - fixed some performance issues when copying a server group
 * Accounting server Documentation updated
 + New property 'virtualserver_nickname' allowing to add the server nickname
   into the server settings. Changes to the new property are only possible by
   users with the new 'virtualserver_nickname' permission.
 + New parameter 'wait_until_ready' in ts3db_mariadb.ini that specifies in
   seconds how long the ts3server should wait for the database to become
   available.
 * Released under new license. See accompanying license file.

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