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Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve
Jul 21, 2015
An update has been released for the Steam Client and will be automatically downloaded.

Big Picture
  • - Enabled new community and profile features. Market, game hubs, workshop, and inventory are now available natively in Big Picture mode
  • - Made holding down the Guide button on a game controller for more than a second jump you right to the Exit menu
  • - Updated the Friends interface to make more options natively available
  • - Updated the System Menu (accessed by the Guide button on a game controller) to let you more easily navigate within Big Picture
  • - Added support for German, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Ukrainian keyboard layouts in the on screen keyboard
  • - When holding either trigger keys with the on screen keyboard the shifted mode now stays set

General
  • - Updated the web component to CEF version 43.0.2357.81
  • - Updated the downloads page to show disk usage as MB/sec
  • - Fixed the friends menu items in the right click system menu not setting state correctly when selected
  • - Fixed some cases where audio in other applications would get muted by Windows when using games with Steam Voice
  • - Fixed showing launch option for additional DLC before content finished installing

Steam Video
  • - Added a custom video player for watching streaming videos
  • - Enabled playback in Big Picture including controller support

In-Home Streaming and Broadcasting
  • - Fixed crash when video recording starts in some D3D11 games
  • - Fixed minimizing game window when live broadcast starts

Overlay
  • - Improved the friends UI performance with very large friends lists

Windows
  • - Fixed bugs when maximizing windows on a secondary monitor which is larger than the primary monitor

SteamOS, Linux and Mac OS X
  • - Fixed having to unlock the web player when watching broadcasts each time Steam is launched

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