See here:
{LINK REMOVED}http://www.pcgamesn.com/companyofheroes/company-heroes-2-free-both-proletariat-and-bourgeoisie-weekend

A big patch was released not long ago, you guys can read all about it here:

{LINK REMOVED}http://community.companyofheroes.com/forums/company-of-heroes-2-discussion/topics/CoH-2-Changelog?page=2#post-255210

I have no idea if and how this affects us.

[edit 13/06/2014]
The page with changelogs has moved to here:
{LINK REMOVED}http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/company-of-heroes-2-general-discussion/67-coh-2-changelog
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See topic.

Apparently, as soon as you have some Steam friends, you can just invite each other to games.

...lol