I've also been patiently waiting for the fabled Toolchain Update (SDK2013 Edition) for a fair while. I believe it was back in February 2017 that the initial announcement email was sent out, which promised that TF2 would get the Toolchain Update first (it did), and that SDK2013 would subsequently be updated in the same manner "in the near future". Alas, it's been almost a year now, and the SDK2013 part of the Toolchain Update seems to have been lost in Valve Time.
I strongly echo the sentiment from the OP regarding security fixes. But it would also just be super nice to have SDK source code and binaries that are just generally synced up with the TF2 branch, rather than >2 years out of date. Plus, the more time that passes, the more the old build tool versions get annoying: for example, nowadays, VS2017 provides an easy installer option to add the v140 toolset (VS2015 build tools), and installing it takes up minimal disk space; but keeping around the v120 toolset (VS2013 build tools), which is still necessary for SDK2013, means keeping VS2013 fully installed forever, even if you use VS2017 as your frontend and never use any of VS2013's old IDE crap, because there's no way to do a standalone installation of the v120 toolset. Regarding the update to the SDK2013 binaries that was pushed out back in June 2017: it had some small feature changes (Steam Voice etc) and security fixes, but from what I can tell it wasn't anything remotely resembling a full sync-up with the TF2 branch. And it definitely wasn't anything like "the binary half of the Toolchain Update": both before and after that patch, the SDK2013 binaries indicate having been compiled with VS2013 / GCC 4.6.1 (not VS2015 / GCC 4.8.1, as is the case with TF2 since its Toolchain Update). So, in summary... we're still waiting on this. Both a source code update on the GitHub repo and a binary push via the Steam depots. I'm CC'ing Jill from Valve on this email; I know you're undoubtably busy with other things, but we'd really appreciate a status update, if you could give us one. Justin (sigsegv) On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:17 PM, Bubka3 <em...@bubka3.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I remember reading last year that the build toolchain for sdk 2013 would > be updated. It looks like the sdk binaries where updated around July 2017 > but the github repo hasn't seen any commits since 2015. > > The patch notes also include a couple of security fixes and it appears > that some changes are required in the modification's binaries as well if > you wanted to update. > > Can we expect to see updates to that repo anytime soon? > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >
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