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General

• Fixed library view failing to fully re-render when changing views for some users without GPU accelerated web views or on Windows 7
  
• Fixed Steam causing Windows 10 volume slider overlay and capturing media keys
  
• Fixed web rendering not pausing on Windows when Steam client is minimized or closed
  

Steam Library

• Hidden achievements will no longer be shown on an game's activity feed if you have not already unlocked that achievement
  
• Fixed dragging apps from the Library home page to the collections page
  
• Improved performance for games with a large number of screenshots saved
  
• Updated Post Game Summary to be dismissible
  
• Put black bars over spoiler-tagged images in the activity feed and community.
  

macOS:

• Fixed library intermittently not displaying due to Steam Helper crash
  
• Fixed Steam usage of Chromium Safe Storage key if present in the user keychain
  

Steam Input

• Fixed an issue when converting controller configurations to PS3 controllers from other controller types
  
• Fixed a bug that could cause some configurations with action set layers to appear blank.
  

SteamVR:

• Fixed chat window not displaying in Big Picture VR
  

Big Picture:

• Fixed chat window not displaying with some UI scaling settings
  

Matchmaking Update:
* Solo players or parties who queue for both Support and Hard Support will join the Fast Queue but not earn extra Fast Queue games.

New Steam Library

• We're pleased to announce that the New Steam Library is now available – all players can try out the new features.
  

Remote Play Together

• We’re also pleased to announce that the Remote Play Together Beta is now available!
  

General

• One-time reset of Steam Skin selection when receiving this update. This avoids un-updated skins causing failures when opening the new library.
  
• Updated embedded Chromium build in Steam to 77.0.3865.90
  
• Fixed find in page dialog on the store or community tabs displaying after navigating away from those tabs.
  
• Free to Play games will now remain in your Steam Library when uninstalled. You can remove these titles by right clicking on the game’s entry in your library.
  
• Fixed an occasional crash at launch when the user has a pending gift.
  
• Fixed Steam client potentially becoming unresponsive for several seconds after exiting a game or after uploading a screenshot.
  
• Reduced client hitching for users with large libraries when adding or removing games.
  

Remote Play

• Decreased stream latency and reduced frames dropped due to host CPU load
  
• Fixed launching VR games from the Steam Link
  
• Fixed rare Steam client crash when running the network test
  
• Added support for Wake on LAN over wireless connections with properly configured wireless adapters
  
• Remote Play Anywhere now runs over the Steam Datagram Relay network, which ensures that the best route over the Valve backbone is always used. Also, connections are rerouted dynamically to avoid maintenance disrupting the connection.
  
• Fixed steam client crash under certain combinations of remote play with non-Steam apps, or on the second launch of SteamVR.
  
• Fixed rare hang in the host Steam client when starting a session
  
• Fixed “Streaming Launch” dialog when streaming from another computer that you’re logged into.
  

Steam Input

• Reduced Steam Input’s overall CPU usage when active.
  
• Start showing the last edited configuration in the personal configuration section of the configuration browser.
  
• Improve automatic conversions when applying configurations to different controller types – Steam Controllers will get grip bindings based on the A/X buttons, and PS4 Controller trackpads will get bindings based on the option/share buttons.
  
• Add a Screenshot binding to the Switch Pro controller capture button in the default templates – when applying a configuration from another controller type this binding will also be automatically be added.
  
• Added support for Power-A Fusion Xbox/Playstation 4/Switch Pro fight pads.
  
• Fixed several bugs around action set layer switching
  

SteamVR:

• Added playtime tracking for SteamVR workshop items and for SteamVR itself.
  
• Titles that are hidden in the Steam Library will now be hidden in the recently played UI in SteamVR Home.
  
• Changed Desktop tab in SteamVR to prefer input from the physical mouse over virtual input from the laser mouse. To switch from the laser mouse to the physical mouse, move the physical mouse. To switch back to the laser mouse, click in the desktop tab.
  
• Deleting screenshots taken in VR now also deletes the stereo version from the local disk and the cloud. Note that cloud deletion only applies to screenshots uploaded in the future, not existing shared screenshots.
  

Linux:

• Help > System Information now runs several tests to check for common problems with your Steam Runtime environment. Make sure to include it in your bug reports!
  
• Steam Linux Runtime updated (0.20190927.0):
  
  • Merged i386/ and amd64/ directories for better layout and space savings.
    
  • Disable obsolete SSLv3 in libcurl, fixing a libcurl problem on Arch
    
  • Disable LDAP in libcurl
    
  • Update SDL2
    
• Added support for enabling the Big Picture overlay when using controllers with the desktop client
  
• Fixed a problem where the screen could go to sleep while using a controller
  
• Fixed cases where the on-screen keyboard would steal focus
  
• Fix titles depending on SDL_image not working on distros that use SDL2 2.0.10
  
• Fix GPU crashes and overlay corruption with games that use Vulkan async compute, such as DOOM 2016.
  
• Fix mouse problems with in-game overlay
  

MacOS:

• Update app launch error dialog on MacOS 10.15 to show if error was due to the application being 32-bit only
  
• Games that no longer run on MacOS 10.15 Catalina will show an incompatibility warning.
  

Steamworks SDK

• Improved parsing of localized “steam_display” strings in SteamFriends()->GetFriendRichPresence()
  

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Windows

• Fix bug affecting steam client service for users who opted into the Steam client beta, then opted back out again
  

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Steam Remote Play

• Fixed audio on the host being muted after a streaming session
  
• Fixed a rare Steam client crash while streaming
  

Windows

• Fix bug affecting steam client service on new Steam installations, affecting game installation
  

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General

• Fix Steam service vulnerability that allowed appending data to system-owned files
  
• Remove Steam service log message being written to Windows event log on service startup
  
• Enable search for localized game names in the Steam library
  
• The text entry area in the chat window now expands if you are typing long messages
  

Windows

• Fix privilege escalation vulnerability in Steam client service
  

Steam Input

• Fix Steam Controller trackpad rotation slider not saving out values properly
  

Big Picture

• Fix friend in-game notifications not obeying the user’s notification visibility settings
  

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General

• Fixes for local-privilege-escalation vulnerabilities
  
• Fixed underflow in calculation of size of available cloud save data
  

Steam Input

• Fixed an issue where action set switches generated from in-game bindings could be lost
  
• Fixed a bug where the Steam Input configurator could repeatedly save out configurations while a game is running.
  

Linux

• Fixed audio device related crash
  

Steam Video

• Fixed playback of Widevine-encrypted videos
  

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General

• Fixed library drop-down menu no longer displaying after changing the library filter
  

Steam Input

• Fixed Xbox controllers showing up twice on Mac OS X
  
• Removed guide button emulation using the back or start button, except when using Steam Remote Play. This feature was causing some issues with some fightsticks and retro controllers and will be re-enabled for locally connected controllers in the future.
  

Steam Windows Service

• Fixed privilege escalation exploit using symbolic links in Windows registry
  

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

General

• Fix details button in games grid view not working
  
• Fix Steam client drop down menus temporarily freezing client and showing at incorrect location when client is partially offscreen
  
• Fix a case where the saved client configuration could be overwritten if running Steam on multiple PCs at once
  
• Blacklist a problematic USB device that could cause Steam to hang
  

Steam Input

• Add support for the Victrix PS4 Pro Fight Stick
  
• Fix Steam Controllers sometimes turning off when reconnecting to a wireless dongle
  
• Fix an issue in games with multiple official controller configurations where controllers that did not have their own configuration would use the first listed configuration instead of the first compatible configuration
  

Steam Remote Play

• Fix several crashes
  
• Fix chord combinations for back / start / thumbstick clicks on MFi controllers
  

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General

• Improve client logic used to choose and connect to download servers, which should yield better download rates for clients with download servers close to them on the network
  
• Improve connection logic in friends list initialization
  
• Fix screenshots in SteamVR Home
  
• Fixed a bug where a P2P connection would not properly migrate to another relay, if the active relay went offline.
  
• Fixed certain web page elements continuing to render in the Steam client when it is minimized or closed to the system tray
  
• Improved reliability of registry saving on Linux and macOS
  
• Fix the SteamVR dashboard obscuring transition overlays when launching a game.
  

Steam Input

• Added mouse hover to action buttons in Configurator to display which physical buttons are related.
  
• Rework the setting for enabling the Big Picture Mode overlay when using a Steam Input enabled controller from the desktop client. This setting now defaults to off and can be overridden on a per-game basis.
  
• Improve handling of Switch Pro controllers when not universally opted into Steam Input - we will now toggle between DirectInput mode and the extended mode which includes gyro and rumble support depending on whether a game is using Steam Input
  
• Added the GetDeviceBindingRevision function, which allows developers of Steam Input API games to detect out of date user configurations. Configurations with out of date major revisions should be automatically updated by Steam to the latest official configuration, but configurations with out of date minor revisions will be left in-place.
  
• Added Change Player Slot binding to Steam Input. This allows a Steam Input binding to change the player’s x-input slot as seen by a game. This can be mapped to a chord for easy application across all games, and as with all bindings, be set to cycle through slots via an activator. Intended for fighting games and such where a larger set of controllers may need to be regularly and easily swapped across a limited number of player slots.
  
• Rework controller activity detection to require movement of joysticks/triggers instead of just deflection. Should fix wireless PS4/Switch controllers not turning off from inactivity when set down in a way that deflects the triggers or joysticks
  
• Fix an issue with Switch Pro controller joystick input sometimes pulling down when alt-tabbing
  
• Fix a rare crash when connecting a Switch Pro controller
  

Streaming / Steam Remote Play

• Fix a crash when streaming non-Steam game with touch controls enabled
  
• Fix some other rare crash cases
  
• Fixed a crash when streaming a non-Steam game to the Steam Link app
  

Big Picture

• Properly hide password entry text in the in-game on-screen keyboard
  
• Fix non-Steam Controllers receiving a Steam Controller configuration on the login screen
  
• Fix the “hide device” option in Controller Settings not being shown in some cases
  
• Fix the alignment of the Steam logo in several notifications
  

Mac

• Fix rare crash at exit
  
• Fix rare crash when a HID device fails to open when no other devices are open
  

Linux

• Plumb Steam Input’s action set change on cursor visibility feature. This allows for games that show a cursor in menus but not in game, ex: Dark Souls 3, to have separate controls in those contexts
  
• Use the host's zenity program when available for basic dialogs during startup
  
• Fix crash caused by audio cards with no active port set
  
• Improve detection of some linux versions at steam update time
  

Shader Pre-Caching

• More fixes to reduce the download size of Vulkan pipeline pre-caching data
  

SteamNetworkingSockets

• Fix bug that would sometimes cause the app to hang