Source SDK Release Notes

SDK Launcher

The terminology for Engine Version has changed and now maps to the year of release rather than to particular products. Here are the options now present in the list of engine versions along with the games which utilize them:

• Source Engine 2006
  • Half-Life 2
  • Counter-Strike: Source
  • Half-Life 2: Deathmatch
  • Half-Life 2: Episode 1

• Source Engine 2007
  • Half-Life 2: Episode 1

• Source Engine 2009
  • Day of Defeat:Source
  • Portal
  • Team Fortress 2

SDK Tools

There are now tools supporting three versions of Source in the SDK distribution. If you are creating content for a game or total conversion based on [I]Source Engine 2007[/I] you may need to run some of the command-line tools now located at:

sourcesdk\bin\source2007\bin

The command-line tools needed for [I]Source Engine 2006[/I] and [I]Source Engine 2009[/I] are still located at:

sourcesdk\bin\ep1\bin

and

sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\bin

Known issues

• See Source SDK Known Issues for a list of existing issues with this release.

Previous releases

• See the Source SDK release notes archive for information on previous releases.