- Steam App
- Victoria 3 (529340)
- Event type
- patch note
- Published
- 20 January 2026 - 12:07:50 UTC
- Source
- steam_community_announcements
Happy New Year Victorians! Welcome to 2026! We have a hotfix fresh out of the developer forge today, featuring the contents of 1.12.3’s Opt in Beta and a variety of other fixes, improvements and other balance changes. Also, as we said in the last dev diary of 2025, we will have our first dev diary of 2026 at the end of this month, written by Martin - the subject will be revealed with the diary itself. This is our final planned hotfix for 1.12 as we shift over to future content, which we will share with you in Q1 of this year. Check out the full patchnotes below. Checksum is `8825`. As always, please report any bugs on our bug reporting forums! We have also updated the Known Issues post for 1.12 with any fixed issues! If you are on the 1.12.3 Opt in Beta and want to use this new hotfix, please remember to change your beta setting to 'none' in the Steam Beta section! The following changes ...