Steam Client Update Released

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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 sessionsReduced 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 librariesUpdated '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 priorityUpdated 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 selfFix 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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