Updating figures and ds

I noticed today that in my smart content tab under G3 and G8 figures starter essentials there is a tag that says “new”. Has there been a recent update? I remember doing this but does the starter essentials update regularly?
Also are there any updates to DS itself. My friend says he keeps his DS updated to the latest build
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New means that the product has been reinstalled, or that you've grouped it as new. If you open and click on All Files you can enter Group::new in the filter field to see which, if any, files have been changed (assuming you had un-Newed them previously).