Overview
Per the official update page from the Counter-Strike 2 team, here are the latest updates. You can read their notes here. The biggest update is that you can now upgrade 5 of your Covert Quality (Red) skins to golds with this patch, which means the entire market has shifted in pricing (reds up, golds down).
GAMEPLAY
Adding Retakes as official game mode supporting Defusal Group Alpha and Defusal Group Delta maps on official matchmaking servers.
Fixed Molotov and Smoke interaction logic in cases when multiple smokes are active in the map.
Increased matchmaking party size for Retakes to allow 4 players in a party.
Fixed a case where players joining Retakes round during freeze time could spawn at a wrong spawn point.
Fixed bot manager logic to make room for players by first kicking dead bots and bots who are not controlled by a human.
MAPS
Updated Golden to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
Updated Palacio to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
Updated Rooftop to the latest version from Steam Community Workshop (Update Notes)
Inferno
Adjustments to top of Quad and under Balcony to improve visibility.
Various optimizations.
CONTRACTS
Extended functionality of the "Trade Up Contract" to allow exchanging 5 items of Covert quality as follows:
5 StatTrak™ Covert items can be exchanged for one StatTrak™ Knife from a collection of one of the items provided
5 regular Covert items can be exchanged for one regular Knife item or one regular Gloves item from a collection of one of the items provided
MISC
Performance optimizations when the game is in the main menu and item inspect UI
Fixed inventory item icons sometimes rendering in blurry state or not rendering
Fixed several server-only sound events to not start multiple times
Stability improvements
