Steam Client Update Released

[Brick Tamland]

A new Steam client has been released and will be automatically downloaded.

Remote Play

• Added an option to share your IP address and attempt to establish a direct connection. The connection will still be relayed if NAT traversal fails or the relayed route is faster.
  
• Throttle downloads on the client while streaming, if that option is enabled in the Download settings
  
• Prevent downloads on the client while streaming, if "Allow downloads during gameplay" is not enabled in the Download settings
  
• Changing Remote Play settings on the client will affect any current streaming sessions
  
• Reduced the cursor scale when streaming to mobile devices
  

Windows

• Fix reading battery levels on laptops. Low battery level notifications and the battery level indicator in the overlay will now work again.
  

Linux

• Updated 'scout' steam runtime to 0.20200505.0
  
• Fixes bundled zenity binary
  
• Show progress bar while updating pinned libraries
  
• Updated 'heavy' steam runtime to 0.20200512.2 with upstream library updates
  

Linux Shader Pre-Caching

• Added support for merging NVIDIA per-thread cache files after processing new Vulkan pipelines and after a game exits
  
• Adjusted core count of background Vulkan pipeline processing to a quarter of logical cores by default
  
• Changed processing tasks to idle priority
  
• Updated Vulkan layer API version
  

SteamNetworkingSockets

• Improved routing for P2P connections
  
• Connections to the local user now go through internal loopback instead of being relayed over the Internet
  
• Fix crash bug when attempting P2P connection to self
  
• Fix bug causing excessive pings to be sent if connection starts timing out
  

Steam Input

• Fixed hang enumerating some rare USB devices on Windows
  

SteamVR

• Fixed hang on SteamVR startup on Windows 7
  

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