New Major Steam Client Update

Valve has released the latest string of beta changes into the main client which fixes and ton of issues.

Good to see Valve react so quickly to pushing out support for the latest version of Ubuntu which they only officially support, but we all know Steam runs nicely on a host of different distributions. It's even pre-installed on some.

Linux Specific Changes

• Updated the steam-runtime for Ubuntu 14.04 compatibility
• Fixed potential hang when using certain UI toolkits that relied on SIGCHLD
• Fixed a game crash occurring when more than ten processes were attached to the Steam overlay, fixing "CID The Dummy" on Linux
• Added support for setting voice input device in Big Picture

All platforms

• Added support for regional EULAs
• Improved caching of leaderboard API requests
• Improved handling of warnings on unrecognized links in chat
• Fixed bug causing Windows service log message "Error: Failed to poke open firewall"
• Fixed installing games from older retail discs
• Fix message shown when you unblock someone
• Improved keyboard accessibility in block/unblock success dialog
• Fixed removing empty sub folders after game updates
• Fixed SteamGuard UI problem preventing login in rare configurations
• Fixed launching games dialog getting stuck in "Preparing to launch..." state
• Fixed installed apps detecting content updates
• Fixed inability to install games or force updates outside of the auto-update time window, if specified
• Fixed repeated attempts to apply pending updates to a game that is currently running

Big Picture

• Load correct localized eula if the language changes in the Choose Language panel
• Fix progress % displayed for items that are queued for download
• Fixed a bug in Web browser where big pages would be erroneously clamped
• Fixed UI for pre-loading games
• Added login help support for forgotten password and account name

Virtual Reality Mode

• Added “Virtual Reality mode” to the View menu and removed the –vr command line option. This will only appear if SteamVR is installed and if a supported HMD is detected
• Added support for switching from desktop mode to VR, then back to desktop and into Big Picture
• Added support for detecting when an HMD has been plugged in after Steam has started
• When running in VR mode Steam will now open only the VR window and not the normal Big Picture window
• Moved VR mode log files under the Steam client install directory

Official info here. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.