Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

General
  • Fixed issues downloading and running games with localized content
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

Library
  • Added "Expand all" and "Collapse all" options to context menus for collections in the games list
  • Added a filter option to split family shared games in the game list into sections by owner
  • Fixed non-Steam game shortcut icons not displaying when set from an .exe file
  • Fixed status in playbar showing "downloading" while unpacking a preloaded game

General
  • Fixed several causes of steamwebhelper crashes
  • Fixed possible client crash when there are more pending gifts than installed games
  • Fixed an issue where the language drop down in the per-game settings page could be blank for uninstalled games
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

Library
  • Brought back Small Mode library view and updated to work with Steam Collections and the new Steam Library
  • Added a library setting to hide game icons in the Steam Library’s left column game list
  • Fixed download progress bar and status wrapping to a second line on game pages on smaller windows
  • Compressed game page links bar to one line on smaller Steam windows
  • Post-game summary, game review reminder and other dynamic content on game pages will now fill only one column on wider Steam windows
  • Fix playtime not updating in play bar on game exit
  • Fix incorrect number of achievements sometimes being displayed in achievements section
  • Fixed occasional crashes caused when uninstalling games
  • Fixed Steam client crash after exiting some AutoCloud-enabled games
  • Fixed a case where game icons would sometimes not properly be downloaded and used for the game's desktop shortcut when installing a game. For for previously installed games affected by the problem, validating game contents and recreating the shortcuts should fix the issue.

General
  • Installation support for STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Orderâ„¢
  • Fixed a cause of black library/store/friends windows in the client or overlay
  • Fixed intermittent client crash on startup
  • Fixed intermittent steamwebhelper crash
  • Fixed web based views in the client rendering with artifacts if you have the latest NVIDIA drivers and have turned on Global Image Sharpening

Windows
  • Removed auto-creation of Documents/Downloads directory.

Linux
  • Updated vaapi decoding to libva2 compatibility
  • Fixes to free disk space checks to address issues with some NFS mounts
  • Fixed Steam Input F12 binding
  • Fix "Help > System Information" not producing container runtime information in some cases

Remote Play
  • Fixed game audio being silent when reconnecting to a running game
  • Fixed rare crash when the stream stops

Steam Input
  • Fix issue where adding an action set would prevent creating an action set layer until selecting a new action set
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

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
Dota 2 - Valve
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.
Client Update - Valve
New Steam Library

Remote Play Together

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()
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

Windows
  • Fix bug affecting steam client service for users who opted into the Steam client beta, then opted back out again
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

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
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

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
Client Update - Valve
A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

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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