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08-20-2010, 01:34 AM
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:

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 leaksOSX: Fix copy/paste resulting in extra random string data


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