Users will get the new update when they open the application

Sep 16, 2014 14:07 GMT  ·  By

The Beta branch of the Steam distribution platform has been updated by Valve and the devs have explained that a few changes have been made.

The size of the Beta releases is getting smaller and smaller and that means a stable version is on its way. There is no way to say when that will happen, but it's going to be very soon.

The changelog is very small and holds just a few changes. For example, installing games using "-applaunch" or "steam://install" commands is now working properly, some cases where invalid URL strings would be parsed as URLs in chats have been corrected, the AMD hardware encoding quality for In-Home Streaming has been improved, and a rare crash with windowed game capture has been corrected.

You can find a more detailed list of changes in the official announcement.

If you don’t have the client, you can download the Steam for Linux installer from Softpedia. This is not the actual application, but a small tool provided by Valve that downloads the software and takes care of any dependencies.

You will have to opt in for the Beta channel in order to get the latest improvements. The new update will be performed automatically.