Release Notes for 8/29/2018
2018.08.29 - 
[LONDON 2018]
– Added tournament items for the FACEIT 2018 London CS:GO Major Championship and the London 2018 Pick’Em Challenge.
– Later today, CS:GO will be freely available for offline play and GOTV viewing by installing „CS:GO – Free” from the Steam Store.
[PANORAMA]
– Added better support for Panorama UI on low-end machines.
– Added support for weapon stickers and character gloves on the character featured in the main menu.
– Fixed a case where weapon finishes appeared overly dark.
– Adjusted optimal movie resolution based on user’s CPU and GPU levels.
– Fixed extra bright flashlight on characters when loading non-HDR community maps.
[MP5-SD]
– Darkened exposed metal on ejection port and bolt.
– Added support for MP5-SD to workshop workbench.
[MAPS]
Mirage
– fixed texture blends in T-spawn area.
[ MISC ]
– CS:GO has bid farewell to the Scaleform UI. „-legacyscaleformui” is no longer supported.
– Updated the Settings menu to display the Steam Controller Configurator if a Steam Controller is detected.
– Added a new recommended Steam Controller config to better support the Buy menu and Team Select menu.
– Miscellaneous stability and security improvements.
Release Notes for 8/21/2018
2018.08.21 - 
[GAMEPLAY]
– Enabled MP5-SD in Wingman matches.
– Increased chicken festivity.
[WORKSHOP]
– Added MP5-SD tag for workshop submissions.
Release Notes for 8/16/2018
2018.08.16 -
[PANORAMA]
– Panorama UI is now enabled by default on all platforms.
– Users who experience technical issues running CS:GO Panorama UI are encouraged to email CSGOTeamFeedback [at] valvesoftware.com and include #PanoramaUI in the subject line.
– Legacy Scaleform UI can be used for a very limited time with „-legacyscaleformui” launch option.
[MP5-SD]
– Slight increase in maximum audible distance of primary fire sound.
– Chickens are no longer scared when players fire the MP5-SD.
[MISC]
– playgamesound command is now cheat protected.
Release Notes for 8/15/2018
2018.08.15 -
[GAMEPLAY]
– Added the all new MP5-SD, available for testing Offline and in Official Casual and Deathmatch servers. It can be equipped in your MP7 loadout slot.
[MATCHMAKING]
– Lobbies advertised to nearby players and Steam Groups members will now expire after 5 minutes of the lobby leader’s inactivity.
– Added a way to start advertising single-user lobbies to nearby players and Steam Groups members from the permissions dialog.
[NETWORKING]
– Fixed a bug causing some players, especially on DSL connections, to experience high packet loss due to packets being delivered out of order.
[PANORAMA]
– Enabled Panorama UI on Windows XP and Windows Vista game clients.
– Enabled lobby chat when accept match popup is active.
– Fixed various multi-line messages clipping last line of text.
– Fixed unresponsive keyboard after typing and pressing ‘send’ in the chat panel.
– Allow sending a Steam message to recent teammates using new Steam chat.
– Spectator HUD elements now respect the cl_drawhud setting.
– Fixed reconnect button when it appears over lobby chat.
– Fixed MP7 walk up animation.
– Game state integration includes a field „round_totaldmg” to track total damage the player dealt.
– Various scoreboard bug fixes for different game modes.
– Various stability improvements and fixes.
– Fixed mapoverview icon scaling
[HORIZON CASE]
– Added normal maps to Desert Eagle | Code Red and P90 | Traction
[PERFECT WORLD]
– Improved reliability of downloading Overwatch evidence in Perfect World CS:GO game client.
[MISC]
– This update includes a change to „csgo.exe” which, while signed with Valve digital certificate, may still trigger warnings in certain anti-virus packages and require users to manually change their AV software settings to update correctly.
Release Notes for 8/8/2018
2018.08.08 -
[GAME STATE INTEGRATION]
– Added support for bomb info in GSI which can be turned on with „bomb” „1” in the configuration file.
– Added support for observer free camera information when „player_position” „1” is enabled in the configuration file.
– Added support for match round outcomes which can be turned on with „map_round_wins” „1” in the configuration file.
[PERFECT WORLD]
– Fixed Chinese voice audio for several character factions not playing correctly in the Perfect World version of the game.
[AUDIO]
– Improved quality of voice chat in the lobby.
[PANORAMA]
– Added cl_drawhud_specvote setting to disable vote screens when observing.
– Fixed map names displaying incorrectly in the voting panel in Chinese.
– Adjusted spectator player panel position at different HUD scales to reduce overlap with the chat.
– Fixed hostage icons under the radar not showing up if you had cl_hud_bomb_under_radar set to 0.
– Chat and voice panel spacing has been updated slightly.
– Fixed the player name in the spectator panel overlapping with the item name in rare cases.
– cl_radar_icon_scale_min max value has been increased to 1.25
– Added a con command (spec_cameraman_set_xray) that will allow setting whether the hltv cameraman is controlling the state of the x-ray or not (1 = cameraman controlled, 0 = spectator controlled).
– Scoreboard:
— Fixed 20 players not fitting in the Casual scoreboard.
— Fixed incorrect scrolling for servers with a large number of players.
— Fixed a performance issue when maxrounds is greater than 30.
— Fixed a case where old End of Match skill group and data would get reused.
— cl_mute_enemy_team now displays on avatars.
