The Boston Major is just one month away. Congratulations to the eight teams that battled through the Qualifiers to earn their places alongside the direct invites. While the attending teams and players make their final adjustments and preparations before traveling to Boston, we'd like to turn briefly to the remaining events in this year's Dota 2 Major Championships schedule.

THE SPRING MAJOR AND THE INTERNATIONAL 2017
The Spring Major Main Event will take place April 20 - 23, 2017, preceded by Open Qualifiers on March 6 - 9, and Regional Qualifiers on March 10 - 13. Wrapping up the competitive season, The International 2017 Main Event will once again be held in the first half of August, with Open Qualifiers running June 22 - 25, and Regional Qualifiers following on June 26 - 29.

For the Spring Major Qualifiers, we will be breaking the Americas Qualifiers into two distinct regions—North America and South America—and similarly changing the Europe Qualifiers into separate Europe Qualifiers and CIS Qualifiers.

THE BOSTON MAJOR
Now that the field of competing teams for the Fall Major is complete, we look forward to welcoming the players and fans to Boston’s Wang Theatre. With an influx of up-and-coming rosters set to square off against the established teams in a single-elimination playoff bracket, all with their sights set on claiming the Eaglesong trophy, there's no telling how the action will unfold. Tune in for Group Stage play on December 3 - 4 followed by the Main Event on December 7 - 10 to find out.

Invited Teams:
Wings Gaming
Digital Chaos
Evil Geniuses
Newbee
EHOME
Execration
OG
MVP Phoenix

Qualified Teams:
Team NP
compLexity Gaming
LGD.Forever Young
iG Vitality
Ad Finem
Virtus.pro
Team Faceless
WarriorsGaming.Unity

Today's update includes the release of Fall 2016 Treasure II, available for Battle Pass owners to earn as Battle Level rewards or purchase in the Dota 2 store. Treasure II contains item sets for Lion, Silencer, Storm Spirit, Dark Seer, and Treant Protector, as well as escalating odds to unlock a Very Rare Spirit Breaker item set or Extremely Rare Juggernaut item set that includes a new critical attack animation for the whirling swordsman.

To help celebrate the fall season this year, we've also added a bonus Quest Path to the Fall 2016 Battle Pass. Complete the six hero-specific Quests on The Twin Forks to earn Battle Points and unlock a seventh Quest that will grant a Halloween-themed courier upon completion. The Twin Forks Quest Path is available until Monday, November 14, so make sure to complete the bonus Quests before then.

In other news, for those of you following EG's and Fnatic's paths to The Boston Major, True Sight: Episode 2 will be available on November 30.

Today's update includes the release of Fall 2016 Treasure II, available for Battle Pass owners to earn as Battle Level rewards or purchase in the Dota 2 store. Treasure II contains item sets for Lion, Silencer, Storm Spirit, Dark Seer, and Treant Protector, as well as escalating odds to unlock a Very Rare Spirit Breaker item set or Extremely Rare Juggernaut item set that includes a new critical attack animation for the whirling swordsman.

To help celebrate the fall season this year, we've also added a bonus Quest Path to the Fall 2016 Battle Pass. Complete the six hero-specific Quests on The Twin Forks to earn Battle Points and unlock a seventh Quest that will grant a Halloween-themed courier upon completion. The Twin Forks Quest Path is available until Monday, November 14, so make sure to complete the bonus Quests before then.

In other news, for those of you following EG's and Fnatic's paths to The Boston Major, True Sight: Episode 2 will be available on November 30.

- Added a dialog on startup to correct a common performance problem on Windows 10.

- Fixed a bug with Phantom Assassin's Manifold Paradox Coup de Grace effects during bot matches.
- Fixed the styling of the "Automatically choose cursor size" option.

- Fixed a bug with rewinding while spectating live games.

- Fixed Shadow Demon being able to Demonic Purge dead units.
- Fixed Undying being able to Soul Rip dead Tombstones.
- Added an option to hide the overhead status display.
- The overhead status display is now 10% smaller.
- Fixed a bug where the overhead status display overlapped the hp bar for spectators in some cases.
- Added an option to hide damage numbers.
- Incoming damage numbers are not shown in some cases to avoid giving away information, for example during Necrophos' Heartstopper Aura when Necrophos is not visible, and during Ion Shell when the shell source is not visible.
- Added a visually unique hp bar treatment for your hero.

- Added incoming and outgoing damage numbers for the local player.
- Added an overhead status indicator to hero health bars.
- Removed the HUD stun display.

6.88f:
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* Purifying Flames manacost increased from 50/60/70/80 to 80/85/90/95
* Torrent cooldown increased from 10 to 16/14/12/10
* Ghostship Rum damage reduction changed from 50% to 40/45/50%
* Shadow Poison manacost increased from 40 to 55
* Atrophy Aura attack damage reduction changed from 18/26/34/42% to 10/20/30/40%
* Morph Replicate cast time increased from 0.25 to 0.35
* Morphling base damage reduced by 4
* Drow Ranger strength gain reduced from 1.9 to 1.6
* Purification cast range reduced from 700 to 575
* Purification cast point reduced from 0.25 to 0.2
* Purification cooldown reduced from 10 to 9
* Repel duration rescaled from 4/6/8/10 to 5/6/7/8
* Repel cooldown reduced from 14 to 20/18/16/14
* Outworld Devourer base damage reduced by 6
* Starfall Scepter cooldown increased from 9 to 10
* Faceless Void base armor reduced by 1
* Stifling Dagger cast range reduced from 825/950/1075/1200 to 525/750/975/1200
* Spark Wraith no longer dispels (still slows)
* Arc Warden movement speed reduced by 10
* Healing Ward manacost increased from 120/125/130/135 to 140
* Smoke Screen slow reduced from 19/21/23/25% to 13/17/21/25%
* Track movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16/18/20%
* Nyx's Scepter Burrow cast time increased from 1 to 1.5
* Flamebreak knockback no longer interrupts channeling spells (behaves like blinding light)
* Flamebreak burn duration increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7 (total damage increased)
* Fixed Return working on Centaur Illusions

6.88f:
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* Purifying Flames manacost increased from 50/60/70/80 to 80/85/90/95
* Torrent cooldown increased from 10 to 16/14/12/10
* Ghostship Rum damage reduction changed from 50% to 40/45/50%
* Shadow Poison manacost increased from 40 to 55
* Atrophy Aura attack damage reduction changed from 18/26/34/42% to 10/20/30/40%
* Morph Replicate cast time increased from 0.25 to 0.35
* Morphling base damage reduced by 4
* Drow Ranger strength gain reduced from 1.9 to 1.6
* Purification cast range reduced from 700 to 575
* Purification cast point reduced from 0.25 to 0.2
* Purification cooldown reduced from 10 to 9
* Repel duration rescaled from 4/6/8/10 to 5/6/7/8
* Repel cooldown reduced from 14 to 20/18/16/14
* Outworld Devourer base damage reduced by 6
* Starfall Scepter cooldown increased from 9 to 10
* Faceless Void base armor reduced by 1
* Stifling Dagger cast range reduced from 825/950/1075/1200 to 525/750/975/1200
* Spark Wraith no longer dispels (still slows)
* Arc Warden movement speed reduced by 10
* Healing Ward manacost increased from 120/125/130/135 to 140
* Smoke Screen slow reduced from 19/21/23/25% to 13/17/21/25%
* Track movement speed bonus reduced from 20% to 16/18/20%
* Nyx's Scepter Burrow cast time increased from 1 to 1.5
* Flamebreak knockback no longer interrupts channeling spells (behaves like blinding light)
* Flamebreak burn duration increased from 3/4/5/6 to 4/5/6/7 (total damage increased)
* Fixed Return working on Centaur Illusions