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

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 caused by using custom HUD files

Hey, everybody! We wrote a comic! It’s full-sized, it stars the whole cast of the TF2niverse, and at least one person dies in it! It’s the first issue of an ongoing six-part series, set to come out bi-monthly, and you can read it here.

This is the first time we’re releasing a comic that isn’t tied to an impending update. Why are we doing this? Because sometimes reading is its own reward. Not most of the time, obviously. But we think you’ll agree this comic series deserves to join the menu at the Olive Garden, Fitzscott Gerald’s The Great Greatsby, and the beginning part of a jet-ski manual that tells you how to start the jet-ski as one of the three or four things humanity has produced that’s actually worth reading.

You are about to embark a word-packed adventure. And what better way to send you off than with this famous quote about the joys and perils of reading?

It's a special day today, folks—and that's because just four thousand minutes ago on this day, Team Fortress turned 17 years old! (We were going to give you a list of other things that turned 17 this year, but it turns out when you google "17 year old celebrities" at work, someone from HR comes by and tells you the police want to talk to you.)

Anyway, to celebrate our right-on-time, certainly-wasn't-on-August-24th birthday, we're pushing out an update! Just like last year, we're handing out Birthday Party Hats, which you can equip all year round, and Birthday Noise Makers, which can only be used over the next couple of days.

In non-birthday-related update news, we've also added something mysterious called Chemistry Sets for you curious chemists out there, and Romevision sharing, so anybody playing Mann vs. Machine on the same server with an owner of the Hardy Laurel can opt in. All that plus the usual bug fixes and map updates.

All we ask in return is that we all pretend it's August 24th. Because that definitely is the date that today is.