14 DAY TRIAL // Valve has released today a new Beta version of the SteamOS operating system that the company is using on Steam Machines. The new update was pushed to the brewmaster_beta channel and is versioned as SteamOS 2.110.
As many of you are aware, SteamOS is derived from the Debian GNU/Linux operating system, on which the popular Ubuntu OS is also based. Debian Project recently released the seventh maintenance update to the Debian Jessie stable series, Debian GNU/Linux 8.7, and Valve rebased its SteamOS gaming distribution on the new Debian release.
As such, the SteamOS 2.0 Build 110 Beta update adds over 170 security patches and bug fixes for numerous internal components, including but not limited to Bash (fixes CVE-2016-0634 and CVE-2016-7543), BIND9 (fixes CVE-2016-9131, CVE-2016-9147, and CVE-2016-9444), Cairo (fixes CVE-2016-9082), and GnuTLS 2.8 (fixes CVE-2016-7444).
Additionally, it includes security updates for the Cairo (fixes CVE-2016-9082), libpng (fixes CVE-2016-10087), Nettle (fixes CVE-2016-6489), PCSC-Lite (fixes CVE-2016-10109), Evolution Data Server, D-Bus, File, Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM), mpg123, ca-certificates, and Sed packages.
Mesa 13.0.3 3D Graphics Library and Nvidia 375.26 proprietary drivers now available
This being a large update and all that, it also includes the latest Mesa 13.0.3 3D Graphics Library, which brings many improvements to the Intel, Nouveau, AMDGPU, and RadeonSI graphics drivers, as well as the proprietary Nvidia 375.26 graphics driver, which is currently the latest long-lived branch recommended by Nvidia.
SteamOS 2.0 Build 110 follows on the Beta version released earlier this month, SteamOS 2.0 Build 109, which adds many security updates for the APT, game-music-emu, libgd2, libupnp, libxml2, Samba, tevent, gst-plugins-good0.10, gst-plugins-good1.0, icu, tzdata, Vim, debian-installer (supports Linux kernel 4.1) packages.
The firmware-nonfree package has been updated as well to fix Wi-Fi on Zotac NEN Steam Machines. If you want to take the new SteamOS 2.0 Build 110 Beta for a test drive, you can download the ISO images right now from our website, but please try to keep in mind that this is a pre-release version and is not suitable for a stable gaming experience.
In related news, Valve today updated the Steam Client to a new stable version that introduces a multitude of improvements for GNU/Linux distributions, providing an out-of-the-box experience on all distros, idle detection, close to tray behavior, and much more. The update also includes dozens of Steam Controller enhancements.