An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Strange misc-slot items that are tradable can now be listed on the Steam Community Market
• Updated The Bearded Bombardier and The Bolted Bombardier so they can be equipped with glasses

Community request:

• Added modelscale and SetModelScale input to Studiomodel so map authors can use them to scale models

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the "Halloween 2013" tag overlapping with the "Sound Device" tag in the Steam Workshop publish UI

It's just over a month until the scariest day of the year, but you'd never know it by looking at the TF2 Workshop. No, suddenly everybody's too cool to be so scared of Halloween that they're even scared of it 42 days before it happens. Well, gather round the campfire and let us tell you a story about somebody else who thought he wasn't scared of Halloween just because it wasn’t anywhere close to being Halloween. He was at his wife's office building for a Christmas party, and he thought he was in the clear, because that's like ten months away from Halloween, right?

Wrong. A whole team of ghosts took over the Christmas party, and he was caught so unprepared by how incredibly scary they were that his shoes flew off and he hid in an elevator shaft so the ghosts couldn't scare him anymore, but it turned out the ghosts were just after money.

That man was Bruce Willis in the haunted house classic Die Hard, and it should teach you a valuable lesson about showing a little advance respect for Halloween. And you can show that respect by designing and uploading scary workshop items for this year's upcoming Halloween event. We're only going to ship items marked with a "Halloween 2013" tag, so remember to tag your holiday-themed items when you submit them. (You can re-upload old Halloween items that weren't accepted last time and mark them with the "Halloween 2013" tag for reconsideration.)

Also remember that anything you submit with this tag will be restricted to Halloween and Full Moons. And because it's restricted to Halloween and Full Moons, get creative! The tonal restrictions we normally ask our Workshoppers to observe with TF2 items don't really apply to a holiday where wizards and bomb books regularly attack from glowing skull islands, so if there's anything crazy you've been itching to make, now's the time.

Lastly, don't forget to use the in-game tool, because we don't care how scary your items are, if they're not Gold Star certified, they're the wrong kind of scary—like the difference between being scared by a Wolfman and being scared by a Wolfman getting hit by a car while jaywalking across the street to scare you.

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added a new tag "Halloween 2013" to the Steam Workshop publish UI
• Fixed the Flex target preview in the Steam Workshop item import tool
• Fixed The Professor's Pineapple not drawing correctly for players in DirectX8
• Updated the teamplay_round_win event to fill out the winreason and flagcaplimit fields
  
  Notes missed from Monday's update:
• Updated Sentry Busters in Mann vs. Machine mode to damage teammates when they explode
• Switched Windows clients to use SDL 2.0 for controller support which enables hot-plugging controllers and configuring them through Steam Big Picture settings

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a noclip exploit related to dueling and coaching
• Fixed clients not being able to run on WindowsXP
• Fixed The Filamental displaying the burning material in DirectX8
• Fixed an exploit that allowed Strange counters to be incremented negatively
• Fixed The Crusader's Crossbow healing teammates with The Equalizer or The Escape Plan deployed
• Fixed The Expert's Ordnance, The Hibernating Bear, and The Medieval Medic item sets not listing their associated hats
• Updated The Sticky Jumper to only allow 2 active stickybombs at a time
• Updated The Rump-o'-Lantern
  • Fixed stock Medic not being able to equip it
  • Fixed not using the correct materials when equipped by the Medic

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to initializing the input system for the Mac version

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a client crash related to completing Mann vs. Machine missions

Some of the Steam folks dropped by the TF offices this morning with some interesting news: They've just shipped a new feature they're calling Trade Offers. It's similar to regular trading, except you can propose which items will get traded. Whoever you're trading with can then choose to accept or decline your offer, or make a potentially interesting counter-offer.

The best part is, you don't even both have to be online at the same time now. You can make trades while you sleep! While you're having dinner! Even while you're going to the bathroom. All cards on the table here, pretty much the entire blog post up until this sentence was a preamble to us getting to tell you that you can trade TF items while going to the bathroom. Move over, reading a magazine! Take a hike, preparing dinner!

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Added the ability to double-click available items in the Chemistry Set UI to automatically fill in slots
• Fixed clients not always seeing a warning when using not-tradable items in Chemistry Sets
• Fixed not-tradable Strangifiers not applying the not-tradable status to the item they are used on
• Fixed taunt kills with the Gunslinger not counting towards "Taunt Kills" strange scores
• Fixed a bug where the Marked For Death icon would appear over the head of the local player
• Fixed seeing stretched polygons for some items in the HUD 3D Character

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed the Linux dedicated server failing to run on older Linux versions
• Fixed the HUD 3D Character causing other HUD items to sometimes disappear
• Fixed a client HUD crash when Spies disguise as a class that has a non-active weapon like the Chargin' Targe
• Fixed an outdated tip for the Quick-Fix
• Fixed a shadow bug for the Warrior's Spirit