As promised, the version 1.1.0.9 patches for Half-Life and version 1.0.0.4 patches for the retail edition of Counter-Strike are now available for download. This release offers the new Anti-Cheat protection, HLTV changes, integration of Steam technology, a bunch of bug fixes and other changes. You can use the SierraUp utility (from the "Configuration->Update" menu) that was distributed with previous releases, and participants in the public Steam beta test should be able to upgrade around this time as well. Half-Life 1109 Update:

Download v1.1.0.8 to v1.1.0.9 patch (11.7 MB) Mirrors

Download Full v1.1.0.9 patch (77.2 MB) Mirrors

Counter-Strike Retail Update:

Download v1.0.0.3 to v1.0.0.4 patch (35.1 MB) Mirrors

Download Full v1.0.0.4 patch (105.2 MB) Mirrors

The international patches (German, French, Italian, Spanish and Korean) should also be available via the auto-updater, while manual downloads are available at 3D Gamers / CSNation (if you can get through) lists mirrors for the Counter-Strike mod version 1.4 updates. Finally, Sierra has released the Half-Life: Initial Encounter version 5.1.5.9 patch for download from its FTP server.