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Steam Client Update Released

Client Update - Valve

Jul 9, 2020

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

Note: This update has been re-released on July 31st

Reduced sensitivity of chat filtering in supported games

lowered CPU overhead of some Steam Input API call patterns. This works around a performance issue in Death Stranding

Note: This update has been re-released on July 28th to fix an issue with launching games.

Note: This update has been re-released on July 24th to fix an issue with chat in certain games.

Note: This update has been re-released on July 15th to fix an issue causing web views to crash and reload in certain conditions on 32-bit versions of Windows and new installs of Steam.

General

Fix Steam chat windows sometimes not showing when activated if the chat window was created during a full-screen game
Removed the "Music Details" menu option. Soundtrack content can still be accessed through the Library.
Fixed an issue with repeated "Friend is now playing" notifications when playing a game with a friend that is in Invisible mode or has their game library set to private.

Steam Input

Fix inverted Softpress activators firing when inputs are inactive.
Add visualization of Softpress activator values in the configurator when adjusting the threshold value
Improve the Mouse delta binding feature to allow for larger mouse deltas, this should allow for binding a controller action to a 180 degree turn first/third person camera games
Add a Soft Press activator that triggers on a threshold for an analog value, allowing for an arbitrary number of analog threshold bindings. This activator is available under the Soft Pull binding slot for triggers and the Outer Ring binding slot for joysticks or trackpads and overrides the normal threshold settings for those binding slots when bound
Added a relative mouse delta binding – this is useful for mouse/kb style games where you want to click on right click context menu option

Remote Play

Fixed invisible I-beam cursor on some computers
Added tooltips for the controller overlay buttons

Big Picture

Fixed broken localization token for uninstalled games
Fixed the overlay activating after taking a screenshot

Windows

Fixed an issue where if the Origin overlay and Steam overlay were both activated over a game at once the windows cursor could get stuck drawn over the top of a custom in-game cursor

macOS

Fix OS detection when running on macOS 11 beta. Steam will currently treat it as macOS 10.15.

Linux

Updated 'scout' steam runtime to 0.20200604.0
Improve security of the /tmp/dumps directory (used by the client to write crash reports - CVE-2020-13982)

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