- Fixed a problem with ranked matchmaking that was causing longer than normal wait times for some very high skill players.
- Increased the timeout for players connecting to a game - from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
- Fixed a bug which prevented Alt+clicking items on enemy couriers.
- Added tooltip text for Necrophos's Ghost Shroud effect.
- Fixed an audio volume issue with Sniper's Assassinate and Aghanim's Scepter.
- Fixed a display issue with in-world item tooltips.
- Fixed the position of the Dire Secret Shop on the minimap in the Learn Items tab.

Due to issues some contributors were experiencing with their submissions, we are now extending the deadline for “Lunar New Year 2017” to January 10th 2017.

If you are still experiencing any issues, please refer to our guidelines.

Due to issues some contributors were experiencing with their submissions, we are now extending the deadline for “Lunar New Year 2017” to January 10th 2017.

If you are still experiencing any issues, please refer to our guidelines.

- Fixed a bug which made it impossible to sell an abandoned teammate's items.
- Fixed a bug with broadcaster audio in DotaTV.
- Fixed Riki’s Tricks of the Trade missing the last attack.
- Fixed Rubick’s talents showing up incorrectly after stealing a spell.
- Fixed the talent names not appearing in ability draft
- Fixed an issue where network disconnection error messages would not be displayed in the dashboard correctly.
- Fixed an issue where the loading screen was dismissed too early when playing back a replay. Now it is shown until loading is finished and the versus screen is displayed.
- Fixed the sell item menu sometimes not accepting clicks.
- Improved some tooltips for buffs granted by items, buildings and neutrals.
- Fixed a bug with loaded control groups.
- Fixed a bug with adding and removing units from control groups via clicks on portraits.
- Fixed voice volume slider not working correctly.
- Improved audio dynamics on player and caster voice.
- Improved the bots' use of backpack slots.
- Fixed the workshop tool crashing when trying to upload bot scripts.

- Improved overall performance of the in-game user interface.
- Fixed a bug where Arc Warden's Tempest Double could give a Moonshard to the main Hero.
- Fixed a bug where a hero would sometimes try to purchase more items than was necessary when some items were locked.
- Fixed Necrophos' Death Pulse not removing its regen when the ability is no longer stolen by Rubick.
- Moved the "Miss" message to appear over the target of the attack, and added an "Evade" message that appears over the target of a missed attack.
- Fixed a bug where Helm of the Dominator's health buff was purgable.
- Fixed a bug where Storm Spirit's Remnants sometimes did not take the correct pose.
- Fix the interaction of Sniper's Assassinate and moving an Aghanim's scepter out of the backpack.
- Fix the interaction of Luna's Eclipse and moving an Aghanim's scepter out of the backpack.
- Fixed a bug where illusions of Tiny would always be carrying a tree.
- Fixed a bug where Sentry Wards sometimes used the default model.
- Fixed a bug where non-full bottles in the courier's backpack did not slow the courier.
- Fixed the interaction of auto-repeat right mouse and the minimap.
- Fixed the user interface incorrectly displaying talents for stolen abilities.
- Fixed hero images scaling incorrectly on hover in some aspect ratios.
- Fixed the hero grid so all heroes fit at different screen resolutions.
- Hero selection now allows typing the hero name immediately, without requiring a click.
- Made the in-game chat scroll buttons will scroll when held down.
- Fixed a bug with the emoticon picker.
- Fixed a bug which allowed coaches to all chat.
- Fixed a bug when adding sockets or adding or removing gems.
- Fixed an issue with the effects for Legion Commander's Press the Attack while wearing the Blades of Voth Domosh.
- The cheat dota_range_display now works in sv_cheats 1 games hosted locally.
- Fixed some styling issues with the hero grid not working properly in custom games with fewer than the full set of heroes.
- Fixed a number of ability tooltips.
- Fixed some interactions between the bots and wards.
- Fixed bots waiting for primary runes at 0:00.
- Updated bot item recipes for: Alchemist, Doom Bringer, Dragon Knight, Drow, Lion, Juggernaut, Kunkka, Lifestealer, Phantom Assassin, Razor, Skeleton King, Sniper, Spirit Breaker, Sven.
- Removed Roshan's hat.

SFM - Added skybox support.
SFM - Added a Add Wind Controls option to the SFM camera to allow users to animate wind speed/direction.

- Hero swapping is now possible during strategy time by right-clicking on player names at the top of the screen.
- Fixed items combining on the courier.
- Added a range display to many items which grant auras.
- Fixed a bug in captain's mode when a player did not pick a hero, which was causing no hero to be assigned to that player.
- Fixed a bug where post-game commend and report options would not appear in some cases.
- Fixed a visual bug with Underlord's Pit of Malice rendering after the spell had finished.
- Fixed a rendering bug where an incorrect 3D scene would sometimes appear in the user interface.

- Weaver's Swarm now provides vision of Monkey King while in a tree.
- Fixed control clicking on units to select all of a given type.
- Fixed a bug where hero portraits in chat were blocking clicks.
- Fixed a bug where some hero models in the versus screen sometimes failed to animate.
- Fixed a visual bug with Mjollnir's static charge effects.
- Fixed a bug where the default cosmetic items sometimes failed to apply to heroes.

* Reduced Scoreboard size when the item panel isn't selected
* Fixed a bug with Coaches allowing you to sometimes see the enemy team's selected heroes during the picking phase
* Fixed broken cosmetic meshes for Puck, Storm Spirit, Venomancer, Skywrath Mage and Warlock
* Added more Bot API functionality
* Fixed the top bar ultimate notification being incorrect after a hero swap
* Added a notification when Shrines are killed
* Fixed some tutorial bugs
* Fixed Chinese and Korean IME bugs
* Added Monkey King to the workshop
* Fixed some exploits used to spam in regional chat channels
* Fixed missing pause countdown timer sound
* Fixed shop search text not remaining when you close the shop and reopen it
* The items grid now opens automatically whenever the shop is showing if the grid was previously open

* Fixed the following panels not appearing: The Hall of Fame, Effigies and PA Arcana gravestones
* Fixed bugs with Coaching
* Added some new API calls for Bot Scripting
* Fixed guides you've published not appearing in your guides list
* The browse items tab now slides out as a modal panel instead of taking the place of the shop UI
* Restored Shop purchase hotkeys
* The pinned TP Scroll now shows a visual cooldown on it to indicate what the current TP cooldown is
* Fixed various crashes
* Minor 7.01 gameplay update

7.01
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* Added Necrophos to CM
* XP Requirement to go from level 6 to 12 increased by 140 (615/630/645/660/675/775 to 640/660/680/700/720/740)
* XP Requirement to go from level 12 to 20 increased by 140 (1175/1200/1225/1250/1275/1375/1400/1425 to 1200/1225/1250/1275/1300/1325/1400/1490)
* XP Requirement to go from level 24 to 25 reduced by 280 (same overall XP required to reach level 25)
* Fixed Jingu Mastery ignoring armor for its lifesteal calculation
* Jingu Mastery counter duration reduced from 15 to 10 seconds
* Boundless Strike critical strike rescaled from 200% to 140/160/180/200%
* Howl cooldown increased from 50/45/40/35 to 55/50/45/40
* Howl manacost increased from 15/20/25/30 to 30
* Lycan Level 10 Talent reduced from +20 Damage to +15 Damage
* Lycan agility gain reduced from 1.9 to 1.5
* Familiars HP reduced from 500/750/1000 to 300/500/700
* Visage base damage reduced by 3
* Windranger Level 15 Talent increased from +13 Intelligence to +16 Intelligence
* Windranger Level 15 Talent increased from +150 Health to +200 Health
* Windrun cooldown from 14 to 13
* Slark strength reduced from 21 + 1.8 to 20 + 1.6
* Purification manacost rescaled from 70/90/110/130 to 85/100/115/130
* Guardian Angel cooldown increased from 150 to 160
* Invoker Level 15 Talent increased from 20% XP to 25% XP
* Quas HP regen rescaled from 1.5/3/4.5/6/.. to 1/3/5/7/..
* Invoker strength gain increased from 1.7 to 1.9
* Centaur agility gain reduced from 2.0 to 1.6
* Pit of Malice interval increased from 3.5 to 3.6 seconds
* Pit of Malice cooldown increased from 30/26/22/18 to 32/28/24/20
* Nature's Guise bash rescaled from 1/1.4/1.8/2.2 to 0.7/1.2/1.7/2.2
* Treant Level 25 Talent changed from +20% 2s Bash to -50s Respawn Time
* Treant Protector movement speed reduced from 300 to 295
* Stifling Dagger base damage reduced from 70 to 65
* Luna base armor reduced by 1
* Reality Rift armor debuff rescaled from -3/4/5/6 to -1/3/5/7
* Fixed Chaos Strike lifesteal ignoring armor reductions
* Chaos Strike lifesteal increased from 50% to 65%
* Nature's Prophet Level 15 Talent increased from +10 Intelligence to +15
* Nature's Prophet Level 15 Talent increased from +15 Movement Speed to +20
* Nature's Prophet Level 25 Talent increased from -35s Respawn Time to -40
* Nature's Prophet Level 25 Talent changed from +6 Treants to 2x Treants HP/Damage
* Meepo Clones are now allowed to pickup runes
* Witch Doctor Level 25 Talent increased from +150 Death Ward Attack Range to +175
* Sven Level 15 Talent increased from +6 all stats to +8
* Sven Level 15 Talent increased from +15 MS to +20
* Incapacitating Bite slow increased from 10/20/30/40 to 14/24/34/44%
* Zeus Level 20 Talent increased from -35s Respawn Time to -40
* Zeus Level 20 Talent increased from +30 Movement Speed to +35
* Tusk turn rate improved from 0.5 to 0.7
* Enchantress base intelligence increased by 3
* Enchantress Level 10 Talent increased from +15 Movement Speed to +20
* Enchantress Level 20 Talent increased from -25s Respawn Time to -30s
* Geminate Attack cooldown from 6/5/4/3 to 7/6/5/3
* Dream Coil cooldown reduced from 75 to 70/65/60
* Lina Level 15 Talent increased from +100 Cast Range to +125
* Lina Level 15 Talent increased from -25s Respawn to -30s
* Lina Level 20 Talent increased from +5% Spell Amp to 6%
* Death Prophet level 10 Talent increased from +6 Strength to 7
* Doom Level 20 Talent increased from +50 Damage to +65
* Doom Level 20 Talent increased from +20 Health Regen to +25
* Smokescreen slow from 13/17/21/25% to 10/15/20/25%
* Ogre Magi movement speed reduced from 295 to 290

* Fixed a minimap input bug