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Way back in the day, when we first shipped Team Fortress 2 as part of The Orange Box, we'd always planned on it being an ongoing project. But even we had no idea that, thirteen years later, we'd be over seven hundred updates strong, with a growing community of collaborators and no signs of stopping. Take a scroll down memory lane at the many tweaks, fixes and epic improvements that have made TF2 the world's #1 war-themed hat simulator.

— The TF2 Team

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Patches are updates to Team Fortress 2 that fix known bugs, glitches, or exploits within the game, and often add new features or balance changes to weapons, maps, or other game elements.

Major updates are patches that add new weapons, game modes, or maps. Previously, major updates had centered around one or two particular classes and included new content released predominantly for that class. More recent updates, however, have focused on a particular theme or holiday celebration such as Halloween.

Patches to the game are deployed to Windows, macOS, and Linux platforms via Steam, and must be downloaded and applied before the game can be launched. While all three of these platforms retain the same codebase and have updates released simultaneously, the version of the game on Xbox 360 platform was separate and did not receive frequent updates and as such is no longer supported by Valve, due to restrictions imposed on game developers to pay a fee of $40,000 by Microsoft during the Xbox 360's lifespan until 2013 (the console itself wasn't discontinued until 2016). To date, there have been only four patches to Team Fortress 2 on Xbox 360, compared to the 790 patches that have been released to Windows, macOS, and Linux since 2007.

Typically, each patch is accompanied with release notes detailing the changes introduced in the update; though some additions have often been left unnoted and some patches have been released without any notes entirely. However, through the use of diff tools and version control systems on local machines running the game, it is possible for the community to view all updated files and the changes made to them and thus provide notes on undocumented changes.

Currently, as of October 2019, no patches have been made to update the macOS version to 64-bit due to the implementation of the discontinued Carbon API used for 32-bit macOS applications, and Apple's deprecation of OpenGL for macOS.

Major updates

Major updates are promoted patches that feature new content and or game feature, frequently accompanied by published additions to character development or Storyline (Update pages, Movies, Comics, or Hidden pages), often announced over a period of several days.

Jungle Inferno Update October 20, 2017 Patch	Meet Your Match Update July 7, 2016 Patch	Invasion Community Update October 6, 2015 Patch
Gun Mettle Update July 2, 2015 Patch	End of the Line Update December 8, 2014 Patch	Love & War Update June 18, 2014 Patch
Two Cities Update November 21, 2013 Patch	Robotic Boogaloo May 17, 2013 Patch	Mann vs. Machine Update August 15, 2012 Patch
Pyromania Update June 27, 2012 Patch	Manniversary Update & Sale October 13, 2011 Patch	Über Update June 23, 2011 Patch
Replay Update May 5, 2011 Patch	Hatless Update April 14, 2011 Patch	Mann-Conomy Update September 30, 2010 Patch
Engineer Update July 8, 2010 Patch	Mac Update June 10, 2010 Patch	119th Update April 29, 2010 Patch
WAR! Update December 17, 2009 Patch	Classless Update August 13, 2009 Patch	Sniper vs. Spy Update May 21, 2009 Patch
Scout Update February 24, 2009 Patch	Heavy Update August 19, 2008 Patch	Pyro Update June 19, 2008 Patch
Gold Rush Update April 29, 2008 Patch

Content packs

Main articles: Bundles, Steam Workshop

Content packs are smaller updates that feature new content additions usually as promotional material for other games or events. Updates containing community-contributed items submitted via the former contribution page (now replaced by the Steam Workshop) have also been released as content packs.

Strongbox Pack February 7, 2014 Patch	Triad Pack August 2, 2012 Patch	Manno-Technology Bundle August 18, 2011 Patch
Dr. Grordbort's Victory Pack Update July 20, 2011 Patch	Third Community Contribution Update April 7, 2011 Patch	Japan Charity Bundle March 23, 2011 Patch
Shogun Pack March 10, 2011 Patch	Community Map Pack Update February 24, 2011 Patch	Second Community Contribution Update May 20, 2010 Patch
First Community Contribution Update March 18, 2010 Patch

Full list of Team Fortress 2 patches

Patches are listed (in reverse-chronological order) for the Windows and Mac OS X versions unless otherwise noted. Patches in bold-face indicate a major content update (see above).

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2007 Beta patches

Xbox 360 patches

PlayStation 3 patches

March 19, 2008

External links

History on the TF2 Official Website

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 '''Major updates''' are patches that add new weapons, [[List of game modes|game modes]], or maps. Previously, major updates had centered around one or two particular [[classes]] and included new content released predominantly for that class. More recent updates, however, have focused on a particular theme or holiday celebration such as [[Halloween]].
-Patches to the game are deployed to [[w:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[w:macOS|macOS]], and [[w:Linux|Linux]] platforms via [[Steam]], and must be downloaded and applied before the game can be launched. While all three of these platforms retain the same codebase and have updates released simultaneously, the version of the game on [[w:Xbox 360|Xbox 360]] platform was separate and did not receive frequent updates and as such is no longer supported by Valve, due to restrictions imposed on game developers to pay a fee of $40,000 by [[w:Microsoft|Microsoft]]{{citation_needed}} during the Xbox 360's lifespan until 2013 (the console itself wasn't discontinued until 2016). To date, there have been only four patches to ''Team Fortress 2'' on Xbox 360, compared to the {{Updates|type=patch-num}} patches that have been released to Windows, macOS, and Linux since 2007.
+Patches to the game are deployed to [[w:Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[w:macOS|macOS]], and [[w:Linux|Linux]] platforms via [[Steam]], and must be downloaded and applied before the game can be launched. While all three of these platforms retain the same codebase and have updates released simultaneously, the version of the game on [[w:Xbox 360|Xbox 360]] platform was separate and did not receive frequent updates and as such is no longer supported by Valve, due to restrictions imposed on game developers to pay a fee of $40,000 by [[w:Microsoft|Microsoft]] during the Xbox 360's lifespan until 2013 (the console itself wasn't discontinued until 2016). To date, there have been only four patches to ''Team Fortress 2'' on Xbox 360, compared to the {{Updates|type=patch-num}} patches that have been released to Windows, macOS, and Linux since 2007.
 Typically, each patch is accompanied with release notes detailing the changes introduced in the update; though some additions have often been left unnoted and some patches have been released without any notes entirely. However, through the use of diff tools and version control systems on local machines running the game, it is possible for the community to view all updated files and the changes made to them and thus provide notes on undocumented changes.