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[Valve]

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

The update has been re-released on December 16th to hotfix a CPU usage problem with the Linux client.

General

• Fix URL bar displaying on HTTPS pages when ‘Display Steam URL’ setting is disabled. Steam URL bar will now respect the setting unless on a page with a security issue in which case it will always show to display the error.
  
• Fix steamwebhelper crash causes when requests are unexpectedly canceled.
  

Library

• Allow creating shelves for shared libraries.
  
• Disable screenshot slideshow in app hovers if Low Bandwidth or Low Performance mode is enabled.
  
• Fix some cases where mismatched header images were cached for some games.
  
• Fix duplicated game activity items from sometimes appearing.
  
• Allow Family Sharing of tools.
  
• Fix new categories created in small mode or Big Picture mode not being properly saved when switching to normal mode.
  
• Fix recently played but disallowed by Family View games not appearing in the Recent Games shelf (or the MRU jump list) when Family View is enabled at startup.
  
• Fix rendering of steam award images in news updates.
  

Remote Play Together

• Hosting on Windows and Linux automatically starts a Steam Voice chat with invited players when available. Invited Friends can optionally join and accept the voice chat in a single click.
  
• Players in the session are visible to all players for adjusting Steam Voice Chat mic volumes.
  
• All players’ status is now updated to show that they are playing the game together in the Friends List.
  
• Fixed host not being able to adjust the last player's input settings in some cases.
  
• More players fit in the vertical scrolling area.
  
• When a Remote Play Together session is already running, trying to invite a different friend to a different game allows the host to easily end the existing stream.
  
• Game volume and fullscreen/windowed preferences are remembered across sessions for the client.
  
• Family Sharing can now be used in conjunction with Remote Play Together.
  

Linux

• Update steam runtime and container runtime (0.20191119.3): improved graphics drivers diagnostics.
  
• Implement a workaround for filesystems with failing 32 bit statfs64 calls (free disk space checks).
  
• steam runtime 0.20191210.1: gnutls update to support Proton, further improvements to steam-runtime-system-info.
  

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