We are happy to announce the release of version 3.0.9 of the TeamSpeak 3 Client.

This new release comes with a new storage system for the TeamSpeak settings, which are now saved as a database instead of using multiple ini files. When upgrading to this version, old settings will be automatically converted. The now unused ini files are moved into a backup folder in the TeamSpeak config directory.
Also this release includes many improvements like more hotkeys, better support for joystick and gamepad hotkeys on Windows and many minor corrections.

Here’s the complete changelog:

=== Client Release 3.0.9 23 Oct 2012
+ Changed the storage format of the configuration files to a SQLite database.
Conversion is done automatically the first time the client is started, all
affected files will be moved to a backup folder.
+ Increased Plugin API version to 19
+ Added setClientVolumeModifier to plugin API. Min/Max volume is -50.0 to +20.0
+ Added getClientNeededPermission and getPermissionIDByName to plugin API
+ Added missing plugin API parameters for onUpdateClientEvent
+ Added parsing of channel id “cid=xyz” from invitation link. If you also give
a channel name parameter the channel id gets priority.
e.g. http://www.teamspeak.com/invite/voice.teamspeak.com/?cid=xyz
+ Added channel/client search in active server tree with STRG+F but only if
the server tree has the focus. Otherwise it is the ordinary chat search.
+ Added hotkey switch to previous/next channel (channel family).
+ Added hotkey switch to previous/next channel (same level).
+ Added hotkey request talk power.
+ Added hotkey revoke all and grant next user talk power.
+ Added revoke talk power by double clicking the tree icon.
+ Added revoke talk power and revoke all and grant next user talk power toolbar
action.
+ Added host message preview button which shows the formatted message in a
tooltip.
+ Added Hotkey Gamepad and Joystick compatibility for RAW and Direct Input.
Existing Direct Input hotkeys will be converted to Raw Input once Direct
Input is activated. Existing Raw Input hotkeys cannot be converted so they
have to be reassigned.
+ Added date and time to server log (“*** Log begins…”).
+ Added bookmarkmanager context menu “sort by name”.
* After deleting an offline message the next message will be selected.
* Moved possible existing serverquery authlogin and authpassword from
ts3clientui_qt.conf to ts3clientui_qt.secrets.conf.
* Added Made in Germany icon in About dialog.
* Chat character counter always located left of newsticker.
* Client drag&drop improvements.
* Added -silent commandline parameter to package installer.
* Package installer stores installed add-ons in addons.ini
* Modified tree behaviour to avoid scrolling up/down constantly on crowded
servers.
* Modified chat scrolling behaviour to keep the chat textoutput in place when
new messages arrive while being scrolled up or having text selected.
* Added [hr] bbCode support to channel description.
* Added save and restore last ban reason when banning a client.
* Added offline subject and message character limit.
* When dropping many files into chat line the drop text will be just cut off at
the end because of the chat line limit. When dropping many files into chat
history and the message length would fit into two separate lines, the drop
will be accepted. If the drop text is too long it will be ignored.
* Small icons will get extended and centered to at least 16×16.
* Added license display to server info (SERVER_LICENSE for template)
* Extended logging for querying TSDNS SRV records.
– Fixed context menu in channel description edit.
– Fixed HTML entities in plain chat log.
– Fixed embedding local server banner URL in [IMG] tags is no longer necessary.
Just drop an image from file filebrowser or type a valid ts3image:// link.
– Fixed connecting to server via ts3server:// link or invitation if link
contains a channel name.
– Fixed a reply offline message coloring issue.
– Fixed hotkey compatibility issue with keys “M” and “N”.
– Fixed hotkey issue with “keyboard & mouse only” (no keys were captured).
– Fixed display of resized animated banner.
– Fixed possibily blocking ban dialog time display.
– Don’t allow negative ban times.
– Fixed icon viewer grid size, which could be broken after uploading icons
which don’t have the standard size of 16×16.
– Updated b_client_is_sticky permission help text.
– Fixed unicode usage of updater uncompression tool.
– Fixed servericon not updating properly in chat tab.
– Removed legacy VAD option from capture options.
– Clear temporary statusbar message when typing chats, the max characters
counter could overlap with tempoary help texts.
– Fixed possible crash when using the -nohotkeys parameter.
– Removed built-in serverquery Window. Future server versions do not support
this anymore.
– Fixed max input length calculation for channel description and offine
messages when using unicode and escaped characters.
– Fixed group sorting in channel groups of client dialog.
– Fixed saving sort column and sort order in offline messages dialog.
– Fixed that channel description editor only shows plain text.
– Fixed plugin enable/disable checkbox at plastique style.
– Fixed joining servers default channel if bookmarks default channel is full.
– Fixed copying text from info frame if text is formatted with [list] tag.
– Fixed background when dragging files from file browser.
– The offline message dialog can be opened once per server and will act on the
servers state.
– Fixed upload/download state after resuming a transfer interrupted by error.
– Fixed transfer state after resuming an interrupted transfer and also the
transferred size.

All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to version 3.0.9. For source downloads please visit our downloads page, or simply use the auto-update feature through your existing client.

As always we’d love to hear from you about your experiences. And we are always available to help with issues you may encounter. Please feel free to drop us a line in our community forums if you have any questions or feedback.

Thank you!