A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed future web pages failing to render when quickly closing one earlier
- Fixed flash videos playing after the browser is closed in the overlay
- Fixed double clicking on items in a web page not registering properly
- Fixed requesting unnecessary configuration data from backend servers
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February 9, 2012 - Steam client update released
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February 7, 2012 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed roaming game categories and favorite settings being reset
- Added option to set server browser ping rate independently from download rate
- Fixed missing menu item for updating AMD video drivers
- Fixed launching of 64-bit games with "-" in the command line
- Improved in-game overlay compatibility for some 64-bit game executables
- Added ability to handle proxies that require "basic" auth when downloading games using the new content system
- Improved support of concurrent user sessions from multiple platforms
- Fixed cloud enabled games sometimes not launching until the client is restarted. Also fixed the Steam client showing a “Waiting for cloud sync” dialog at exit forever when in this state.
- Updates to workshop APIs for upcoming Steamworks games
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January 4, 2012 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Contact email address may be easily updated from any trusted computer; no access to prior address required
- Fixed deleting/re-downloading localized game content
- Improved size calculation for small font sizes in Thai
- Fixed Steam client hitching while receiving configuration updates
- Fixed disappearing DLC for game switched to new content system
- [Mac OSX] Fixed screenshots being triggered by 'A' key when the key was unbound
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December 7, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Added notification area in the main Steam window when receiving new Steam gifts, invites or coupons
- Added tray notifications for new items & new pending gifts
- Changed most options for sending/accepting gifts to be managed from the Steam Inventory
- Fixed missing CD-Key dialog for games with multiple launch options
- Fixed cloud upload failures for some games when users are near their quota
- Fixed downloading new update while game is still running
- Fixed bug that could impact content patching on Mac OSX.
- Fixed creating empty folders in some cases
- Fixed keeping "Do not automatically update this game" setting
- Fixed bug updating Game Settings -> Automatic Updates (New content download system only)
- Fixed creating backup folders for games with trailing spaces in their name
- Fixed reading backups for games converted to new content system
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November 12, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed downloading issue with "Vampire: The Masquerade"
- Fixed Steam UI hitching while downloading content
- Faster game conversion to new content system
- Made improvements to resetting account password
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November 4, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed game invites giving an error about running the wrong game when using the new rich presence system in a Steamworks game
- Fixed the "-applaunch" command line parameter not correctly running the game you indicated
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November 1, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Display your recently uploaded workshop files in TF2's game details page
- Added framework for Steam Support to send messages directly to users
- Changed 'Add Friend' button in the friends list to point to a much-improved interface for searching for friends
- Fixed a rare threading race condition based crash when pressing TAB in games using the in-game overlay
- Fixes occasional long hangs in the Valve Hardware Survey
- Update to support upcoming Steamworks titles
- Fix screenshots sometimes uploading with the wrong dimensions
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October 11, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Steamworks API updates for upcoming releases
- Screenshot Manager updates for upcoming games that provide direct screenshot support
- Fix date formatting in "last played" times for some mixed locale cases
- Allow Unicode text in secret question when set by the Steam client
- Fix for installed games in your list showing up as "uninstalled"
- Fix intermittent client lockup
- Fix games details page not always displaying screenshots for upcoming games that provide direct screenshot support
- Updates to support upcoming game releases
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September 27, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed high CPU usage in game library view
- Fixed switching into offline mode
- Fixed server browser for games using the HL1 engine
- Fix favorite games showing in server browser that don't respond to pings
- Fixed defragmentation if depot file is compressed by NTFS
- Fixed retail installer setting correct game language
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September 21, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed backup/restore for games switched to the new content system
- Fixed adding shortcuts to 3rd party games with Unicode path names
- Fixed game configuration overrides from local content servers
- Fixed stats and achievements getting out of sync with the community for users with slow internet connections
- Fixed bug where dates of friend player names weren't shown in game overlay
- Fixed crash in "Create New Account" dialog
- Fixed crash on shutdown
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September 8, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Matchmaking & networking improvements for Dead Island
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September 6, 2011 - Steam Trading Feature Is Live
Welcome to the official launch of Steam Trading, which allows you to exchange In-game items and Gifts with everybody in the Steam Community.
Now you can trade Steam Gifts and in-game items from Valve games Team Fortress 2 and Portal 2, as well as from Spiral Knights, the cooperative adventure from Three Rings and Sega. We’re working with other developers to incorporate Trading and Inventories into their games, so keep an eye out for future announcements in the coming months.
Your Steam Community profile now has an item Inventory, and you'll be able to view the Inventories of every public profile in the Steam Community.
Click over to the Steam Trading FAQ for more information, and get trading!
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September 6, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Added Steam Trade (see here: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=6748-ETSG-5417)
- Added Inventory view on Steam Community profiles, to see your TF2 items
- Added Inventory privacy controls to the Community profile settings page. You can also choose to display Steam Gifts with the rest of your inventory or keep them private (the default).
- Added Inventory History page. Accessible from a link when viewing your own inventory, this shows past trades you've made.
- Added drag-drop of items from your inventory into chat
- Added bucketing of friends in the friends list – right-click on a friend as select 'Tag as…' to organize them into categories.
- Added Brazilian-Portuguese and Bulgarian language support
- Added a much improved dialog for when a game is being converted to use the updated content system
- Added a new sound for when the other user ends a voice call
- Updated the existing dialing/ringing sounds for voice calls
- Fixed a case where Steam Guard would unnecessarily re-ask for activation in the Steam Client.
- Fixed offline mode not working if there was no remembered password
- Bumped skin version to 4
- Fixed a crash if the audio device is removed during a voice chat
- Fixed fresh installs not getting server lists from in-game
- CPU optimizations for users with very long friends lists
- Fixed the 'View Pre-Load info' menu item for games to correctly open the Pre-load info dialog
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August 1, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed "Game not available" error when starting "Sniper Elite"
- Fixed retail disc install not using all available files causing additional downloads in some cases.
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July 26, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
- Fixed downloading Sniper Elite (Error was: missing decryption key)
- Fixed Steam hanging while creating new account
- Reduces errors uploading screenshots on slow connections
- Fixed steam://openurl and steam://openurl_external links opening black pages in the existing window in the in-client browser at times (really!)
- Fixed Cloud sync errors that could occur when games were first installed on a new machine
- Fixed checking Windows Media player version when starting trailer with external player
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July 12, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Features
- Initial client side support for upcoming improved content delivery system (groundwork for future performance/reliability improvements to downloads)
- Added find text in HTML pages ( CTRL+F )
- Added “copy link” option to web browser right click menu
- Added suggested friends from Facebook display in client, if you’ve linked with Facebook
- Added the ability to push screenshots to Facebook after upload
- Additional HTTP API support for Steamworks partners
- Added check so screenshots for unreleased games can only be uploaded as private in the client.
- Added Facebook info when receiving a friend invite.
Bug Fixes
- Improved responsiveness of loading web pages in the client and in-game overlay browser
- Fixed a bug confusing cached HEAD request response with GET requests in Steamworks HTTP interface
- Improved fallback to different servers if first client connection attempt is to a down server
- Fixed a bug not immediately logging off on shutdown in some cases, leaving your state online until a timeout period was passed
- Improved line breaking/wrapping for most Asian languages
- Fixed a rare crash on shutdown in the browser control
- Fixed the store and community sometimes using English in the overlay instead obeying the user's language setting
- Improved Japanese font rendering on the Store and Community for users on Windows Vista or later
- The Steam client now detects if you’re not logged into the Steam Community or Store web pages, and automatically re-authenticates
- Fix a crash occurring if a multiuser chat got enough participants with long enough names
- Ensure user is logged in properly when accessing Steam web sites from the in-game overlay
- Facebook suggested friend UI improvements
- Fixed media playback using external player
- Prevent redeeming gifts of DLC or expansion packs for users who do not own the base game
- Fix the friend aliases dialog in the case where it’s the first time you have used it for a given user.
- The friend aliases dialog now retrieves friend aliases from the server, and now works for chat participants or group members with whom you are not friends.
- Fixed screenshot UI memory leak
- Reduced memory usage after ending a game session in which a large number of screenshots were taken
- Made the screenshot manager prioritize loading screenshots that are visible rather than just loading them from newest to oldest (so you see what you've just scrolled to if you scroll around while loading)
- Fixed steam://openurl and steam://openurl_external links in web pages not only opening the link in the default browser, but also loading a blank black page in the Steam browser.
- Fixed screenshots in D3D10/11 games with B8G8R8A8 or R10G10B10A2 backbuffer formats (Fear 3, Dirt 3)
- Fixed Team Fortress 2 not being playable in certain regions
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June 1, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Fixes Steam not waiting for an in-progress Cloud sync to complete before launching a game.
- Fixed parental control check for Games For Windows games
- Fixed an issue where a user with no friend and no invite sent would not be able to view and accept a pending invite.
- Fix game file validation when opted into a game beta
- Improved Steam Guard feedback for expired email codes
- Improved overlay compatibility with Direct3D 11 games using the latest D3D SDK version
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May 12, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Fix browser cookies not persisting across Steam client restarts
- Windows - Fix rendering of select boxes in web control being broken
- Mac OSX - Improved mouse scroll for trackpads/magic mouse
- Mac OSX - Improved Lion support
- Fix bug in local-file validation that affected some games
- Change Steam to not initialize the microphone output device when voice is used in Team Fortress 2
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April 25, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Fixed rare in-game overlay crash starting up with a group chat open
- Mac OSX - Fixed config loading/saving of steam settings from games
- Mac OSX - Fixed overlay stopping games from seeing when keys go ‘up’ after the overlay launches
- Mac OSX - Fixed rare occurrence where overlay did not track the mouse position
- Mac OSX - Fixed case where overlay could lose the root folder containing layout resources and stop displaying.
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April 18, 2011 - Steam client update released
A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam
- Mac OSX - Fix validation problems preventing some users from launching TF2