[-]July 15, 2009 - Counter-Strike 1.6 Update Released

Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life Engine


Added -sys_ticrate command line option to allowed forced override of ticrate

Prevent more cases of server redirection


Counter-Strike/Condition Zero

Added -nobots option to allow forced override of bots on servers




[-]May 19, 2009 - Counter-Strike 1.6 Update Released

Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike 1.6


Rolled back recent silent walking exploit fixes as we investigate less impactful ways of preventing the bug

Adjusted bomb bounding box to prevent silent plant exploit

Fix to eliminate or significantly reduce "flashbugs"

Fixed status icons (buy zone, bomb zone, etc) disappearing when starting a recording, or issuing a fullupdate

Prevent creating aliases using the same name as existing cvars

Rate limit fullupdate and some other commands to prevent spamming

Fixed an issue with grenades where they could go into an area and bounce infinitely, causing the server to choke and or crash




[-]April 22, 2009 - Counter-Strike 1.6 Update Released

Updates to Counter-Strike 1.6 have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Counter-Strike 1.6




Fix the wrong sounds being played on jump when moving to different surfaces

Fixed crash in the spectator UI when hitting tab




[-]April 20, 2009 - Counter-Strike and Condition Zero Update Released

Updates to Counter-Strike and Condition Zero have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific 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)




[-]November 14, 2008 - Half-Life 1 Engine Update Released

Updates to the Half-Life 1 Engine have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Half-Life 1 Engine


Fixed crash caused by specially crafted connect string