SteamOS 3.6.19 replace has been launched at the moment for the Steam Deck with an enormous quantity of fixes and modifications. Have a look beneath to learn the total changelog.
SteamOS 3.6.19 Steam Deck Replace
SteamOS 3.6.19 has been launched to the Steady channel for Deck with the next modifications:
Basic
Up to date to a more moderen Arch Linux base, and up to date Linux kernel to model 6.5
These updates enhance {hardware} compatibility, system efficiency, safety, and total system stability
Improved pace of subsequent OS updates
Improved reliability of sure microSD card utilization situations
Labored round misdetection of some SanDisk microSD playing cards
Improved responsiveness of session restart in case of session crashes brought on by sure GPU errors
Mounted a difficulty the place sure video games might crash with a ‘web page allocation failure’ after an extended play session
Improved restoration from conditions the place the Steam set up might get corrupted
Mounted some connectivity failures with entry factors supporting WPA3 safety
Mounted an issue the place Steam Deck can be unable to connect with sure Wi-Fi 7 entry factors
Mounted sport session cursor offset alignment
Mounted a difficulty the place a skinny gray line might seem on the backside of the display throughout boot in some conditions
Mounted a difficulty the place the Efficiency Overlay would spuriously allow itself beneath sure situations
Mounted a difficulty stopping sleep on some varieties of aftermarket SSDs
Mounted a difficulty stopping replace checks from working correctly on networks with an invalid IPv6 configuration
Mounted a difficulty the place touching the left trackpad after sleep might lead to a spurious haptic click on
Mounted a normal subject affecting OLED items on 3.5, inflicting a sluggish reminiscence leak throughout gameplay
Mounted a difficulty inflicting a “Replace Error” message when trying to work together with the replace menu on the ‘Preview’ replace channel.
Mounted the body limiter not correctly making use of in sure conditions
Mounted a difficulty the place block corruption might seem on display on sure state transitions
Mounted a difficulty the place updating the built-in controller firmware might lead to a clean display throughout boot
Mounted a uncommon subject the place sound output may very well be corrupted on sure boots
Mounted a uncommon subject the place 3.5mm headphones might produce elevated background noise on reconnection till subsequent sleep/resume
Mounted a difficulty the place updates would generally be utilized incorrectly if the unit was powered off abruptly close to the top of an OS replace
Mounted a difficulty with copy-pasting UTF-8 textual content throughout functions
Mounted an issue the place a Sport Recording seize failing might trigger subsequent captures to additionally fail
Mounted a crash when utilizing the magnifier software whereas sport recording is energetic
Mounted colorspace for Sport Recording
Mounted a difficulty the place colours might seem washed out when utilizing Steam Distant Play as a shopper
Mounted a doable crash when utilizing Steam Deck because the Distant Play host
Mounted a difficulty that might trigger movies to stutter in titles resembling BlazBlue Centralfiction
Mounted a difficulty with a uncommon session crash throughout early startup of ELDEN RING
Mounted show regressions with sure titles resembling Warriors All-Stars, Disgaea 5 Full, Vampire: The Masquerade – Reckoning of New York
Labored round a bug the place HDR couldn’t be chosen in Halo Infinite
Mounted a difficulty inflicting non permanent information to accrue when utilizing Flatpak
Safety repair for Flatpak (CVE-2024-42472)
Graphics and Efficiency
Up to date graphics driver to Mesa 24.1, with many efficiency and different enhancements
Improved responsiveness of the Steam UI
Improved efficiency and stability in reminiscence stress conditions
Barely improved chilly boot time
Show
Improved show uniformity, beneath some situations (Mura Compensation)
Improved show shade stability (decreased inexperienced tint) at decrease brightness ranges, beneath some situations
Improved gamma uniformity (yellow tint), beneath some situations
Mounted sure particular refresh charges failing to use on the OLED Restricted Version mannequin
Mounted a difficulty the place the interior show might stay clean after disconnecting an exterior show
Mounted a difficulty the place inner show may very well be abnormally restricted to a decrease body fee after disconnecting an exterior show with VRR enabled
Mounted uncommon conditions the place switching to Desktop Mode or again might lead to a clean display, or flawed colours
Exterior Show
Mounted a number of points the place an exterior show might stay clean after resuming
Mounted a difficulty the place an exterior show might stay clean if its mode required chroma subsampling
Mounted a difficulty the place the system might crash on wakeup if an exterior DisplayPort monitor was related
Mounted a system crash when hotplugging a second show in Desktop mode
Improved body pacing with VRR on exterior shows
Bluetooth
Improved pairing expertise with Apple AirPods
Enabled help for Bluetooth HFP and BAP profiles
Added mechanism to configure which Bluetooth gadget classes are allowed to wake the system from droop
By default, controllers are the one gadgets that may wake the system from sleep
Finer-grained UI configuration choices shall be obtainable as a part of a future replace
Improved connection pace of some Bluetooth gadgets
Mounted a difficulty the place Bluetooth peripherals would disconnect on session change
Enter
Added help for additional ROG Ally keys
Added help for the ASUS ROG Raikiri Professional controller
Added help for the Machenike G5 Professional controller
Added help for the Steam Deck movement sensors to the built-in non-Steam kernel driver
Mounted a difficulty the place scroll wheel Steam Enter bindings weren’t useful
Mounted a difficulty the place DualShock 4 and DualSense controllers would generally not operate correctly on their first connection
Mounted calibration on some third-party DualShock 4 controllers
Desktop Mode
Up to date to KDE Plasma 5.27.10
Enabled thumbnail previews for movies within the file browser
Mounted a difficulty with desktop use that might trigger subsequent microSD card auto-mount to fail
Mounted Zenity dialog bins
Mounted nested desktop crashing on launch
BIOS / Firmware
Adjusted energy LED sluggish charging threshold
Mounted not with the ability to set the SDCard as default boot gadget
Mounted spurious energy LED blinking in S5
Steam Deck OLED solely
Added help for the Home windows Bluetooth driver (LCD fashions have already got Home windows Bluetooth help)
Steam Deck LCD solely
Improved battery life by as much as 10% in mild load conditions
Added overclocking controls
Steam Deck Docking Station
Added help for some HDMI CEC options:
TV distant enter
TV get up
TV enter switching
Up to date Dock firmware, with compatibility fixes for high-refresh-rate VRR shows, and fixing a number of points the place shows might stay clean
Improvement and Modding
Modified information in /and many others are actually migrated to new OS variations based mostly on a whitelist
Fixes quite a few points with by the way touched /and many others information changing into ‘sticky’ and persisting unexpectedly
Extra whitelist entries could be added by way of config fragments
See /and many others/atomic-update.conf.d/example-additional-keep-list.conf
Added /and many others/earlier/ containing modifications from the earlier replace to stop surprising knowledge loss
As much as 5 earlier snaphots of /and many others modifications will moreover be retained in /var/lib/steamos-atomupd/etc_backup/
Added help for {ssh,sshd}_config fragments
Cut up package deal reinstallation step out of `steamos-devmode` command and into new `steamos-unminimize` command. `steamos-devmode` now merely enters read-write mode and initializes the pacman keyring to be used, and is far faster.
openssh: Repair distant code execution bug (CVE-2024-6387)
