Valve has released a new Dota 2 update related to the winter season

Valve has shared word on its rather large update to Dota 2 that brings the Dota Plus winter season and resolves upwards of a dozen bugs.

This was made known on the Steam page of the official project.

The complete list of changes in the most recent Dota 2 update:

• The issue related to the lack of Quickcast for Observer and Sentry wards in the settings is fixed.

• Storm Surge wrong icon was used for Razor Voidstorm Asylum Arcana and the bug is fixed now.

• Shadow Fiend Presence of the Dark Lord effect didn’t lose some charges properly on death. This bug is fixed.

• Some light bugs on seasonal winter map has been solved.

• Loading spinners that are incorrectly rotating have been fixed.

• Describing Force Staff has errors, it ends on two periods and this is now corrected.

• Some of the images for the graffiti event have been placed incorrectly, and this is now rectified.

• Addressed various crashes on client and server evaluations.

• Some bugs where Watchers’ colors do not correlate with their respective teams in some situations has been resolved.

• Sai abilities are now added to Kez in Ability Draft. In the draft screen, Katana and Sai abilities will be shown in random order when composing the draft screen.

• Reward tokens with metaprogression attached to them are now viewable under Act Four “Fallen Crown” hero filter on the hero selection screen.

• The “Thorned Throne” loading screen is now functioning, that has not been the case in the past.

• Thorned Throne: The voice lines obtainable as rewards in levels 3, 5, and 7 respectively have now been made permanent.

• Thorned Throne: The visibility of the level 5 and above Reaper has been made more distinct.

• Thorned Throne: There are range constraints on the spirits no more, always a specific distance away from the player character.

• Thorned Throne: Corrected a bug in which the score sometimes failed to refresh.

• Thorned Throne: Fixed the display of the wrong text when the client was launched incorrectly using the wrong language.

• Thorned Throne: Fixed Rot’s Scepter causing some graphic elements to not be visible in the game.

• Thorned Throne: Solved the problems with Echo Slash and Swashbuckle not working on Linus properly.

In the beginning, the winter season was scheduled to be released earlier. It's just that dataminers found out that autumn season has already passed but they do not find winter season beginning which sounds troublesome for Dota Plus launch.