14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has just announced a new Beta version for its Steam Linux client, bringing a few changes and improvements to a feature that is not yet available to the general public.
Valve usually pushes a few Beta updates before upgrading the stable branch of Steam, and this is just one of these versions.
According to the developers, the connection ping used for the selection of Steam servers during logon has been improved and the performance of the client when re-downloading lots of games metadata on startup is now a lot better.
The Family Sharing feature has also received quite a few changes, but only a select few have had access to it. A few fixes have been added and the UI has been refined.
Users don't have to reinstall the application in order to get all these changes. A message prompt will be offered and users just have to accept it. You can also download the Steam installer from Softpedia if you don't have the client.