We have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Added support for keyboard glyphs in the footer when using mouse/kb to interact with Big Picture Mode

Steam Input

• Added a new view in the configurator for Steam Input API games that lists out actions and their bindings rather than inputs to actions along with streamlined binding interface

• Added a new multi-binding page in the configurator for authoring button combinations that visualizes the timeline of command outputs and their settings

• Added support for inverting button chord bindings

• Fixed older-unnamed Virtual Menus showing up as "Create Virtual Menu" in some views

SteamRT3 Experimental Beta

• Fixed Night Mode

Remote Play

• Fixed EULA acceptance when starting a Remote Stream.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Client to the Preview/Beta channel.

General

• Fixed regression causing crash in native Linux version of some games.

• Fixed regression causing flicker and unwanted UI briefly after waking from sleep.

• Fixed an issue where virtual gamepads were torn down temporarily when a game called the ISteamUtils::SetGameLauncherMode api, which could cause titles that don't support controller hotplugging to lose input

Note: This update is for the Steam Deck Preview channel, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

Note on Preview Releases

This is an early Preview build of SteamOS 3.9, and may contain unexpected bugs or stability issues. If you encounter problems, please consider filing a bug on the SteamOS issue tracker.

These notes contain all changes since the current stable SteamOS 3.8 release, with the changes added since the previous preview noted below

General

• Fixed a system crash when launching Forza Horizon 6 on Legion Go 2

• Fixed an issue causing frame limits to result in lower than intended FPS on certain external displays

• Fixed issues with suspend/resume on systems with RDNA1 or RDNA2 based dedicated GPUs

• Fixed a regression in seamless boot causing the boot logo to disappear prior to the Steam startup animation

• Fixed a rare issue where fan speed would revert to BIOS control until a reboot, resulting in higher than normal fan speeds on Steam Deck

• Security and stability updates

Developer

• Fixed verbose-mode boots, triggered by the [c]steamos-bootdebug[/c] utility or chainloader menu, having their output hidden by plymouth

• Updated included renderdoc version

General

• Updated Arch Linux base

• Updated Desktop Mode from Plasma 6.4.3 to Plasma 6.7.3

  • For more information, see
    https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/
    https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/
    https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.5.0/

Misc

• Updated the bootloader to improve compatibility with certain motherboards

• The Desktop Mode lockscreen is no longer prevented from being explicitly enabled in settings (but remains off by default)

Developer

• Switched WiFi backend to wpa_supplicant by default for new installations, improving compatibility with various WiFi networks

  • Enhanced wpa_supplicant to support fast WiFi reconnect on resume from sleep, previously only available in the iwd backend

  • Known issue: Existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in Developer Settings

• Linux kernel rebased on Linux 7.2

• Added preliminary support for hibernation, not yet exposed in Game Mode UI

  • Enhanced Linux kernel hibernation support to enable interrupting hibernate requests and fixed various driver issues

• Various scripts and packages have been renamed from `steamos-` to `holo-`, with aliases to the former names where appropriate

• Improved support for running SteamOS as a VM guest with accelerated graphics (virtio-gpu, venus)

This update is for the SteamOS Beta and Preview channels, and includes new features that are still being tested. You can opt into this in Settings > System > System Update Channel.

General

• Fixed a rare issue where fan speed would revert to BIOS control until a reboot, resulting in higher than normal fan speeds

Le client Steam a été mis à jour dans le canal de sa version de prévisualisation/version bêta.

Général

• Correction d'une régression qui provoquait un plantage du client lors de l'interaction avec le menu déroulant « Outil de compatibilité » lorsque l'outil de compatibilité par défaut avait été désinstallé.

• Correction du problème suivant : l'option « Suspendre la limite de téléchargement » ne se mettait pas correctement à jour sur la page des téléchargements.

Steam Input

• Correction de la régression suivante : les associations des couches des ensembles d'actions cessaient de fonctionner lors de la modification de la configuration.

Microprogramme du Steam Controller

• Amélioration de l'émulation des vibrations et ajout de niveaux d'intensité configurables.

• Ajout d'un 2ᵉ emplacement pour l'association avec le Bluetooth à basse consommation (BLE). Pour démarrer l'association, maintenez les boutons L1 + B + Steam enfoncés lors de l'allumage du contrôleur. Pour basculer entre les emplacements, au démarrage, maintenez les boutons L1 + B + Steam ou les boutons R1 + B + Steam enfoncés. 

• Correction du problème suivant : certains joysticks ne parvenaient plus à atteindre leur amplitude maximale.