• On a standalone host that knows its own hardware, the plugin now trusts the host's device identity. When the host reports what device it's running on (and which plugin version it loaded), device-aware shelves use that, falling back to the plugin's own detection otherwise — and the Diagnostics panel and bug-report text now show the host's device and that version too.
• A new Performance panel (Settings → Advanced → Developer mode) shows how busy the home-screen layer is — boot/mount timing, how many timers and watchers are active, and how often the home screen is re-checking itself — for anyone helping diagnose a slowdown. It only updates when you press Refresh, just like the existing System Information panel.
• Lower background CPU/battery use on the home screen. Several background checks that used to run on a fixed timer (to keep the native Recents row hidden correctly and to highlight the focused game) now only run in response to an actual change, and every shelf shares one check instead of each running its own. Highlight tracking also fully pauses while you're in a game. No visible change to behavior — just less work happening when nothing's changing.
• New smart shelves no longer show your hidden games by default. A shelf like "Recently Played" or "On Deck" used to treat a hidden game the same as any other — now it's filtered out from the start. It's a regular, visible filter on the shelf, so you can open the shelf's filter settings and remove it (or set it to "any") if you want hidden games back on that one. Shelves you already created aren't affected.
• A faster startup. A few background trackers that aren't needed for the home screen's first paint now start a beat later, once things settle, instead of competing with it right away. No visible change otherwise.
• More resilient startup. If the home screen's shelves ever fail to finish loading, the plugin now backs off automatically after 20 seconds — restoring Steam's own recents row too — so Steam's own home stays usable, instead of potentially getting stuck.
• Fixed a shelf reading from a Steam collection sometimes showing incomplete content for a few seconds right after restarting Steam, then correcting itself a moment later. Most noticeable on a composite shelf that combines a collection with other sources. Confirmed fixed on a real library that hit this every restart.
• Fixed the home screen's hero background sometimes briefly showing the wrong game's art while things are still loading on restart, before settling on the right one a couple of seconds later. Confirmed fixed with a frame-by-frame recording of an actual restart.
• The home screen no longer visibly reorganizes itself while shelves finish loading after a restart. Steam's own home now stays fully visible and usable the whole time; your shelves then appear all at once, already in their final order, instead of shifting around as each one finishes loading.
• Shelves built from a Steam collection — on their own or combined with other sources — now show up noticeably faster after restarting Steam, and smart shelves remember their last result across a restart instead of recalculating from scratch every time. Combined, these measurably shorten how long the home screen takes to settle after a restart.
• The Performance panel's numbers are now color-coded (good/worth-watching/worth-investigating), matching the same color language as the existing on-screen debug overlay, so you don't have to know what "normal" looks like to spot something off.
• Fixed a few Performance panel labels showing up in English regardless of your chosen language, and one label missing everywhere, including English. Both are now fixed across all supported languages.