Garry's Mod News

Hello everyone,

We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some extra fixes.

Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible.

[h2]Change list[/h2]

• Merged Episode 1, Episode 2 and Lost Coast mounting options into the Half-Life 2 mounting option
  
• Added sv_quota_stringcmd_kick convar - kicks players who exceed sv_quota_stringcmdspersecond
  
• Fixed crashes to do with entity render groups in Lua
  
• Fixed crashes with missing physics objects in bone followers and info_radial_link_controller
  
• Fixed crashes with particles getting insane particle count
  
• Fixed crashes to do with NPC:TaskFail & debug overlay
  
• Fixed crashes with CTriggerWind when loading a save
  
• Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed being called twice
  
• Fixed GM:PlayerAuthed always returning empty SteamID in singleplayer even when we have it available
  
• Fixed 2 exploits reported via HackerOne
  
• Fixed r_lightcache_zbuffercache 1 crashing the game if set after map load
  
• Fixed "material __error is missing" warning on map load
  
• Fixed .gma whitelist being different between game/gmad
  
• Fixed character blinking by making flex controller names case insensitive again
  
• Fixed degraded loading times for certain servers/addons due to spawnmenu changes from October 2024 update
  
• Fixed BRANCH being set to "prerelease" on NONE beta clients (dedicated servers will continue to report "prerelease" on NONE/"public" beta)
  
• Fixed Lua error with DTree node on rebuild when all its child nodes are deleted
  
• Fixed dying outside of the map displaying "Dropping weapon in solid" console messages - Player:StripWeapons still drops weapons before removing them, Player:KillSilent and other methods of dying no longer does
  
• Potential fix for family sharing owner SteamID being wrong in unknown cases
  
• Potential fix for server reconnect spam by malicious actors
  
• Removed a bunch of unused gamemenucommand commands - things like Half-Life 2's chapter selector, etc
  
• Removed __screenshot_internal - it was never used by the game, no reason to keep it
  
• Removed cl_soundfile - Unused, no reason to keep it, was trying to send itself to servers on join
  
• Removed unused systems - Source's bug reporter, benchmarking stuff, BonusMaps stuff, Mumble stuff
  
• Removed some debug related save/load related console commands
  
• Added some more known backdoor URL to HTTP blacklist
  
• Blocked "load" console command for Lua
  
• Disallowed players from using voice chat unless they are fully connected
  
• Do not set "commentary" to 0 on map start, since the console variable no longer exists
  
• Stop shipping Commentary Editor for -tools, since we removed the commentary system which was never used in the first place
  

The October 2024 Update is now live.



This update brings many animation fixes for the Half-LIfe 2 campaigns playable through Garry's Mod if you own the games on Steam.



There are also a few quality of life improvements - a search bar for addon presets and spawnicon editor menus, as well as a date of last visit for each server in the server browser.



For modders the new Particle Editor layout is now available, identical to how it works in newer Source Engine games. A whole bunch of new particle operators and initializers are included with the new layout a as well.



The update also includes a bunch of smaller fixes, optimizations, stability improvements and additions here and there, for modders and players alike.

This update requires servers to update before you can join them.

This means that for a certain period of time after the update releases you may be unable to join servers and get a message saying "The server is running an older version of the game" instead. You will have to wait for servers to update before you can join them again, as well as make sure your game is up to date.

You cannot downgrade to a previous version of the game. Please be patient and let server owners update their servers.

You can find the full change list for this update in our blog post:
https://gmod.facepunch.com/blog/october-2024-update

Hello everyone,

The next Garry's Mod update is coming soon.

The current plan is to release the next Garry's Mod update on 29th of October at 3PM GMT.

The update will be mandatory for all server owners, so write the date down, servers will need to be updated before they can be joined again.

You can preview the list of upcoming changes here:
https://wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Update_Preview_Changelog

(Please note this list is still work in progress and is subject to change.)


We kindly ask anyone, players, modders and server owners alike, willing to help us test this update before it releases, to minimize any potential problems with the update.

Just run your game or your (development/test) server on one of the beta versions briefly to see if any new issues crop up compared to the current version of the game.

The Pre-Release Steam beta branch for Garry's Mod has been updated and contains all the changes that will be included in the next update. The "dev" and "x86-64" betas also contain all the upcoming changes.

You can report any found issues preferably on our official bug tracking repository on GitHub: (be sure to search before posting)
https://github.com/Facepunch/garrysmod-issues

Or at the very least in the comments below, or on our official Discord server or:
https://discord.com/invite/gmod

If you wish to set up a dedicated server instance using any of the beta branches, please see this article: https://wiki.facepunch.com/gmod/Downloading_a_Dedicated_Server

How to switch game branches:

1. Exit the game
   
2. Right click on Garry's Mod in Steam and select Properties
   
3. Go to the Betas tab and select your desired branch

None - This is the normal version of the game
Pre-Release - This is the next update
Dev - This is a bleeding edge version of the game, expect it to contain more bugs than usual

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Hello everyone,

We are releasing a small patch today with some fixes for issues introduced in the previous update, as well as some bonus fixes.

Servers and clients are recommended to update as soon as possible.

The changelog is as follows:
* Fixed performance degradation with lots of static props
* Fixed crash with threaded addon file access
* Fixed changelevel crash to do with ragdolls
* Fixed crashes when trying to draw invalid sprite textures
* Fixed Lua errors when spawnlists contain invalid data
* Fixed spawning Sky editor not loading in Star Scale setting