Valve has dropped its second (of presumably several more) Portal 2 game patches, fixing a bunch of stuff, and not adding any cake.

In perhaps more thrilling news, the company has also announced that the game’s first (of presumably several more) DLC add-ons will be totally free on all platforms, and will include “new test chambers for players, leaderboards, challenge mode for single and multiplayer modes, and more.” It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction.

In the meantime, though, here’s the list of changes in the latest update:

•    Fixed: Occasional crash after Alt-Tab/minimizing or running in a window on certain graphics hardware
•    Fixed: Crashes and/or graphical glitches after changing video settings without exiting game
•    Fixed: Player stuck at the beginning of Chapter 6
•    Fixed: Crash attempting to use other weapons (e.g. mods) with Portal 2
•    Fixed: Mouse cursor doesn’t highlight UI elements in game on Mac OSX
•    Fixed: Numerous localization bugs and improvements (also added Czech and Turkish localized text)
•    Fixed: Overflow bug in keyvalues
•    Fixed: Voice functionality regression (voice again enabled by default)
•    Fixed: Joystick now defaults to off in order to avoid issues with non-joystick hardware that registers itself as a joystick
•    Fixed: French sentences are not wrapping correctly in subtitles and commentary
•    Improved: Handling of Mac OSX crashes
•    Improved: Updates and bug fixes to Robot Enrichment
•    Improved: Reliability on unsupported Intel Mobile Series 4 Express chipsets
•    Removed: Unsupported console commands (“retry”, “switch_teams”) that caused problems if used