Today Valve released a new client for their digital games platform Steam. The new version adds a tabbed interface for chatting and browsing as well as numerous bug fixes.
The full patch notes are below. To load the update, go to "File: Check for Steam Client Updates" in Steam.
New Features
- Updated friends chats to use new tabbed chat interface (see Friends tab in the Settings dialog to turn off opening in new tabs by default)
- Updated in-game overlay browser to use new tabbed browsing interface (Use Middle click on links to open-in-new-tab)
- Tabbed Browser/Chat HotKeys: Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab to switch tabs. Ctrl-W, Ctrl-F4 or Middle click to close tabs.
- Updated WebKit code for client/in-game browser (improved stability and performance on OSX, various browser fixes)
- Windows: 64 bit build of the in-game overlay (useable now with any 64bit non-Steam game you may add)
- Windows: 64 bit builds of Steamworks DLLs (for upcoming titles)
Fixes
- New non-blocking game uninstall dialog
- Improved client shutdown times
- Fix some cases of Steam becoming unresponsive for 5-10 seconds when new game updates are released
- Fixed unused game tags still showing up
- Reinstalling from a goldmaster triggers a content verification if the game is already installed
- Fixed sometimes needing to restart Steam after installing PhysX
- Changed overlay hot-key detection to not consider ctrl-shift-tab to be the same as shift-tab, thus allowing its use in tabbed chat/browsing in-game
- Fixed “hidden” achievements showing up in the game details page and overlay “so close…” ui
- Fixed a crash on shutdown
- Fixed an issue with input tab ordering in group chats
- Increased timeouts on Steam Cloud file uploads
- Fixed Rabobank payment page for iDEAL checkout not showing correctly in the Steam Client
- Fixed a bug parsing certain HTML tags inside News bodies
- Fixed top half of avatar images in chats not being right clickable for context menu
- Fixed a potential crash when failing to parse new stats/achievements data for a game
- Fixed bug/exploit with malformed www. URLs in chats
- Windows: Fixed the “alt” key sometimes sticking in the in-game overlay after an alt-tab event
- Windows: Improved overlay compatibility with some previously conflicting third party applications
- Windows: Fixes to progress bar on win7 task icon in handling paused downloads as well as finished downloads
- OSX: Fix several memory leaks
- OSX: Fix copy/paste resulting in extra random string data
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