Steam News announces the release of a new automatic update for Team Fortress 2, Valve's multiplayer shooter. The update has a bunch of fixes and closes of a possible avenue for exploitation. The full patch notes follow.

Engine

• Added checks to prevent transferring .smx, .gcf, and .sys files between client/server
• Fixed upload/download exploits with spaces in the file extension or a path separator at the beginning of the requested file (as reported on the HLDS mailing lists)

Team Fortress 2

• Fixed custom particle systems inside maps causing particles to break in successive maps
• Fixed a rare vphysics crash
• Fixed background highlight for KOTH timers not being aligned properly in minmode
• Fixed the Heavy's fists being hidden while taunting
• Fixed cloaked Spies having the critboost effect on their weapon
• Fixed banned clients being able to spamming a server with the "joined" chat text
• Fixed seeing the wrong class counts if the game swapped teams while the class menu was open
• Fixed Spies being able to disguise while performing a taunt
• Fixed having to press the voice menu key twice if the menu timed out and closed itself last time it was open
• Fixed the "Confirm Delete" dialog in the Items menu not handling the key correctly
• Fixed dispenser not healing players at the correct rate if it's upgraded while the players are already touching the dispenser
• Fixed exec'ing the .cfg file for a class change before the player has actually changed class