Some of the individual changes are fairly minor, but taken together it's definitely more flexible than it used to be, and sticklers who really want to know exactly what Steam is up to at any given time will no doubt find it more informative as well. For workshop updates, a page of subscribed items ordered by update date can be accessed by selecting 'View Updated Items' from the context menu. The patch notes link will only show up on updates, not fresh installs. This will only display for games that have entered patch notes into the new event system.

The 'View News' button is now a 'Patch Notes' link that will open an overlay to the most recent relevant patch notes for the game.The context menu for the actively downloading item now includes an option to launch the game when the download is complete and an option to suspend download throttling (if enabled) for the duration of that download.The download queue is now fully reorderable using drag and drop.This icon only appears if the update is not solely game content. Types consist of Game Content, Downloadable Content, Workshop Content, and Shader Pre-caching. A new (i) icon next to the game's title will reveal a tooltip displaying the types of content that is included in that update.Any partially completed downloads/updates in queue will now show a faded progress bar and percent completed next to it to clearly display its current state.Previously the progress bar would only display the downloading content progress but not the disk allocation process which would make an update to appear completed when it was not. When a game/update is actively downloading it will now display the total progression completed for the download or update.

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