SteamOS brewmaster update 2.93 released by Valve

Sep 27, 2016 23:40 GMT  ·  By

Valve's SteamOS 2 gaming operating system is still getting goodies, and it looks like a new Beta update has been pushed on September 26, 2016, to the brewmaster_beta channel for public beta testers.

That's right, SteamOS 2.93 Brewmaster Beta is here to replace the previous build announced earlier this month, SteamOS 2.91 Brewmaster Beta, and add the latest security fixes and updates from upstream. This means that SteamOS is now officially based on the recently released Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 "Jessie" operating system.

"SteamOS brewmaster update 2.93 pushed to brewmaster_beta. Corrects a build issue where the last kernel updates were not actually included. Also updates from the Debian 8.6 release[www.debian.org] and the usual security fixes," says John Vert, Valve engineer, in the release announcement.

Here's what's new in SteamOS 2.93 Beta

So besides fixing the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) build error for the AMDGPU PRO graphics driver, which did not allow the latest Linux kernel updates to be included in the distribution, the SteamOS 2.93 Beta implements the ATH10K_FW_FEATURE_IGNORE_OTP_RESULT variable for the ath10k wireless driver.

Additionally, it gets all the latest security fixes released upstream as part of the Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 "Jessie" operating system for various components and applications, including Apache2, e2fsprogs, GnuPG and GnuPG2, File, libidn, libxml2, MySQL 5.5, Open-iSCSI, OpenSSL, PolicyKit, Python 2.7, SQLite 3, GNU Wget, WPA, and libarchive.

Therefore, if you're on the SteamOS Brewmaster Beta channel, you should update to the 2.93 build as soon as possible. New installation mediums have been made available and can be downloaded right now via our website. However, please note that this is a pre-release version, and it should not be used if you want a stable SteamOS experience.