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Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve

Dec 3, 2013

A new Steam Client update has been released and will be automatically downloaded. The specific changes are listed below.

General

Add ability to limit what time of day Steam is allowed to automatically update apps
Add option to let other games download while a game is running (this is a per-game setting)
Add download regions for Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Ottawa in Canada
Add 'Copy all text to clipboard' context menu option in the System Information dialog.
Update group announcement notifications to link directly to the announcement instead of the group overview page
Delay the download of Steam client updates until there are no games running
On game launch, if there is an update available but we haven't started downloading it yet, ask the user if they want to launch the existing bits or wait for the update.
Improved download rates for users with high throughput but high latency connections
Improved retry behavior when connecting to Steam servers
Improved download rates for internal app meta data
Improved in-game overlay compatibility for some DX10/11 games on Windows 8.1
Fixed the "Allow Steam Community in-game" checkbox getting incorrectly cleared
Fixed the "unread chat messages" action in the inbox opening chat windows with duplicate messages
Fixed hang on start-up if you had a problem connecting to the update server
Fixed cloud sync error when re-launching game right after game exited
Fixed base game being uninstalled in some cases if user hits 'Cancel' while installing additional DLC
Fixed Auto-Cloud for files larger than 100MB
Changed overlay xinput filtering to continue to filter for briefly on close so a button press that closes the overlay is not also seen by games

Big Picture

Added ability to opt into game betas and edit launch options
Added Inbox item under Linux if your machine requires a reboot due to OS level updates
Allow use of the up and down arrows on the Store description dialog
Fixed infinite loop of Cloud sync error dialogs on game launch
Fixed mouse cursor being visible during startup animation even if it hadn't moved
Fixed some rare cases where a panel would draw stale content after a styles transition completed
Fixed loop in the UI if you navigated from an IM to the web, hit the Steam button to go back and then hit Done in the footer
Fixed password cap locks label not hiding when there was input in the password box
Fixed check for updates button not hiding in the case you had an update ready to restart into
Enabled key repeat on game controller controller buttons
Fixed the "open link in new tab" menu popping into the web browser context menu
Have the web browser select all text when editing the url entry and place the caret at the end of the selection
Don't allow text selection on labels created by the dropdown control
Fixed All Games dropdown not showing custom categories correctly when selected
Fixed being able to restart Steam for an update before login

Linux

Fix paste pasting stale text.
Fix Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V in client-hosted web page text controls.
Fix incorrect foregrounding of a blank window in some -silent startup cases.
Fixed corrupt check box and radio button images on web pages
Fixed game controller hot-plugging not working
Fix runtime bootstrap rewriting so that if this process interrupted, steam is not left in an inconsistent non-startable state.
Fixed crash on linux if /proc/net/route isn't available
Fixed missing cursor in Akaneiro when using the overlay
Fixed Steam failing to re-launch on shutdown if some open sockets took too long to close
The overlay now saves and restores the games gamma settings when invoked
Fixed overlay not displaying in some runtime configurations

Mac OS X

Show the correct error if we're out of disk space during an update

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