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Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve

Dec 16, 2019

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

The update has been re-released on December 16th to hotfix a CPU usage problem with the Linux client.

General

Fix URL bar displaying on HTTPS pages when ‘Display Steam URL’ setting is disabled. Steam URL bar will now respect the setting unless on a page with a security issue in which case it will always show to display the error.

Fix steamwebhelper crash causes when requests are unexpectedly canceled.

Library

Allow creating shelves for shared libraries.

Disable screenshot slideshow in app hovers if Low Bandwidth or Low Performance mode is enabled.

Fix some cases where mismatched header images were cached for some games.

Fix duplicated game activity items from sometimes appearing.

Allow Family Sharing of tools.

Fix new categories created in small mode or Big Picture mode not being properly saved when switching to normal mode.

Fix recently played but disallowed by Family View games not appearing in the Recent Games shelf (or the MRU jump list) when Family View is enabled at startup.

Fix rendering of steam award images in news updates.

Remote Play Together

Hosting on Windows and Linux automatically starts a Steam Voice chat with invited players when available. Invited Friends can optionally join and accept the voice chat in a single click.

Players in the session are visible to all players for adjusting Steam Voice Chat mic volumes.

All players’ status is now updated to show that they are playing the game together in the Friends List.

Fixed host not being able to adjust the last player's input settings in some cases.

More players fit in the vertical scrolling area.

When a Remote Play Together session is already running, trying to invite a different friend to a different game allows the host to easily end the existing stream.

Game volume and fullscreen/windowed preferences are remembered across sessions for the client.

Family Sharing can now be used in conjunction with Remote Play Together.

Linux

Update steam runtime and container runtime (0.20191119.3): improved graphics drivers diagnostics.

Implement a workaround for filesystems with failing 32 bit statfs64 calls (free disk space checks).

steam runtime 0.20191210.1: gnutls update to support Proton, further improvements to steam-runtime-system-info.

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