14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has released the first Beta update for its Steam client, after a major stable version was made available only yesterday.
Between stable builds, the developers release a large number of Beta versions, which integrate a lot of new features. This is just the first in a long line of development versions that will start to arrive.
“This beta is expected to only last a day or two before these fixes go public and then we'll have a new larger beta after that,” reads the official announcement.
According to the changelog, a regression with AppOverlay.dll causing compatibility issues with some applications has been fixed, some large SteamWorkshop mods causing some users to run out of memory and crash on update have been corrected, the PayPal purchase path has been improved in Big Picture mode, and some problems with timeouts that occurred when uploading leaderboard scores have been fixed.
More details about this latest release and the bugs that have been fixed can be found in the official announcement. Download the Steam for Linux installer from Softpedia.
Keep in mind that this is a Beta version and you might experience some problems with it. In order to get it, you have to enroll in the Beta program, from Preferences.