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Welcome to the Steam Client Beta group.

Opting in to the Steam Client Beta lets you see the latest features before they're released. You can find out how to opt in to a beta here:
https://help.steampowered.com/faqs/view/276C-85A0-C531-AFA3

You can see the latest Client Beta updates on this group's announcement page. Join the group to get updates delivered to your Friend Activity feed.
http://five.seafn.eu.org/groups/SteamClientBeta#announcements

Your testing and feedback is an enormous help! Please be sure to visit the discussions area and leave any feedback or bug reports you have:
http://five.seafn.eu.org/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions

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Steam Client Beta - October 28th

October 28 - lostgoat | 17 Comments

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

General

Fixed "friend joins a game" notifications being dropped when several friends start games within 10 seconds
Fixed a bug that would cause "When a friend comes online" and "When a friend joins a game" notification sounds to not respect "Show Notification Toasts" and "Play a sound when a notification toast is displayed" settings
Per-friend notifications now override global notification settings correctly in all cases

Big Picture Mode

Improved Quick Access Menu responsiveness
Fixed a bug that caused per-friend notification settings to be ignored

Linux

Re-styled the Steam updater UI

Steam Client Beta - October 26th

October 26 - lostgoat | 27 Comments

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

Steam Input

Added support for GameInput v4

Remote Play

Start streaming faster when connecting to a local computer
Fixed the "..." button on the Steam Controller not being passed through to the remote side

Linux

Fixed a crash when resuming from suspend

Big Picture Mode

Updated the styling of the chat tab to better convey focus states
Game invites from friends now have a dedicated widget in the chat window above the text entry, instead of having to navigate to the exact message in the chat history window. Individual invites from friends in a group also show in the group chat window instead of having to navigate to the individual friend's 1-1 chat tab to accept.
Improved the group chat layout and fixed areas where gamepad navigation could get stuck
Friend chat message notifications will now be rolled up rather than sending one 2 second notification per message
Plumbed the per-friend voice chat levels to the friend context menu in BPM

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