A lot of fixes and improvements have been integrated in this update

Aug 29, 2013 06:50 GMT  ·  By

Valve has launched a new Stable version for its Steam for Linux client, which is actually made up from all the Beta releases made available so far.

When a development version garners sufficient changes, Valve promotes it to stable, and the work for the next beta starts almost immediately.

According to the changelog, Valve has fixed the particle system fuzziness in Big Picture on Linux and OSX to match the Windows counterpart, updated the client to SDL2, fixed a memory leak during voice communication on Linux, repaired a Steam crash on Linux systems with no USB support, and much more.

Also, the Steam client has received support for XFS and large drives and the Big Picture OpenGL rendering has received a number of improvements.

More details about this latest release can be found in the official announcement. Download the Steam for Linux installer from Softpedia.