Latest SteamOS Beta Picks Up Linux Kernel 4.11.8 to Fix PS4 DS Controller Crash

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Valve released today a new Beta version of its Debian-based SteamOS gaming operating system that the company installs on various of the Steam Machines available on the market.

The SteamOS 2.119 update was pushed a few hours ago to the Brewmaster Beta channel, and it looks like it picks up a new kernel (linux, firmware-free, and firmware-nonfree), specifically Linux 4.11.8, to fix a crash that occurred when using the PlayStation 4 Dual Shock controller with the Steam for Linux client.

Besides that, the SteamOS 2.119 Beta release borrows a few of the latest security patches from the Debian GNU/Linux 8 “Jessie” software repositories, including for the Apache2 web server to fix five vulnerabilities, the GnuTLS secure communications library, as well as the expat, libffi, and libgcrypt20 libraries.

It also looks like the debian-archive-keyring upstream update was implemented … (read more)

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