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General

• Improved controller hotplug detection for some third party devices.

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games or switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.

• Fixed game preloads showing 0bps disk activity.

• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

Steam Overlay

• Fixed links opened from chat window showing in desktop browser rather than overlay browser.

Big Picture Mode

• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

Server Browser

• Fixed bug causing bots to contribute to the player count.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare Dualsense Edge gyroscope related bug.

Linux

• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed when necessary.

• Fixed game recordings containing a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width was not a multiple of 64.

• Fixed Game Recording and Remote Play video streams showing green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

Steamworks API

• GameOverlayActivated_t is now sent to the current VR app when the SteamVR Dashboard is opened or closed.

VR

• Fix a case where the Steam Link VR client would get a key mismatch error on stream start.

• Steam will no longer occasionally reload itself when SteamVR closes.

We have just shipped an updated Steam Deck Client to the Stable channel.

General

• Moved display dim and suspend timeout settings to Settings->Power.

• Moved 'Show Battery Percentage' setting to Settings->Power.

• Clicking on the battery header icon now navigates to Settings->Power.

• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed based on Steam Deck compatibility testing results.

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games.

• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

• Fixed controller not working intermittently after Steam restart.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.

• Fixed battery percentage not showing in the header when the battery is full.

• Fixed SteamOS compatible devices showing Steam Deck Verified installation warnings instead of the SteamOS Compatible version.

• Fixed transitions snapping backwards in the Welcome Wizard.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare DualSense Edge gyroscope related bug.

Desktop Mode

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.