Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

For those of you using SteamOS, you might want to know about a new beta Valve just put out. It features the usual security updates as well as a few other niceties.The Linux Kernel has been updated to 4.11.4, Mesa got updated to 17.1.2 and there's also a DualShock 4 gamepad crash fix. You can find the full changelog here . Not a huge release, but it's important that Valve continue to push out updates to keep it alive (and useful!).It's really great to see Valve starting to push out quicker updates once again, after it being delayed a while before the recent big update Valve are quite obviously playing the long game here, as they continue to update the core components while their own employed Mesa developers (and the various others) plug away at making the open source drivers better.It will be interesting to see what Valve do with it in future, but it's days are not over — yet. SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS.Note: Since people clearly didn't get the joke about "SteamOS is dead, long live SteamOS". It's a play on the saying, due to the amount of times people and the media have claimed SteamOS/Steam Machines are dead.