Steam Client Beta Available

[jason]

UPDATE: This beta has been released. For information on the latest Steam Betas, visit the Steam Client Beta group.



There's a new Steam Beta client available. To access the Beta, go to File -> Settings. On the Account tab press the Change... button to open the Beta Participation dialog. Then Select "Steam Beta Update", and allow Steam to restart itself. Here are the specific changes:

- Fixed layout of installation wizard when installing multiple apps.
- Fixed rare occurrence of prompting a user to accept the same Steam Subscriber Agreements multiple times.
- Big Picture: Added support for notifying the user when logging into an account that has already logged in on another machine
- Big Picture: Fixed bug where chat notifications might not be displayed when in game.
- Big Picture: Fixed possibly displaying multiple countdown timers in the store
- Big Picture: Fixed loading animations disappearing before loading was complete
- Big Picture: Fixed crash when entering Big Picture mode while in a voice chat
- Linux: add support for custom Steam library folders
- Linux: fix bug w/notifications stealing focus
- Linux: fix bug that caused text to be entered backwards in edit fields
- Linux: fix overlay crash w/Amnesia: The Dark Descent Demo
- Linux: fix overlay crash w/The Critter Chronicles
- Linux: fix "Retrieve A Lost Account" wizard causing steam to minimize
- Linux: fix Turkish characters showing up correctly in Steam updater window
- Linux: remove game icons when removing a game
- Linux: fix bug causing menus to close when a sub-menu closes
- Linux: fix bug with usernames ending with '.'
- Linux: fix bug w/Steam changing global mouse cursor theme


1/11/2013

- Fixed stopping game installation when pressing cancel button in installation wizard
- Fixed crashing when initiating a voice chat (present in previous beta)
- Disabled trade menu item in multi-user chats
- Big Picture: Fixed potentially losing input focus while searching the store
- Big Picture: Fixed size of main menu UI sometimes being incorrect when navigating backward in the store
- Big Picture: Added displaying a list of all DLC for an application in the store
- Big Picture: Fixed copied text range sometimes being incorrect if you selected the text to copy in a backwards direction via the mouse
- Linux: Fixed being unable to navigate to Community button in Big Picture menu with gamepad/kb arrow keys
- Linux: Improved perf during screen transitions in Big Picture (fewer OGL FBO object create/free operations)
- Linux: Fix steam starting again when exiting
- Linux: fix visible window re-positioning bug on Gnome desktop
- Linux: resize icons appropriately when adding icon to non-steam games
- Linux: fix case that allowed two radio buttons to be selected
- Big Picture: Added list of favorite and popular Guides to library and overlay


1/15/2013

- Fixed retail disc install error “missing app configuration”
- Big Picture: Support closing URL open dialog in friends chats with cancel hotkey/button
- Big Picture: Fix favorite counts not updating in all games view when you add/remove favorites prior to next restart
- Big Picture: Fix pending friend invites showing up as background of community rather than actual friends
- Big Picture: Improve perf loading community tab background/friends list
- Big Picture: Fix rendering issue with some panels with rounded corners and box shadows with –fulldesktopres command line param
- Big Picture: When in the main Steam view (not in-game overlay) support clicking notification toasts to activate
- Big Picture: Fix footer in main Steam window being disabled while a game is running even if you alt-tab back out to Steam
- Big Picture: Fixed missing string in delete local content confirmation for applications
- Big Picture: Fixed friend and group chats scrolling to bottom on new message even when you are actively trying to scroll the chat yourself
- Big Picture: Fixed mouse wheel scrolling of carousels sometimes getting stuck on leftmost panel
- Linux: Steam creates bad Desktop file on systems with localized Desktop directory
- Linux: Big Picture: Fix a bug in with text wrapping when it shouldn’t on Linux

[Hardkorny]

Please fix this GUI Display Bug.

http://img.i7m.de/show/16p3k.png

Only available in the German Standard or Compact Mode.

[[Tones3d]]

neat

[Non-Chill Filtered]

the auto updater thing changelog says the update is from 12/19

[mruuh]

I still have the reverse arrow cursor on top of Steam window. What gives?

[Stevo]

Nice work :D

[Road to Silver 1]

Is there a plan to port CS:GO to linux?

[liffy 💜]

Glad to see that global mouse cursor theme bug on the list, that was driving me nuts!

[devnull]

Yay! You guys fixed the cursor! Thanks!

[d10sfan]

Still having the problem with critter chronicles & the base game crashing with overlay on

[Felix]

slackware64 nosound lähetti viestin:

the auto updater thing changelog says the update is from 12/19

Change logs do not show the Beta updates. That's what these threads are for.

That update dated 19th December was a stable client release.

[SuburbanMe]

Thanks for the update.

I imagine this has already been considered, but would it be possible to at least have an option to use the native Ubuntu notifications rather than the proprietary Steam ones?

[*katana]

Bug with tray icon in KDE x86_64 been fixed yet?

[Shaun]

HardKorn lähetti viestin:

Please fix this GUI Display Bug.

http://img.i7m.de/show/16p3k.png

Only available in the German Standard or Compact Mode.

Report it on the steam github if it isn't already done so. Posting it here is pointless.

That said, glad to see a fast and plentiful update for the steam beta.

[xplt]

HardKorn lähetti viestin:

Please fix this GUI Display Bug.

http://img.i7m.de/show/16p3k.png

Only available in the German Standard or Compact Mode.

If it's not yet, you should report about it here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues

[xplt]

Predator105 lähetti viestin:

Report it on the steam github if it isn't already done so. Posting it here is pointless.

That said, glad to see a fast and plentiful update for the steam beta.

Wow, that's the speed, ha-ha! :D