A Steam client update is now available. To apply the update, click the File menu inside of Steam and then select "Check for Steam Client Updates...". The specific changes include:
Steam Client
Steam Client
- Fixed updating URL shell handler for steam://
- Fixed friends windows not fading in/out correctly in the in-game overlay
- Fixed layout of bottom launch region in in-game overlay sometimes breaking after using the invite to game dialog
- Fixed store pages not showing after exit for some game demos
- Fixed a dialog about Cloud sync failures for "Steam Client" popping up sometimes, with a "Play Game" button
- Added separator between userâs name and status in compact view for the friends dialog
- Fixed automatically closing the overlay when the invite to lobby dialog is closed
- Fixed some chat event text being underlined when the text wasn't clickable
- Improved multi-line text entry
- Improved updating Steam to retry more servers
- Fix friends list updating with pending Clan Invites reading the disk for friendpanel.layout every time
- Hint the OS to page out Steam memory more aggressively on every game launch
- Fixed "show online friends only" setting applying to "invites" section where everyone is offline
- Decreased frequency of some background update checks to decrease the frequency of clientregistry.blob access
- Made TCP the default for initial connection attempts to Friends/VAC for users on single core machines
- Several small perf optimizations to decrease CPU usage on low end machines
- Fixed some fallback logic to improve service when Steam content servers have trouble
- Fixed getting invalid error message when registering CD-KeysFixed Manual link in game details page to open in external browser (since itâs almost always a pdf)