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Steam Client, Source Engine and Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released
March 13, 2006, 3:34 pm · Alfred Reynolds
Updates to the Steam Client have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Steam Client

* You can now join the Friends Beta via the Friends button inside of Steam.
* The Steam hardware survey has been updated, with improved detection of graphics card hardware and sound card detection. Results are available here
* Added System information help menu option which shows the hardware information detected for the survey
* Fixed offline mode not working for users who account names that are all digits with leading zeros
* Fixed actively preloading games showing as paused in the mini-games list
* Fixed case where store page could become stuck displaying 'loading...' and never show a page

Source & Half-Life 1 Engine
o Enabled Friends beta
o Fixed several cases where the server browser would not correctly handle filtering of mods

Source Engine
o Improved filesystem throughput - this fixes a bunch of stutter reports in Half-Life 2

Counter-Strike
o Fixed menuselect 10 exploit allowing players to spawn into game in spectator mode