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SteamOS Update 123 Pushed To Alchemist Beta

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Hello all, On July 16th John Vert published that the SteamOS beta has been updated to version 123.

While this update isn't major, it includes an update to the Debian 7.6 base, a compositor update that fixes occasional corruption on the first overlay element that appears (notifications, etc.), and a fix for the issue that caused multiple reboots to be required after updates. This update also features a few security fixes.

The full changelog can be found below.

Quotesteamos-compositor - Fix occasional flash of corruption the first time the overlay or a notification is shown
apache2 - upstream security fixes CVE-2013-6438, CVE-2014-0098
base-files - Update /etc/debian_version to 7.6, for Debian 7.6 point release
cups - upstream security fix for CVE-2014-2856
libjpeg8 - upstream security fix for CVE-2013-6629 and CVE-2013-6630
libopenobex - latest upstream fixes
libxml2 - upstream security fix for CVE-2014-0191
openssh - latest upstream release
dbus - upstream security fixes CVE-2014-3532, CVE-2014-3533,
e2fsprogs - Latest upstream release
elfutils - latest upstream updates
gnupg - upstream security fix, CVE-2014-4617
steamos-autoupdate - remove minimal-steps flag


Source: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamuniverse/discussions/1/43099721372266610/

What do you guys think about this update? Any of you running SteamOS? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Shmerl Jul 21, 2014
Quoting: n30p1r4t3
Quoting: ShmerlWhat is SteamOS compositor? Does it use Wayland in any way?
It's based on xcompmgr, but has (as of a while ago) 4200 lines of additional patches.

I'm not sure, no do I think that it works with wayland [yet].

So it is using X.org. At least it's good they aren't trying to reinvent the wheel and make their own display server (like Ubuntu does). Hopefully they'll turn it into Wayland compositor when the drivers will make it possible.
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