Valve have launched SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they famous has the beginnings of help for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we’re closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Though this launch continues to be only for Steam Deck.
Since it is a Preview model you have to have your Steam Deck replace settings set to Preview in Settings > System > System Replace Channel.
One of many good surprises for this Preview launch is including the power for Bluetooth controllers to wake the LCD Steam Deck mannequin!
Here is the complete checklist of modifications:
Common
- Up to date to a more recent Arch Linux base
- Up to date the Linux kernel to six.11
- Up to date the Mesa graphics driver base
- Desktop mode now ships with Plasma 6.2.5
- Beginnings of help for non-Steam Deck handhelds
Controllers and Enter
- Add help for the Proteus Byowave controller
- Mounted a difficulty the place Change Professional Controller gyros won’t work on first connection
- Mounted a difficulty with caught/hanging controller inputs when exiting Steam
Bluetooth
- Mounted Bluetooth units nonetheless with the ability to wake the Steam Deck from droop, even when Bluetooth was disabled from Desktop mode
- Allow HFP/HSP profiles, to permit utilizing the built-in microphone from headsets and earbuds
- At present solely obtainable to pick in Desktop mode
- Added battery stage show for supported Bluetooth units
- Embrace a bugfix for the Airpods when utilizing the AAC codec
- Bluetooth controllers can now wake LCD models from sleep, beforehand solely obtainable on OLED fashions
- Identified concern: Bluetooth LE primarily based controllers aren’t at the moment suitable with bluetooth wake on LCD fashions
Steam Deck Dock
- Made compatibility enhancements for sure shows together with TCL FireTV fashions and Dell VRR succesful displays
Graphics and Efficiency
- Enabled AMD P-State CPU frequency management
- Mounted a efficiency regression for No Relaxation for the Depraved
Desktop
- Up to date to Plasma 6.2.5 (beforehand 5.27.10) – see the large modifications in Plasma 6 here
- Encompass sound now works appropriately
- Enabling the setting is at the moment solely obtainable by way of Desktop mode
- KDE Filelight is now put in by default for disk utilization visualization and low disk house notifications
- Pace and robustness enhancements when switching between desktop and recreation mode
- Mounted a standard explanation for hangs when switching to desktop mode
- Mounted some instances the place Steam might take as much as ninety seconds to exit on shutdown or swap to desktop
- Added ‘gocryptfs’ help to desktop session to allow use of the Plasma Vaults function
Misc
- Mounted some instances the place “filter-chain” or different digital sound units would erroneously seem within the UI
- Mounted instances the place making use of system updates might fail if sure configuration recordsdata had been corrupted or malformed
- Numerous enhancements to System Report performance for help and troubleshooting
- Mounted compatibility concern with sure DNS servers inflicting very sluggish area lookups
- Improved responsiveness of system when operating into out-of-memory crash conditions
- Enabled IPv6 Privateness Extensions by default
Identified Points
- Inventive Zen Air Professional earbuds show an sudden all-zeros entry underneath the “Present all units” part when pairing
- Tremendous NES controllers can erroneously present up as related when they aren’t
- DualShock 3 controllers are at the moment not capable of be paired or used
Developer
- Up to date to a 6.11 primarily based kernel
- Added debuginfod URLs for SteamOS
- Added systemd .socket models to the default checklist of /and so on recordsdata preserved throughout updates
- When operating in a VM, system will now default to the desktop session
- Swap file setup now makes use of customary ‘mkswap’ performance as a substitute of transport an ad-hoc ‘mkswapfile’ script
- The steamos-readonly command now warns that the standing won’t be correct when sysexts are loaded
- Mounted a case that might introduce duplicate boot entries for units manually setup to dual-boot
- The pacman cache is now cleaned after making use of a SteamOS replace
- Fixes stale cache errors working with pacman after switching branches
Supply: Valve
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