Hello @Prime624, what's the date of the steam beta client you tested? This may have already been fixed in the 2017-11-22 steam beta client.
That update's changelog looks promising. It started happening about a month ago. I switched to the non-beta a few days ago, likely before the 11-22 update, and only just switched back to the beta today. If it doesn't happen again in the next week, then the update must have fixed it.
The 11/22 beta update appears to have fixed the issue.
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For about a month now, every time I open steam, around 10 or more games have updates in the downloads tab. However, most or all haven't recently been updated (according to the games' websites) and only a couple show as needing updates in the library tab. I am able to play the games with phantom updates without updating first, but the games with actual updates require me to update before playing. I launch Steam every few days, so having 10 updates every time doesn't make sense. The phantom updates are 0 kb in size. This issue originated on beta, but I disabled beta for a few launches/days and the problem persists. I have tried clearing the download cache, to no avail.
Many updates in downloads:
Only 3 updates shown in library:
Unsure if it's related, but I am also getting logged out every day or two. I have reported this in the appropriate thread.
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