The New Bloom Festival is almost here, and with it the dreaded Year Beast. But there's so much more in store. In case you missed the teaser when it aired before the Dota 2 Asia Championship Grand Finals, head to the update page to check it out, and then make ready for the battles to come.Speaking of DAC, if you missed even a minute of the tournament, be sure to go back and watch all the games on Dota TV. There were really some terrific matches played, featuring plenty of stunning upsets and nail-biting comebacks. Congrats to everyone who played!

- Added a caching layer in front of the Chinese replay servers to provide a better replay downloading experience to players outside of China.
- Fixed a rare bug that could cause Reaper's Scythe to not credit Necrolyte for the kill

- Updated -enable_addons to include sound scripts, music scripts, and Flash videos
- Added a new option to the Settings panel to reduce screen flashing. This option disables the flash on Thundergod's Wrath and lessens the flashing with Razor’s ability effects.
- Fixed multiple stacks of Linken's Sphere having different behaviors when two buffs are directly applied compared to one buff and one item
- Fixed Blinking while in the initial Tether pull causing the Tether range to be larger than intended
- Fixed Supernova's refresh functionality not interacting properly with charged cooldown abilities
- Fixed Geminate Attack being able to hit units that are very far from Weaver
- Riki's Permanent Invisibility fade time now shows on the ability cooldown
- Fixed Lycan shapeshifting while disconnected giving all creeps the move speed bonus
- Added a new convar to disable right clicks on minimamp (dota_minimap_disable_rightclick)

- Added a new launch option -enable_addons that lets you override a whitelist of files that we will be populating (currently supporting Minimap, HUD related elements, Icons and VO)

- The use of –override_vpk is no longer allowed in matchmaking games in order to prevent gaining a competitive advantage
- Fixed Berserker's Rage icon

* Added the Eternal Radiance Blades as a reward for DAC compendiums level 150 or higher
* Updated the store page for the DAC compendium: http://www.dota2.com/store/itemdetails/16209?r=cd

* Fixed Armlet draining more HP than intended
* Fixed Sprout knocking Roshan onto cliffs
* Fixed various minor bugs with different sources of regeneration adding up incorrectly

6.83b:
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* Respawn time rescaled from 4*Level to 5 + 3.8*Level (total is still 100 at level 25)
* Melee/Ranged Barracks team bounty from 125/75 to 175/100 gold
* Anchor Smash radius reduced from 400 to 375
* Brewmaster's Hurl Boulder damage reduced from 100 to 50 damage
* Pounce damage reduced from 55/110/165/220 to 50/100/150/200
* Juggernaut base armor reduced by 1
* Omnislash cast range reduced from 450 to 350
* Chronosphere manacost increased from 150/175/200 to 150/225/300
* Magic Missile cooldown rescaled from 10 to 13/12/11/10

- Initial preparation time in All Pick reduced from 30 to 15 seconds
- Randoming in All Pick now sets your remaining time to repick to 10 seconds (if you randomed while over 10 seconds remaining)

- For the following week, normal All Pick will use the same alternating picking style that is used in Ranked Matchmaking
- Custom icons for items and buffs are now shown only for the local user
- Reorganized the following items in Quick Buy: Power Treads, Arcane Boots, Butterfly and Mjollnir