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A rather substantial update was released tonight for the Steam client from Valve. Tonight's update includes, among many other things, new Steam Family Options.
Changelog for the Steam client for January 7, 2014
Changelog for the Steam client for January 7, 2014
General
Big Picture
- Introducing Steam Family Options , a new way for parents and families to establish access to the Steam features and content they choose.
- Added global setting to allow downloads during gameplay, and change the per-app settings to be global/allow/deny.
- Added UI for Family Sharing to specify which accounts may play games on authorized computers
- Add disk-activity indicator to downloads page, will light up if updates are slowed because Steam is waiting for the local disk to write data
- Simplify application name displayed for Steam executable in Windows firewall and crash dialogs
- Fixed a crash that could occur when quitting the Steam Client
- Fixed canceled recurring subscriptions to remain valid until expired
- Fixed current download rate display when downloads are paused/stopped
- Fixed regression with downloading optional DLC while the app is running
- Fixed crash in game backup code if a user didn't own a mounted depot
- Fixed estimated download-time staying blank in the Downloads page
- Fixes for Asian text input in the Steam overlay affecting the input state of the game
Big Picture
- Add control of per-game update settings under "Links and More" in the Library
- Fixed download progress indicator to correctly start at 0%, not 100%
- Fixed smooth scrolling in some panels to not jitter backwards before continuing to correct scroll offset
- Fixed Steam Controller bindings left browse column to scroll correctly as focus moves off screen
- Most notification toasts should now respond to pressing the guide button or clicking on the notification
- Modal dialogs should now close when clicking outside of the dialog
- Fix estimated download time remaining string getting cut off