Steam Updates Released

BY Andrew Miesner / April 20, 2009

Steam LogoSteam has recently released updates to Counter-Strike and Condition Zero. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The changes include:

Counter-Strike and Condition Zero

Prevent Russian Walking exploit

Server changes

Fixed players being kicked from servers with an INVALID_STEAM_TICKET rejection

Added a message to the server console to show when the server has reconnected to Steam

Made map name and other variables reported by the server stay more current

Fixed mp_timeleft not updating in server rules (or any unlogged cvar for that matter)

Show HLTV being connected in the player count for pings

Fixed HLTV staying in players list even after disconnect

Fixed server hang when a user connects with a specially crafted info string

Fixed occasional crash under Linux on startup for SMP machines (Linux)

Cleaned up hlds_run script (Linux)


There have also been reports of players crashing in game due to the update. Hopefully Valve will fix this soon.

 

Source: SteamPowered