SteamOS update 2.170 pushed to brewmaster_beta

[TTimo]

*Updated 2019/02/11: 2.170 has been promoted to general availability*

brewmaster:

- 2.166 has been promoted from beta to general availability
- 2.166 received an additional fix for apt CVE-2019-3462

brewmaster_beta 2.170:
- Security fixes

Please help us test beta if you are able!
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Opting-into-SteamOS-Beta
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/issues

[gibblets]

Yay, glad to see some motion on this again even if it's just a security update. Excited for the future and glad to see you're working on Proton & SteamOS!

[buckysrevenge]

Might have been a coincidence since the beta client got updated recently, but I had to re-enable non-white listed games for Proton, which is a pain in the butt since there still isn't any UI within BPM to do this and I can't get the regular client to load properly in desktop mode. I have to edit the config.vdf directly like this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5631#issuecomment-415071527

[thorneo]

Originally posted by TTimo:

brewmaster:

- 2.166 has been promoted from beta to general availability
- 2.166 received an additional fix for apt CVE-2019-3462

So what does " promoted from beta to general availability" Really mean?? I have not seen anything to annouce this on my SteamOS machine. Thier are no updates when I do a check for them.

[skinnyraf]

Originally posted by buckysrevenge:

Might have been a coincidence since the beta client got updated recently, but I had to re-enable non-white listed games for Proton, which is a pain in the butt since there still isn't any UI within BPM to do this and I can't get the regular client to load properly in desktop mode. I have to edit the config.vdf directly like this: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5631#issuecomment-415071527

That's a result of the client update, not SteamOS. Happened on regular distributions too.

[ʀʜᴀᴘsxᴅʏ]

Вступайте, только хардкор!!! http://steamcommunity.com/groups/Teamcommunityxmas

[TTimo]

Originally posted by thorneo:

Originally posted by TTimo:

brewmaster:

- 2.166 has been promoted from beta to general availability
- 2.166 received an additional fix for apt CVE-2019-3462

So what does " promoted from beta to general availability" Really mean?? I have not seen anything to annouce this on my SteamOS machine. Thier are no updates when I do a check for them.

We run a beta channel for SteamOS updates called brewmaster_beta. It is not as easy to opt in or out as the steam client beta unfortunately (especially the opting out part - best is to just roll back the root partition via the grub options). You can get details here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Opting-into-SteamOS-Beta

If your SteamOS installation is not updating (version 2.166 in Settings > System), please consider opening a bug report at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS

[buckysrevenge]

Originally posted by skinnyraf:

That's a result of the client update, not SteamOS. Happened on regular distributions too.

I heard about this and thought I fixed it already. Hi ho.

Regardless, here's to hoping BPM updates include more settings to make it easier to deal with things like this.

[Redface]

thanks for the security update, and finally to promote 2.166 out of beta, but updates, especially security updates should really happen more often.

[Redface]

Originally posted by TTimo:

Originally posted by thorneo:

So what does " promoted from beta to general availability" Really mean?? I have not seen anything to annouce this on my SteamOS machine. Thier are no updates when I do a check for them.

We run a beta channel for SteamOS updates called brewmaster_beta. It is not as easy to opt in or out as the steam client beta unfortunately (especially the opting out part - best is to just roll back the root partition via the grub options). You can get details here: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS/wiki/Opting-into-SteamOS-Beta

If your SteamOS installation is not updating (version 2.166 in Settings > System), please consider opening a bug report at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/SteamOS

To opt out you have to remove the beta repos, and this will not roll you back, but you will not get the next beta until they are out of beta, or you opt in again. So once stable is up to and ahead of what you have you get only the stable updates,

To do that run this command in a terminal:

sudo apt remove --purge steamos-beta-repo

[Eeshan Mulye]

Very good news

[Mohandevir]

Originally posted by TTimo:

Please help us test beta if you are able!

I would really like to, but Mesa 18.1.6 is too outdated to run SteamPlay adequately. I can't say for the whitelisted games, but the titles I play don't run well with this version of Mesa, with my RX580.

This said, thanks for the updates!

[ProfessorKaos64]

Thanks!!