Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Engine
- Fixed an exploit that allowed files to be uploaded to the server at arbitrary locations in the file system
- Fixed a server crash caused by a client packet claiming to be an HLTV client when HLTV is disabled on the server
- Fixed a server crash caused by spoofing a client disconnect message
- Fixed a server crash caused by sending malformed reliable subchannel data
Counter-Strike: Source- Novint Falcon support is now enabled by default
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed clients using reloadresponsesystems, sv_soundemitter_flush, sv_soundemitter_filecheck, sv_findsoundname, and sv_soundscape_printdebuginfo to lag/crash servers
- The -pidfile command line option now works for Windows dedicated servers
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed clients being able to trigger sv_soundscape_printdebuginfo on the server
Updates to the Episode 1 Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Episode 1 Source Engine
- Counter-Strike: Source, Half-Life 2: Episode 1, and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch customers running under Windows Vista can now take advantage of 5.1 and 7.1 speaker configurations
Updates to the Source Dedicated Server have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Dedicated Server
- Fixed crash caused by excessive rcon attempts sent with incorrect password set
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Fixed Half-Life 2: Deathmatch crowbar swing speed difference between Windows and Linux servers
- Fixed a potential hang bug in the server browser
- Fixed certain filenames not protected by sv_pure
- Fixed CSoundEnt spam on the server with high numbers of player slots on a server
- Fixed Half-Life 2: Deathmatch chat bug on Linux servers
- Minor optimization to the askconnect panel
- Fixed IP address column reporting IPs backwards
- Security fix for file transfers as reported by James Gray
- Fixed players able to make their name disappear in the scoreboard by setting it to "~~ ~" in the options panels
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Fixed custom level sound lists under sv_pure
- Fixed occasional scrunched-up columns in the serverbrowser
- Fixed various memory leaks
- Fixed a Half-Life 2: Deathmatch bug where a spectator could freeze a live player when mp_forcerespawn was 0
- Fixed master server queries being truncated if too many players with long names
- Fixed a Half-Life 2: Deathmatch bug where if you +used a weapon it would not respawn anymore
- Fixed a Counter-Strike: Source smoke grenade exploit
- Added a way for server plugins to ask players if they'd like to connect to a different server
- Made materials handle sv_pure correctly when they've included other materials
- Fixed Windows dedicated server bug slowing down Steam updates
- Fixed certain models showing up all white when sv_pure flushed them
- Made the server print a client's steam ID and show sv_pure warnings if sv_pure_kick_clients is 0
- Fixed a Linux-only crash when loading certain custom maps
- Fixed a bug preventing sv_pure CRCs from verifying correctly on certain custom maps
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Fixed a client crash
- Fixed sv_allow_wait_commands restricting the server using wait
- Fixed a crash in "soundlist" command
- Reallowed fps_max value of 0, which means unrestricted fps
- Fixed a crash playing back demo files recorded with the previously-released engine
- Client forwards server commands it doesn't understand back to the server
- sv_pure 1 now allows custom spray decals by default
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Pure Servers
- Servers can now force the client to match the server's files, by becoming a pure server. When a server enables sv_pure, clients who connect and play on the server cannot gain an advantage by modifying the game content. For more information about Pure Servers, click here.
Source Engine- In-game server browser only shows human players in the player counts column. Bots column now shows number of bots instead of a "some bots" or "no bots" icon
- Fixed servers with bots reporting incorrect number of bots when sv_master_legacy_mode is set to 0
- Fixed a server performance problem with queued packets
- Increased the maximum rate to 1 megabyte
- Added a findflags console command, which can list all cvars with a specified flag. For example: 'findflags server_can_execute' will find all console variables and commands marked with FCVAR_SERVER_CAN_EXECUTE
- Cheat protected many cvars and commands
- Removed cl_restrict_server_commands to prevent clients from being redirected
- Fixed user names reported as "unconnected" when greater than 32k players had connected to the server
- Fixed a client crash during authentication
- Fixed a crash when mashing the ~ key on disconnect
- Fixed a bug with sv_minrate and sv_maxrate not applying properly on the client
- Fixed the free roaming camera in SourceTV demos
- Fixed cl_language archiving itself and not updating correctly when the language changed
- Fixed a voice recording bug that could cause voice dropouts
- Fixed a rare crash when spectating in Counter-Strike: Source
We'd also like to thank Wim Barelds, TC from UKCS Mega Game Servers and Ray from Clan {US} East, for their time in reporting and testing this update.
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Fixed crash when running in Offline mode
Updates to the Source Multiplayer games have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Multiplayer
- Improved multiplayer voice communication, now using a much clearer codec
- First release of a completely reworked in game text chat to which now includes a chat history and a filter to only see important chat messages
- Fixed not being able to use sounds, decals or models if they were downloaded from the server
Updates to the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Engine
- Replaced cl_interp with cl_interp_ratio. Server can limit it with sv_client_min_interp_ratio and sv_client_max_interp_ratio
- Added sv_rcon_log to allow rcon logging to be disabled
- Cheat protected many more cvars
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Increased ES57, Compact 228 and Dual Elites damage by 25%
- Lowered allowed number of dropped weapons in a level to prevent gun spamming
- Updated foliage quality in cs_militia
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Fixed a crash which could occur if the dynamic weapon price list failed to download
Source Engine
- Added new cl_restrict_server_commands to prevent unwanted commands being run on game clients. The default value is 1, valid settings are:
- 0 = Don't restrict any server commands
- 1 = Restrict server commands in Valve multiplayer games
- 2 = Restrict server commands in all multiplayer games
- Decreased startup time in some cases by rate-limiting the packets sent to clients during logon
- Improved responsiveness when entering map areas with lots of entities by automatically compressing large packet updates
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Added Dynamic Weapon Pricing
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source Beta
- Fixed prices not reverting to default when switching a server from blackmarket to regular
- Fixed some blackmarket buy menu elements showing up when not playing on a blackmarket server
- Fixed buy preset buttons not working under black market
- Removed warning about changing mp_dynamicprice while game is running
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source Beta have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source Beta
- Added missing purchase screen art
- Fixed being unable to purchase smoke grenades
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine, along with some improvements to SourceTV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Added beta for Counter-Strike: Source Dynamic Weapon Pricing
Source Engine
- Exclude .lua files from being downloaded by clients
- Exclude the addons/, gamemods/ and lua/ from having files inside of them downloaded to clients (Garry's MOD support)
- Optimization for dedicated server and SourceTV relays
SourceTV
- Enabled tv_deltacache by default and made size adjustable
- Removed original game server IP address from spectator "status" command output
VGUI
- Correctly render underlined fonts
Updates to the Source Multiplayer Games have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Source Multiplayer Games
- Fixed console command exploit that could crash multiplayer servers
- Fixed crash with team swapping in Source Multiplayer Games
Updates to Counter-Strike: Source and the Source Engine, along with some improvements to SourceTV have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:
Counter-Strike: Source
- Added zoom/scope to first person view in SourceTV
- Fixed exploit to access full map overview while alive
- Fixed exploit to bypass mp_forcecamera 1 restrictions
Source Engine- Fixed clock synchronization while recording a demo
SourceTV- Added number of spectators and broadcast title in spectator GUI
- Added chat groups for SourceTV spectators
