Steam News

Steam client update released

January 14, 2009, 2:05 pm - Valve - Steam Client Update

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 Client

• Updated game overlay web browser to support generic web browsing, including web sites that use flash
  
• Fixed games list scrolling behavior with pageup/pagedown and mouse wheel
  
• Fixed GTA4 backups not restoring correctly
  
• Fixed several cases where matchmaking would not work in Left 4 Dead in using Cafe accounts
  
• Changed Friends to be enabled for Cafe accounts
  
• Removed 'view invites' dialog on startup, now clicking on a group/user invite toast will take you directly to the Community control page
  
• Fixed guest passes not showing immediately in games list
  
• Fixed case where a user would be told a guest pass had expired after they had bought the full game
  
• Improved Steam Windows Service restart logic in serveral places