We at Planet TeamSpeak are happy to announce the availability of a new website dedicated to TeamSpeak. The project called TSF (TeamSpeak France) was started by Bloody-wave - one of our community members and is intended to be a first resource for the french TeamSpeak community.

On the TeamSpeak France website, you'll find the latest news related to TeamSpeak and french versions of various third party applications and scripts. As a special feature, TeamSpeak France is also providing translated versions of the TeamSpeak 2 Connection Test and TeamSpeak 2 Backup Utility websites.

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TeamSpeak France website

TeamSpeak France forums

During the last two days, several users of Avira AntiVir have informed us of a possible virus issue with version 1.1 of the TS Admin-Client. The antivirus solution reports the TS Admin-Client's main executable as a virus called SPR/Tool.TSAdmin. It seems like the application has been added to Avira's signature database on October 9th, 2007 at 17:23.

This is a false positive - meaning that there has never been any malicious code in the TS Admin-Client. We've already sent an email to Avira hoping that this issue can be resolved without any more inconvenience.

Update - 15 October 2007

Today, we've received an email from Avira. The TS Admin-Client will be removed from Avira's signature database with one of the next updates.

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AntiVir Virus Definition File History

This morning, the official TeamSpeak website has received a major update. TeamSpeak.com is now coming up with an entirely new design and a massive amount of new content. Like all previous versions, the new website is based on a self-made Content Management System which is now capable of handling multiple languages. The german content is currently beeing prepared and will be published soon.

With the launch of the new website, the TeamSpeak team officially announced TeamSpeak 3 - their upcoming, next generation product. Apart from the information presented in their blog, the new content reveals that there will be a TeamSpeak 3 Corporate Edition (CE) which features encrypted VoIP technology. TeamSpeak 3 CE is intended as business version of the core product and will not be available until sometime after the initial TeamSpeak 3 core product and SDK is released.

Some of the other important new features of the website are the new Market Share and Media Kit pages. To take a look at the new website, please follow our related links.

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Official TeamSpeak website

Today, Ralf Ludwig - one of the lead developers at TeamSpeak Systems - has published a video of the TeamSpeak 3 client application in the official forums. The 15 second video shows the functionality of the new tray icon which now indicates your current status.

The video also shows some impressions from one of the icon sets which are currently used by the TeamSpeak 3 client. Please note that TeamSpeak 3's current development status is ALPHA so all features shown in this video may differ from those in the final product.

We've uploaded the file to the Google Video website. Click on the link below to see it.

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View the video on the Google Video website

Those of you who sometimes check out the press releases on the official TeamSpeak website might already have noticed that a new atricle has been published a few days ago. TeamSpeak Systems is now an official sponsor of the SC Riessersee ice hockey team in Germany for the upcoming season 2007-2008.

As part of the sponsorship, the official TeamSpeak logo appears right on the Olympia Eishalle's bully circle which can be seen by almost any location within the stadium's seating. The Olympia Eishalle is host to more than 300000 annual visitors. TeamSpeak Systems has booked 20 meters of banner space in the Olympia Eishalle and is planning on continued support for future SC Riessersee seasons.

On a side note the article also mentions that TeamSpeak 3 is now scheduled for release in early 2008.

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Press Release on TeamSpeak.com

We're proud to introduce that Planet TeamSpeak has acquired additional domain names. Our website can now be reached at the following additional three domains:

• www.planetteamspeak.de
• www.planetteamspeak.net
• www.planetteamspeak.org

When you're using one of these URLs, you'll automatically be redirected to planetteamspeak.com which is still used as primary domain. The DNS server records for the domains have been set, but there will be a propagation period of 24-72 hours whilst the update spreads across.

On a special note, we'd like to thank ^^kev### for providing us with the planetteamspeak.de domain.

We're sure some of you have noticed the recent, high rate of URL spamming on TeamSpeak 2 servers. The scenario is always the same: An unknown user connects to a server using an URL as nickname. We know that there are several applications and scripts out there that will automatically kick or ban the user, but the URL will still be seen by others in the clients chatlog.

To avoid this issue, Steven has created a small proof of concept application called TSQueue which uses the Linux netfilter userspace packet queue to parse all login packets sent to your server by a TeamSpeak 2 client. If the nickname includes www. or http://, the application will overwrite the nickname with a pre-defined value.

The application is released under the GNU General Public License, so you're allowed to modify, copy and redistribute the source code.

If you have any thoughts or feedback regarding the application, please feel free to contact us.

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Download TSQueue 0.1 for Linux 

According thread in the Planet TeamSpeak forums

After some intense testing sessions, the TeamSpeak team has released another update for the TeamSpeak 2 server series. The new release carries version number 2.0.24.1 and includes fixes for several \0 char exploits in the TCP query interface which could cause database corruption.

A full distribution package will be released soon if no more bugs are found.

Downloads are available from our download area or the official TeamSpeak website.

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Download TeamSpeak 2 Server 2.0.24.1 BETA for Windows

Download TeamSpeak 2 Server 2.0.24.1 BETA for Linux

Original thread on TeamSpeak.com