The Steam Client Beta has been updated with the following changes:

General

  • Added a global setting for improved management of game updates.
  • Added a panel to manage per-game exceptions to the global setting.
  • Added keyboard controls for dropdown lists in the client.
  • Updated layout of downloads page for the active item.
  • Fixed Steam Client exiting instead of showing a refresh login dialog if another client session starts playing a game or resumes from suspend in a game session.
  • Fixed Steam Client exiting while running a game if a Steam Deck is resumed while running a non-Steam app.

Library

  • Fixed friends showing multiple times in the “In-Game” section if they also had the game on their wishlist.

Game Recording

  • Improved error messages for limited accounts sharing messages in chat or via the share menu.

Steam Overlay

  • Added support for bookmarks saved per game in the overlay browser.
  • Improved reliability of saving for notes.
  • Fixed scroll position, selection, and undo history getting lost when switching between notes.

Remote Play

  • Fixed Remote Play Together session not fully starting for some games running on macOS host systems.

Big Picture Mode

  • Fixed several issues where navigation could get stuck behind menus or dialogs.
  • Fixed an issue where the guide button would open the menu in the main steam window instead of in the game overlay.

macOS

  • Added “End of Life” alert for macOS 10.15 (“Catalina”). Steam Client support for these operating systems will end on February 15th, 2025 at 10am. See here for additional details.

Linux

  • Fixed a case where Steam could permanently inhibit the screensaver if it crashed while holding the screensaver lock.
  • Fixed potential crash when exiting a game if Game Recording is enabled on systems with recent versions of pipewire.

Steam Input

  • Reduced overhead/latency of controller input in Big Picture Mode and Virtual Menus
  • Slightly reduced steady-state CPU usage of Steam Input overall
  • Fixed some Linux-specific crashes
  • Fixed a crash at startup when certain analog keyboards are connected.
  • Fixed not being able to use “Export Layout->Save New Layout” when using a “Sharable Personal Layout”.
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