The last Steam Client Beta build has been promoted to the official release build. You can find the final change log on the Steam news page: http://store.steampowered.com/news/10165/

Thanks to everyone for your feedback, your help with testing, and your bug reports!

Today we’re adding three new Community features to the Steam Client Beta; a new Community Home page, the addition of Artwork to hubs, and changes to the main Steam navigation menu. You can help us out by testing them and providing your feedback.

The new Community Home removes the extra step of selecting a hub to view and puts the best content across all game and software hubs in front of you on the front page. No more seeing an interesting image and then having to find it in the hub to learn more about it—now it’s just endless scrolling of the best rated news, screenshots, videos, discussions, ….and artwork.

Speaking of artwork, we’ve added a new tab to all Valve game hubs where anyone can share the game-related art they’ve created. This addition is based on feedback from the community on the need to share more types of images than just screenshots. There’s a ton of great game-related art being created by Steam users that we think has a rightful place on the hubs.

We’re going to test this out with our own games first, then expand it out for other games in the future. To upload artwork, go to the related Game Hub's Artwork tab and look for the "Upload Artwork" button at the top right. We’ve seeded the Valve hubs with some concept and character art. Hope you enjoy it!

The third change is a new drop down navigation in the main Steam nav. With the Community features we’ve added over the last year the Community navigation has become lengthy. We’ve broken out all the links that relate to You from links that relate to the larger Steam Community, improving clarity and giving us more space (enough to bring Groups back!)

These changes are viewable on the web now and will be in the client shortly.

Thanks for your help and your bug reports!

We just added a new home page for guides that should make it easier to find what you are looking for.

At the top of the page, there's a section that displays the most popular categories and how many guides are in each.

If you've added any guides to your Favorites list, you'll see the latest three guides in a section underneath the category breakdown.

And at the bottom of the page, you'll see the top 10 recent popular guides.

As always, if you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear it. Head over to the discussions area and let us know what you think: Game Guide Discussions.

And if you've made a guide, please post in this thread.

It's been just five days since the Steam Guide beta started with members of this group. So far, over a thousand guides have been created, with more being added for games across Steam every day!

We've been getting some great feedback and have been working on adding features and fixing bugs as we discover them. If you have feedback, suggestions, or questions, please make use of the Game Guide Discussions. Also, if you've made a guide, please post in this thread and show us your handiwork.

Here are the additions, fixes, and improvements that we've added over the last couple days:

• Added support for bb code tables and guide descriptions
  
• Added more options for alignment and size when inserting images
  
• Languages: Guides can now be tagged with a specific language. Support for filtering by language is coming shortly.
  
• YouTube videos: YouTube videos now only load when they become visible on the page, rather than trying to load all videos at once when the page loads.
  
• Selection indicator in the table of contents (right hand side) now moves to highlight the appropriate section as you scroll down the page
  
• Added yellow beta call-out in the upper-left corner of guide pages

The beta testing has been going great and we're getting some excellent feedback from folks creating guides. If you have feedback, suggestions, or questions, please make use of the Game Guide Discussions. Also, if you've made a guide, please post in this thread and show us your handiwork.

Here at the Valve offices, we've been hard at work fixing bugs and adding features to make guides more useful and accessible. Here's the changelist from today:

General Additions & Updates

• Guides you create from now on will appear in your friends' activity feed
  
• The rating bar now sticks to the top of your browser when scrolling down a guide so you can rate or share the guide wherever you are down the page
  
• Added "Guides" link to right column of profile and friends activity feed to help find the guides you have created or someone else when viewing their profile

Fixes to guide creation

• Reducing size of description box. This should be a brief overview rather than the actual contents of your guide.
  
• Fixed description field character limit.
  
• Making youtube video names visible when selecting them to add to your guide.
  
• Fixing encoding to allow for special characters.

Fixes to browsing guide listing

• Updated the visuals for guide list
  
• If you are viewing a guide and click on the tags in the right column, they now show guide listing that is properly filtered to that tag
  
• Star ratings now show up on individual items in browse view
  
• Fixed paging when browsing. Now remembers number per page.
  
• Added a title to the browse page