# Portal 2 changelog > The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends! - Vendor: Valve - Category: Games - Official site: http://www.thinkwithportals.com/ - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2) - Harvested from: Steam (app 620) - Entries below: 25 of 27 (newest first; the rest are on https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2026-06-29 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/672872850646894416 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-672872850646894416 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed failing to launch on Linux. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2026-06-26 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/672872850646893718 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-672872850646893718 - **fixed** — Subtitles not playing during end credits - **fixed** — Not returning to the main menu when credits finish - **security** — Security and exploit fixes reported via HackerOne An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed subtitles not playing during end credits. - Fixed not returning to the main menu when credits finish. - Security and exploit fixes reported via HackerOne. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2025-02-05 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/539971003577532592 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-539971003577532592 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed a compatibility issue that was causing a crash on Linux clients. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2025-01-20 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/782037858417377987 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-782037858417377987 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed exploits used to crash remote players. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-06-24 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4177732670884265594 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4177732670884265594 An update has been released for Portal 2: - Fixed a remote code execution exploit and out-of-memory exploit in cooperative mode. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-06-03 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4179982568655127562 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4179982568655127562 An update has been released for Portal 2: - Fixed some exploits that could lead to crashes or remote code execution against a co-op partner. Reported via HackerOne. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-02-05 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4044863966193655321 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4044863966193655321 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed the ping tool not working in co-op. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-02-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4044863966183062784 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4044863966183062784 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed not being able to play local splitscreen. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-02-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4044863966182681368 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4044863966182681368 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed several exploits that could crash a coop partner's game. All reported via HackerOne. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2024-01-05 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3878226811978319071 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3878226811978319071 - Fixed several remote code execution and crash exploits against co-op partners. All reported via HackerOne. - Fixed a regression in targeting some entities with the ping tool. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2023-04-26 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3723956959281226799 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3723956959281226799 An update has been released for Portal 2 and Portal 2 Authoring Tools. - Fixed several crash and remote code execution exploits, reported via HackerOne. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2023-03-25 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3717198571770425070 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3717198571770425070 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed two remote player crash exploits. - Fixed a crash on launch that some uses were experiencing. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2023-03-14 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3657524427227300126 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3657524427227300126 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed several remote code execution and crash exploits against co-op partners. All reported via HackerOne. ### Portal 2 Update - Date: 2023-01-17 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/6761625488931174615 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-6761625488931174615 An update has been released for Portal 2 - Minor code maintenance, no customer-facing changes. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-12-15 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/6391201883515272921 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-6391201883515272921 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed LED color on supported controllers sometimes not being set correctly. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-11-19 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3488629295080243621 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3488629295080243621 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Updated to DXVK version 2.0 - Fixed some controller input bugs ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-07-21 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3385035722290172481 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3385035722290172481 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed a visual bug in menus when playing with an external controller. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-04-29 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3187995626334311687 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3187995626334311687 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed the default input configuration for the Steam Deck. - Updated localization. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-02-24 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3103547427075471515 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3103547427075471515 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Updated controller support - Fixed a crash in controller vibration - Fixed a crash in a sound mixer - Fixed a stale material pointer crash ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-02-01 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4513171669141234039 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4513171669141234039 An update has been released for Portal 2. - Fixed a scaling issue with some UI elements ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2022-01-31 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/4513171669137090238 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-4513171669137090238 An update has been released for Portal 2 game and Authoring Tools. - UI improvements for Steam Deck support - Improved performance of controller polling - Other general in-game performance improvements - Fixed a misaligned stack pointer crash in Miles audio - Fixed input action set selection when switching between game and Puzzle Maker - Fixed some Squirrel engine exploits, reported via HackerOne - Guard against maps with corrupt mark surfaces, caused by some external tools - Update Steam SDK - Updated to DXVK Native 1.9.2a ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2021-06-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3031465734888617284 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3031465734888617284 An update has been released for Portal 2 - Fixed the game failing to launch on OSX. - Fixed some controller glyphs ### Portal 2 Update - Date: 2021-05-19 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3030338567428027865 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3030338567428027865 An update has been released for Portal 2 - Fixed a recent physics bug that caused some turrets to fall over on map start. ### Portal 2 Update - Date: 2021-05-17 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/5208954353363013196 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-5208954353363013196 An update has been released for Portal 2 game and Authoring Tools - Fixed custom maps with no lights disabling lighting for the rest of the play session - Fixed Model Viewer and Face Poser not opening - Fixed demo playback for workshop maps - Fixed some text corruption related to UTF-8 conversion in some instances on Linux - Moved the 32-bit Linux binaries into linux32 - Misc. rendering and other optimizations - Removed the 100MB workshop level file size limit - Added a +bench_demo command line parameter which will run a demo, and quit after it is finished. - Added a -bench_settings command line parameter to load a cfg/video_bench_{name}.txt file containing settings to load. There are a set of defaults provided, very_high_4k, very_high, high, medium and low. ### Portal 2 - Update - Date: 2021-03-02 - Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/620/view/3030330956962137597 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/portal-2/releases/steam-3030330956962137597 An update has been released for Portal 2 game and authoring tools: Bug Fixes: - Fixed a bug with broken voice overs in languages that have voice localizations (Russian, French, Spanish and German) - Fixed the audio settings being unusable in languages other than English - Compiled cubemaps on a3_crazy_box - Fixed a bug with broken text on the PeTI map selection - Potentially fixed motion pack DLC failing to launch