Halo Custom Edition V1.08 Update Released
Bungie has released a final update patch for the server crashing issues and buffer overrun attacks that has plagued earlier versions of the game.  In addition to correcting the security issues this patch also removes the requirement to have the Halo PC CDROM inserted into your machine in order to play.  The update is NOT backward compatible with other versions, meaning that the client and server MUST be running the same version in order to play.   You still are required to own a copy of the Halo PC game and have a valid Product key to play the game.  This patch will be made mandatory  as an auto-update sometime on Aug 8-2008.  You may down load the update from The file archive.  Also released is a Halo CE Dedicated server update for those people who have installed the server separately from the client. It is available here.