The Steam Music Player feature is now available for everyone, making it easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam. For more information, visit Steam News. For product support, visit Steam Support.



Added display of friends’ nicknames to notifications



Added support for Family View recovery email address in Big Picture mode



Added "I forgot my PIN" link to Family View unlock dialogs if a recovery email has been set



Simplified the user interface of the main window



Reduced energy usage when running in the background



Fixed installing games using “-applaunch” or “steam://install” commands



Fixed some cases where invalid URL strings would be parsed as URLs in chats



Fixed some issues with Unicode handling inside links in chat



Fixed regression that prevented public sharing of screenshots of non-Steam games



Fixed install from retail disk for games with more than 4 DVDs, to use the data from all disks



Fixed game banners not appearing in grid view while in offline mode



Fixed hang in grid view when hitting enter with no game selected



Fixed warning sound playing when unlocking Family View in desktop mode



Fixed permissions issue preventing developers from uploading Workshop items to an app using the ISteamUGC interface, if they only had an auto-grant license for the app



Improved AMD hardware encoding quality



Updated Streaming audio from Linux to use the default pulse audio sink if none is running at the time streaming starts



Fixed rare crash with windowed game capture



Fixed regression preventing Big Picture mode from responding after streaming a game



Fixed regression preventing streaming to NVIDIA Shield



Added support for additional caching of proxy auto-discovery results and better background detection of broken networks where auto-discovery fails and takes a long time to timeout



Fixed failing to draw Web views into games that run as the elevated user when Steam wasn't also elevated



Updated some common user interface elements for Retina displays



Fixed keyboard input for non-Latin languages in the Web view



Steam Client Update Released(UPDATE: This update was re-released on Sep 29 to fix a crash issue with AMD Athlon XP and similar CPUs that do not support SSE2.)An update has been released for the Steam Client and will be automatically downloaded.