New Steam Client

[Jan 18, 2010, 10:01 pm ET] - Post a Comment

Steam News announces the release of a new Steam client. Here's the change list.

Improved caching of images/icons fetched over HTTP and used inside client UI (avatars, achievement images, etc)
Windows 7 jump list improvements
Improved Steam Cloud transfer protocol performance/reliability when syncing large files
Consistency improvements for stats and achievements
Improved network communication work
Added password support to steam://connect command for connecting to game servers. The proper syntax is: steam://connect/[IP:Port]/[password]
Fix for the overlay sometimes not detecting input messages in games with different focus and active hwnds
Optimized the stats and achievements system's disk usage
Fixed cloud games attempting to sync when the client is in offline mode