Fixed some cases that may have been the cause of non-Steam game shortcuts disappearing



Change Steam to not require a restart when going from offline mode to online mode at login time



Fixed cases where the client could become stuck in Offline Mode



Fixed a bug that prevented login after encountering a network error



Library now always shows free games if you own any of its DLC



Fixed crash on startup if you ran two steam:// commands quickly



Fixed a potential crash shutting down Steam or halting content downloads



Improved Steam Client responsiveness when performing network uploads



Fixed a bug which caused Workshop and Steam Cloud file uploads to fail



Fixed a crash when downloading or updating games



Fixed a crash when quitting some multiplayer games



Changed Steamworks API calls to fail fatally if Steam.exe has crashed so that the game will fail in a user visible manner (vs some games appearing to run but failing to save progress to Steam Cloud and users later discovering all progress was lost)



Fixed loading sound caches for Zombie Panic Source Mod



Work around a regression caused by recent versions of GeForce Experience which prevented the guide button from working on X360 controllers



Fixed a bug where a X360 controller assigned a player index > 0 by XInput may not be used properly on Windows



Decreased texture memory usage and increased performance in some scenarios where parts of the UI are transformed offscreen



More aggressive caching of custom font data leading to improved rendering perf in some transitions in/out of text heavy UI on Windows



Added new multi-user login and create account UIs



Added shutdown UI



Added Go Offline / Go Online to the Quit UI



Added network connectivity error UI during login



Changed Web Browser behavior when using a keyboard/mouse to not allow over scroll and to behave more like a normal browser in terms of scrolling, gamepad behavior is unchanged



Fixed a Web Browser bug where links that open in a new tab/popup could initially load very slowly



Fixed a bug in the Web Browser where scrolling via any input method would cause the underlying browser implementation to believe the mouse cursor had centered on the screen and would then cause spurious hover/tooltip display in some pages



Fixed an issue that could cause overlay notification messages to stop appearing randomly after some period of gameplay time



Fixed styles regression with main menu buttons jumping to the right on transitions back from deeper UI



Fixed styles regressions transitioning in and out of “New for you” display



Fixed styles issue making prices get truncated in the store view at times when a featured game had a long title/description



Big Picture store can show Linux support icons



On OS X 10.9 point to the new Preference location for the Accessibility interface



Fixed particle system fuzziness in Big Picture on Linux and OSX to match Windows



Updated Steam Client to use the latest version of SDL2



Fixed a memory leak during voice communication on Linux



Fixed a crash in the Big Picture web browser on Linux



Improved Big Picture OpenGL rendering, added support for more complex gradient types, fixed inset shadow renderering and fixed jittering of some effects due to float to int rounding



Fixed overlay crash on non-Steam app shutdown on Linux



Fixed Steam crash on Linux systems with no USB support



Fixed Linux display of game shortcut names for games with non-ASCII letters in the name



Fixed some Big Picture crashes playing YouTube video on Linux



Improve Steam client support for XFS and large drives on Linux



Fixed web browsing while in offline mode to load the proper offline mode page



A new Steam Client update has been released and will be automatically downloaded. The specific changes are listed below.