Includes the latest security updates from Debian Linux

Jul 7, 2017 18:42 GMT  ·  By

Valve released today a new Beta version of its Debian-based SteamOS gaming operating system that the company installs on various of the Steam Machines available on the market.

The SteamOS 2.119 update was pushed a few hours ago to the Brewmaster Beta channel, and it looks like it picks up a new kernel (linux, firmware-free, and firmware-nonfree), specifically Linux 4.11.8, to fix a crash that occurred when using the PlayStation 4 Dual Shock controller with the Steam for Linux client.

Besides that, the SteamOS 2.119 Beta release borrows a few of the latest security patches from the Debian GNU/Linux 8 "Jessie" software repositories, including for the Apache2 web server to fix five vulnerabilities, the GnuTLS secure communications library, as well as the expat, libffi, and libgcrypt20 libraries.

It also looks like the debian-archive-keyring upstream update was implemented in SteamOS 2.119 Beta to update the GnuPG archive keys of the Debian archive. So if you're using the SteamOS Beta version, you should be able to update to these new components as we speak using the built-in package manager.

But for those who want to take the latest SteamOS Beta release for a test drive on their personal computers, we provide download links to the installation images, which they need to write on either a USB flash drive or DVD disc to be able to install the Linux-based operating system created by Valve.