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ABOUT Steam Client Beta

Steam Client Beta Group

Welcome to the Steam Client Beta group.

Opting in to the latest Steam Client Beta lets you see the latest features before they're released. You can find out how to opt in to a beta here:
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Betas

You can see the latest Client Beta updates on this group's announcement page. Join the group to get updates delivered to your Friend Activity feed.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements

Your testing and feedback is an enormous help! Please be sure to visit the discussions area and leave any feedback or bug reports you have:
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions

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RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

May 17th, 2013 - jmccaskey | 56 Comments

We have one last update for the week:

General:

Fixed a case where the toast from an incoming chat message would show an older message instead rather than the most recent
Improved "Time remaining" calculation when downloading or updating games

Big Picture:

Fixed a case where footer buttons could double activate and trigger an activation failure sound erroneously
Added support for purchasing subscription based games
Fixed a case where input focus could escape modal dialogs incorrectly

May 16th, 2013 - jmccaskey | 69 Comments

We have another update for the beta client tonight:

Fixed a rare crash if running Big Picture and alt-tabbed to another non-Steam and non-game window while Steam is trying to display a notification
Fixed Half-Life mods running the incorrect game binary under Mac OS X and Linux
Fixed desktop dialog layout when running an install script
Fixed regression causing rare store communication error in Big Picture