Analyzing update intervals of Steam Client (Steam News Hub)

> Someone asked what the average delay between first Beta update and then before it lands on Stable is. I can’t say that for all updates, and just listed all Beta updates since 24th of June this year (about 5 months span). I also listed all other stable Regular and Major updates as well. > > Let’s look at the recent PC Steam Client stable Update news history: https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/steam/ [https://store.steampowered.com/news/collection/steam/] > > First set filters (untick [ ] Steam Client Beta to see stable updates only): > > [https://infosec.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.zip%2Fapi%2Fv3%2Fimage_proxy%3Furl%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Flemmy.ml%252Fpictrs%252Fimage%252F546dd9fb-b285-4f89-bb25-850ffad44c89.png] > > Note, the Regular Updates are the big updates I think. In the below list, I list all small updates until last Regular one, then continue listing Regular only. Ah, while looking through the list I found there are also Major Updates. I think these are the biggest ones. After first Major, I will only list Major too: > > ### Small > > * Today: 2026-10-16 (+3 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-10-15 > * Small Stable: 2026-10-13 (+42 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-10-13 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-12 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-10 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-09 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-07 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-05 > - Small Beta: 2026-10-01 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-29 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-27 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-25 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-22 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-21 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-18 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-16 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-10 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-09 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-06 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-02 > - Small Beta: 2026-09-01 > * Small Stable: 2026-09-01 (+27 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-08-31 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-26 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-18 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-13 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-11 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-07 > - Small Beta: 2026-08-05 > * Small Stable: 2026-08-03 (+7 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-07-29 > * Small Stable: 2026-07-27 (+5 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-07-24 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-23 > * Small Stable: 2026-07-22 (+1 days since last Small Stable) > * Small Stable: 2026-07-21 (+28 days since last Small Stable) > - Small Beta: 2026-07-21 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-20 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-15 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-14 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-10 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-08 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-06 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-02 > - Small Beta: 2026-07-01 > - Small Beta: 2026-06-25 > - Small Beta: 2026-06-24 > * Small Stable: 2026-06-23 (+13 days since last Small Stable) > * Small Stable: 2026-06-10 (+9 days since last Small Stable) > * Small Stable: 2026-06-01 (+5 days since last Small Stable) > * Small Stable: 2026-05-27 (+5 days since last Small Stable) > * Small Stable: 2026-05-22 > > ### Regular > > * Today: 2026-10-16 (+151 days since last Regular Stable) > * Regular Stable: 2026-05-18 (+192 days since last Regular Stable) > * Regular Stable: 2025-11-07 (+367 days since last Regular Stable) > * Regular Stable: 2024-11-05 (+103 days since last Regular Stable) > * Regular Stable: 2024-07-25 > > ### Major > > * Today: 2026-10-16 (+842 days since last Major Stable) > * Major Stable: 2024-06-26 (+378 days since last Major Stable) > * Major Stable: 2023-06-15 (+267 days since last Major Stable) > * Major Stable: 2022-09-22 (+1089 days since last Major Stable) > * Major Stable: 2019-09-30 > > “NO MORE OLDER POSTS FOUND.” I reached the bottom, just like in real life. The duration for Regular and longer times are calculated with https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html [https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html] . BTW there were no Ai involved in making this post. > > What is the conclusion? An average makes no sense here, as Stable Small Updates can be 5 days or up to 42 days. At least since last summer of this year.