DOSBox Staging

[!WARNING] These are the automatically generated release notes of the latest development snapshot builds! This is not a stable release; things might blow up! 💣 🔥 💀

You can download the latest development builds from here: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/

Full PR list of game compatibility improvements

• Fix Frontier: First Encounters crash on non-x86 platforms (#4892)
• Improve PC speaker impulse model (#4906)

Full PR list of graphics-related changes

• Add 'vesa_custom_resolution' setting (#4985)
• Add wrap_modeN shader pragma (#4901)
• Clear BIOS cursor type in EGA/VGA graphics modes (#4959) [backport]
• Deinterlacer & image capture fixes (#4969) [backport]
• Externalise hardcoded cga_colors palettes (#4976)
• Fix auto integer scaling (#4902) [backport]
• Only lock/unlock SDL surface when it is not already in that state (#4970) [backport]
• Save window size & position on mapper exit (#4967)

Full PR list of sound-related changes

• Improve PC speaker impulse model (#4906)
• Post SDL3 mixer cleanup and bugfixes (#4973)
• Reduce GUS frame processing overhead (#4956)
• Remove stray OPL3_ProcessSlotMaybeInline (#4918)
• Replace Nuked-OPL3 with Nuked-OPL3-fast (#4910)
• Send samples to Mixer::AddSamples in batches (#4916)
• Update Nuked-OPL3-fast to v1.8-fast.3 (#4981)

Full PR list of DOS integration related changes

• Add CHCP to allow changing only the codepage. (#4997)
• Add recognition of multiple floppy extensions and recognition as floppy images based on disk geometry (#4882)
• Convert filenames to UTF-8 on host and Codepage 437 in DOS (#4966) [backport]
• Default MediaId to HardDisk like in original codebase (#4932) [backport]
• Fix CPU slice dependent DOS file I/O delay (0.81.0 regression) (#4991) [backport]
• Implement DOS STACKS-type feature for keyboard and timer interrupts (#4855)

Full PR list of localisation-related changes

• docs: Add German translations for newly-added CHCP/KEYB changes. (#5001)
• Update French translation strings and typo fixes (#4875) [backport]
• Update german (de) translation (#4934) [backport]

Full PR list of documentation-related changes

• Add Claude Code rules for C++ style, docs style, and commits (#4887)
• Add policy about the use of generative AI tools (#4914)
• Automatic documentation preview deploys (#4895)
• docs: Add section about Windows command line jank (#4975) [backport]
• Finalise CMake build instructions (#4989)

Full PR list of project maintenance related changes

• Add option to run the tests with the compile commits script (#4938)
• Add zed directory to gitignore (#4968)
• Address all PVS Studio warnings (#4890)
• Build system fixes & improvements (#4868)
• build: Only require MT32 Package when OPT_MT32EMU is actually enabled (#4940) [backport]
• Bump vcpkg baseline & fix failing CI actions (#5005)
• ci: Bump Windows runner to VS2026 (#4757)
• Clean up platform-specific code compilation (#4899)
• Enable Xcode 26 compilation caching for macOS CMake presets (#4912)
• Fix GCC 16 compiler warning (#4917)
• Fix VS2022 presets (#4889)
• Improve Windows portable ZIP repackager script (#4873)
• Kill the Meson build system with fire 🔥🔥🔥 (#4903)
• Move ZMBV from src/libs to the main source tree (#4896)
• Run unit tests in parallel on CI (#4874)
• Statically link Windows exe & system deps support fixes (#4867)
• Update vcpkg baseline and remove libsystemd custom port (#4928)
• Upgrade to C++23 and fix compatibility issues (#4891)

Full PR list of miscellaneous enhancements

• Allow shutdown via POST /api/v1/dosbox/shutdown (#4842)
• Implement the pause feature properly (#4957)

Full PR list of miscellaneous fixes

• Improve disk noise and disk speed settings log output (#4880) [backport]

Full PR list of other changes

• Change default webserver port from 8080 to 8086 (#4881) [backport]
• External dependency caching for the CI actions (#4909)
• Fix Frontier: First Encounters crash on non-x86 platforms (#4892)
• Fix linux.yml (#4924)
• Migrate to SDL3 (#4714)
• Retry MkDocs build and git pushes via retry action (#4950)
• Update macOS runner to macos-26 (#4919)
• Upgrade Linux CI runner image & minimum compiler versions (#4913)

Commit authors

[!WARNING] These are the automatically generated release notes of the latest development snapshot builds! This is not a stable release; things might blow up! 💣 🔥 💀

You can download the latest development builds from here: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/

Full PR list of game compatibility improvements

• Add configurable mouse mickey threshold (#4681)
• Add mouse hack for 'Joan of Arc: Siege & the Sword' game on Hercules machine (#4699)
• CDROM Audio: Do not continue to the next track if less than 2 seconds remains (#4487)
• Do not hard exit when encountering unimplemented PIC functions (#4225) [backport]
• Fix INT10_SetVideoMode() regression (#4182) [backport]
• Fix aspect ratio of 40-column text modes on VGA with shaders that force no pixel doubling (#4397)
• Fix command line parser bug where an extension-less file prevents execution (#4185) [backport]
• Fix edge case where CDROM mixer hangs at the end of a track (#4302)
• Fix Frontier: First Encounters crash on non-x86 platforms (#4892)
• Fix GUS hang in KQ4 enhanced (#4787)
• Fix ManyMouse support in Windows builds (#4035) [backport]
• Implement auto config option for file_locking (#4721)
• Improve DOS builtin mouse driver configurability (#4284)
• Sync with SVN r4485-r4494 (#4710)
• VESA 2.0 mode list regression fix (#4245) [backport]

Full PR list of graphics-related changes

• Add dedithering option & generalise shader passes (#4777)
• Add FMV video deinterlacer (#4689)
• Add forced borderless fullscreen mode & general window config settings rework (#4415)
• Add Jinc 2 de-dithering shader (#4684)
• Add shader preset support (#4590)
• Add simple built-in image viewer (#4632)
• Allow 3.5x and 4.5x integer scaling for the adaptive CRT shaders (#4418)
• Allow graceful failure if OpenGL context could not be created (#4228)
• Always use SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888 for the SDL texture renderer (#4587)
• Authentic CRT colour emulation, image adjustment settings, and wide gamut monitor support (#4618)
• Clean up image capturer (#4701)
• Clean up vertical bars fix FPU code (#4174)
• Cross-platform Voodoo cleanup (#4254)
• Enable bilinear filtering for the 3dfx Voodoo by default (#4250)
• Fall back if sRGB fails (#4589)
• Fix INT10_SetVideoMode() regression (#4182) [backport]
• Fix aspect ratio of 40-column text modes on VGA with shaders that force no pixel doubling (#4397)
• Fix auto integer scaling when falling back to the sharp shader (#4664)
• Fix closest video mode calculation in showpic command (#4638)
• Fix crash on Windows when starting in fullscreen mode (#4619)
• Fix crash when setting output = texture (#4577)
• Fix for setting the same shader twice in a row (#4610)
• Fix host refresh rate always returned as 60 (#4595)
• Fix OpenGL uniform errors/warnings when using a debug context (#4594)
• Fix presentation mode regressions (#4605)
• Fix segfault on exit for some Linux systems (#4829)
• Fix setting dedithering from the config & some logging fixes and improvements (#4836)
• Fix setting shader = crt-auto-machine causing a crash at startup (#4660)
• Fix tripping debug assert when starting with --startmapper and exiting the mapper (#4554)
• Fix two broken shaders (#4655)
• Fix VGA double scan regression (#4864)
• Fix VGA double scanning when setting a shader preset at startup (#4616)
• Fix VGA draw address calculation (#4062) [backport]
• Fix video output freezing 35 minutes, 47 seconds, 483 milliseconds, and 648 microseconds after startup (#4490)
• Fix wrong 640x200 mode ID in SHOWPIC.EXE (#4640)
• Further render and scaler cleanup & improvements (#4697)
• Image adjustment fixes & improvements (#4819)
• Implement in-memory shader caching in the OpenGL renderer (#4551)
• Improve window_size and window_position help text (#4704)
• Improve window not in foreground SDL workaround for macOS (#4700)
• Minor fixes to renderer init. Allows KMSDRM to failover to texture mode. (#4585)
• Put all custom shader pragmas in multi-line comment blocks (#4745)
• Remove fullscreen_mode=original config option (#4596)
• Remove max frame time check in frame presentation (#4499)
• Rendering and CGA composite cleanup (#4608)
• Reset OpenGL attributes before creating the mapper's renderer (#4628)
• SDL main cleanup, part 2 — OpenGL modernisation (some of it) (#4390)
• SDL main cleanup, part 3 — Refactor window & render backend management + misc fixes & improvements (#4449)
• Simplify ShaderManager API & fix various shader loading regressions and problems (#4735)
• Total frame presentation overhaul 😎 (#4438)
• Use OpenGL 3.3 Core Profile in the OpenGL render backend (#4591)
• Use std::atomic's wait over busy wait in Voodoo (#4220) [backport]
• VESA 2.0 mode list regression fix (#4245) [backport]
• VGA drawing and renderer cleanup (#4677)

Full PR list of sound-related changes

• soundcanvas_model setting description fix. (#4298)
• Add soundcanvas_rom_dir config setting and environment variable helpers (#4572)
• Add bounds checking to SoundBlaster's read_dma_16bit() and read_dma_8bit() (#4188)
• Add custom vcpkg overlay port for FluidSynth (#4267) [backport]
• Add denoiser to filter out residual OPL and Sound Canvas mk1 noise (#4230)
• Add seek-only mode for disk noise emulation, fix hdd noises missing i… (#4486)
• Add support for Microprose's 'The Entertainer' variant of the Innovation SSI-2001 (#4857)
• Added disk noise emulation and configurable IO throttling (#4325)
• Allow changing the current FluidSynth soundfont config and the MT-32 model on-the-fly (#3982)
• Always set SB per-frame callback for DAC (#4563)
• Auto-apply optimal FluidSynth chorus & reverb settings for common SoundFonts (#4817)
• CDROM Audio: Do not continue to the next track if less than 2 seconds remains (#4487)
• Defer SDL audio subsystem init until mixer init (#4665)
• Delete the GUS tick handler in the destructor (#4183) [backport]
• Don't let the mixer request frames for SoundBlaster in fast-forward mode (#4202)
• Don't save MP3 seek table to fastseek.lut file (#4311)
• Dynamically load fluidsynth library at runtime (#4222)
• Fix clang tautological compare warning and related undefined behaviour in stb_vorbis (#4571)
• Fix crash if opening the soundfont_dir directory failed (#4106)
• Fix deadlock on exit while LPT DAC is running (#4063)
• Fix edge case where CDROM mixer hangs at the end of a track (#4302)
• Fix GUS hang in KQ4 enhanced (#4787)
• Fix GUS Mix Control Register not getting reset to the correct value (#4271)
• Fix GUS resampling regression & emulate the GUS' output more authentically (#4219) [backport]
• Fix HDD disk noises being played for floppies v2 (#4661)
• Fix incorrect check cast in IMFC (#4226)
• Fix init order & no sound regression (#4663)
• Fix recovery from fast-forward when the Sound Canvas can't keep up (#4210)
• Fix SoundBlaster DMA regression (#4084)
• Fix SoundBlaster Notify Unlock (#4169)
• Fixed reversed audio channels for SoundBlaster Pro (#4412)
• FluidSynth configuration improvements (#4047)
• Generic Sound Canvas emulation support (#4090)
• Improve default crossfeed setting behaviour (#4223) [backport]
• Improve GUS config setting descriptions (#4252)
• Improvements to the resource loader (#4437)
• Increase the number of audio frames generated by SoundBlaster when the mixer is underflowing (#4175)
• Inject Nuked-SC55-CLAP plugin into the release packages (#4425)
• Lock the mixer thread inside disknoise_destroy() (#4373)
• Lower default master volume (#4105) [backport]
• Make mixer master gain volume atomic (#4403)
• Mute audio when the mapper is active (#4195) [backport]
• Only register disk noise callback if required (#4376)
• Paginate MIXER /LISTMIDI output & fix showing the active SoundFount (#4811)
• Re-enable portamento handling for FluidSynth (#4780)
• Reinstate FluidSynth as an internal dependency (#4550)
• Remove std::atomic from performance critical global variables (#4181) [backport]
• Restore deprecated mixer channel name aliases (#4400)
• Revert "Keep GUS running (and rendering) on IO port reads" (#4216) [backport]
• Simplify mididevice and midiconfig settings (#4040)
• Sort SoundFonts in MIXER /LISTMIDI output & fix current SF2 matching (#3981)
• Standardize the Sound Blaster against other audio devices (#3875)
• Tone down FluidSynth logging (#4569)
• Upgrade external vcpkg dependencies to v0.83.0-1 (#4348)
• Upgrade Nuked-SC55-CLAP to v0.8.0 (#4442)
• Upgrade the Nuked-SC55-CLAP plugin to v0.11.0 (#4748)

Full PR list of input-related changes

• Add configurable mouse mickey threshold (#4681)
• Add keyboard grabbing support (#4338)
• Add ManyMouse support to CMake scripts (#4344)
• Add mouse hack for 'Joan of Arc: Siege & the Sword' game on Hercules machine (#4699)
• Adjust VMware interface behavior to match VMware Workstation Player (#4564)
• Builtin DOS mouse driver improvements (#4578)
• Document Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard scancodes (#4187)
• DOS mouse driver minor fixes/cleanups (#4356)
• Enable hotplugging joysticks (#4122)
• Enable hotplugging joysticks (2nd attempt) (#4146)
• Enforce no-TSR mouse mode on Tandy/PCJr machines (#4698)
• Ensure physical host buttons only perform one bound event (#4079)
• Ensure the line feed follows carriage return when reading from the DOS console (#4009)
• Fix debugger keypresses not being registered on Windows (#4098)
• Fix false positive key check in Windows console read multitasking subroutine (#4717)
• Fix ManyMouse support in Windows builds (#4035) [backport]
• Fix mouse TSR writing to ROM (#4719)
• Fix new PVS Studio warning in mouseif_dos_driver.cpp (#4539)
• Immediately save user mapper changes to disk (#4124)
• Improve DOS builtin mouse driver configurability (#4284)
• Improve some mouse setting descriptions (#4206) [backport]
• Increase bind name display length in the mapper to avoid truncation (#4131)
• Initial clipboard sharing support (#4036)
• Keyboard layout / code page autodetection tweaks + macOS support (#4069)
• Keyboard layout autodetection fixes/improvements (#4082)
• Mouse code cleanup and serial mouse regression fix (#4706)
• Remove wrong assertion in the keyboard autodetection code (#4293)
• Revert "Ensure physical host buttons only perform one bound event" (#4129)
• Revert CRLF keyboard change (#4067)
• Revert Hotplug Support #4122,#4138,#4143 (#4145)
• Rework builtin DOS mouse driver for better guest Windows compatibility (#4381)
• Rework the VMware mouse emulation, support the official Windows 9x driver (#4555)
• Silence unknown function warnings for more OEM mouse driver extensions (#4722)
• Suppress redundant mapper initialization at startup (#4138)
• Synchronize the reported DOS mouse driver language with the translation (#4669)
• Unpause the emulator with a remapped pause key (#4851)
• Use 'reg_dx' for the mouse double speed threshold, as stated in the Microsoft specification (#4838)
• Use floating point inputs in the mouse emulation code (SDL 3 preparation) (#4065)
• Warn about MOUSE.COM options which are not going to be implemented (#4544)

Full PR list of DOS integration related changes

• Abort mounting drives if parameters are invalid (#4806)
• Add a file_locking config option (#4024) [backport]
• Add recognition of multiple floppy extensions and recognition as floppy images based on disk geometry (#4882)
• Automount CD images from drives/[x] folders (#4379)
• Automount floppy images from drives/a and drives/b folders (#4788)
• Cleanup AUTOEXEC.BAT regeneration (#4362)
• Correct EMS Set Handle Name to read from correct registers (#4496)
• Don't set host permissions for read-only directories on POSIX (#4283) [backport]
• Filesystem fixes (#4645)
• Fix AUTOEXEC.BAT being deleted on disk swap (#4360)
• Fix choice /t repeatedly pressing default key (#4716)
• Fix command line parser bug where an extension-less file prevents execution (#4185) [backport]
• Fix emulator becoming unresponsive if the user exits the app while inside the reboot handler (#4274) [backport]
• Fix file timestamp conversion on Windows (#4339)
• Fix images sometimes not found on DOS filesystem (#4797)
• Fix reporting EMS size if large 'memsize' is configured (#4752)
• Implement auto config option for file_locking (#4721)
• Implement MDS/MDF CDROM images (#4538)
• Implement new MAKEIMG command (#4678)
• Improve MODE command compatibility (#4668)
• Improve mount message for multiple images (#4759)
• Introduce notifications subsystem (#4351)
• Minor DOS command improvements (#4423)
• New CPI (DOS screen font) loader (#4154)
• On Windows, clear the read-only attribute before removing a directory. (#4297) [backport]
• Remove early-exit protection (#4450)
• Remove std_fs::path and explicitly convert to UTF-16 on Windows (#4764)
• Rename files on Windows before delete (#4152) [backport]
• Replace XCOPY.EXE with the one from DOSBox-X 2025.05.03 (#4476)
• Retain CD-ROM behaviour for directories mounted with -t cdrom (#4833)
• Rewrite & improve MEM.EXE command (#4749)
• Unify IMGMOUNT and MOUNT into a single command (#4683)
• Update bundled FreeDOS xcopy.exe to version 1.9a (#4285) [backport]
• Use MOUNT command when auto-mounting CD images (#4779)

Full PR list of localisation-related changes

• Add locale definitions for additional 25 countries (#4715)
• Allow language change at runtime (#4322)
• C++ library locale autodetection fixes (#4309)
• Change 'ux' keyboard layout autodetection priority to low (#4326)
• Clean up and fix translation scripts and documentation (#4480)
• Complete support for code page 59829 (#3998)
• Consider keyboard layout list random on GNOME (#4116)
• Do not promote code pages to modern replacements (#4528)
• Enforce using Unix EOL marks in the translation subsystem (#4654)
• Fix a few issues with the Dutch (NL) translation (#4653)
• Fix country detection on Windows (#4087)
• Fix failing assertion when keyboard layout autodetection fails, prefer ROM font for autodetected code pages (#4103)
• Fix for country '0' (International English) support (#4085)
• Fix for default config file created without using translations (#4630)
• Fix for translated '-list-countries' and similar messages (#4386)
• Fix missing translation error log (#4533)
• Fix translation for keyb cmd (#4266)
• Import FreeDOS ISO/KOI/MAC/WIN code page packages (#4121)
• Improve language (translation) autodetection (#4132)
• Keyboard layout autodetection priorities (#4107)
• Kill the transliteration/romanization rules with fire 🔥🔥🔥 (#4117)
• Locale detection improvements (#4597)
• Migrate to the gettext .po localisation format (#4511)
• Minor locale updates (#4607)
• Review auto-detection priorities for Italian keyboard layouts (#4130)
• Rework locale settings and autodetection (#3951)
• Rework translated messages handling (#4074)
• Simplify 'for' help message handling (#4349)
• Support both ISO 639 (language) and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (territory) in the translation file names (#4541)
• Translation fixes (#4840)
• Translation handling improvements (#4656)
• Unicode engine improvements (#4119)
• Update de.lng (#4502)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4827)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4798)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4732)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4646)
• Update Dutch (nl) translation (#4265)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4853)
• Update Italian (it) translation (#4821)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4488)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4312)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4235)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4125)
• Update Italian (it_IT) translation (#4808)
• Update Italian (it_IT) translation (#4625)
• Update Polish (pl) translation (#4237)
• Update Polish (pl) translation, English string improvements (#4136)
• Update Polish (pl) translation, minor English string fix (#4086) [backport]
• Updated French translation (#4830)
• Use English strings for important messages if their translation is not up to date (#4707)
• Use LANG variable as a fallback for LC_* on POSIX systems (#4072)
• Use untranslated keyboard layout name for logging (#4313)
• Windows activeCodePage and resource file build improvements (#4526)

Full PR list of documentation-related changes

• Add ANSI Markup Editor to the translation doco (#4736)
• Add Claude Code rules for C++ style, docs style, and commits (#4887)
• At last — user manual! 📚 📜 🤓 (#4822)
• Build-related documentation updates (#4367)
• Cleanup Linux build documentation, CMake is now the default build method (#4454)
• Config setting description fixes (#4820)
• Config setting help text improvements & fixes (#4761)
• Convert PVS-Studio workflow to CMake & big build system cleanup (#4299)
• docs: Add Visual Studio troubleshooting tips (#4718)
• Fix 'expand_shell_variable' description (#4624)
• Fix 'lpf' acronym in help text messages (#4615)
• Fix and improve copyright year updater script & update copyright year (#4765)
• Fix broken anchor: documenetation -> documentation in DOCUMENTATION.md (#4859)
• Fix outdated links in the pull request template (#4676)
• Implement documentation versioning (#4854)
• Improve setting help formatting (#4606)
• Improve unit testing instructions (#4659)
• Minor bundled libraries and legal notes cleanup (#4673)
• Spring cleaning, part 2 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4332)
• The GUIDE and MANUAL commands open a versioned URL now (#4849)
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#4459)
• Update contribution guidelines (#4327)
• Update Linux build instructions (#4652)
• Update macOS build instructions (#4378)
• Update mapper.cpp - correct comment about ABNT1 (#4482)
• Update Windows build instructions (#4422)

Full PR list of project maintenance related changes

• _with_debugger amended to executable name when OPT_DEBUGGER ON. (#4803)
• Adapt the Linux app_id to the Flatpak requirements (#4288) [backport]
• Add and fix additional warnings to the CMake build (#4492)
• Add ccache support to CMake build (#4744)
• Add CMake tests (#4407)
• Add cmake_test_discovery* files to gitignore (#4621)
• Add compile commits script for CMake (#4335)
• Add FROM_HASH option to the compile commits script (#4408)
• Add initial Linux CMake CI workflow (#4291)
• Add macOS CMake + vcpkg release build workflow (#4170)
• Add more metadata to the macOS executable for better observabilty (#4687)
• Add release management script & make release notes draft public (#4773)
• Add release notes differ script (#4845)
• Add sanitizer options to CMake build system, for Linux and macOS (#4401)
• Add several missing checks to the CMake build system + other fixes (#4396)
• Add Windows presets for CMake (#4184)
• Address PVS warnings (#4783)
• Allow graceful shutdown on SIGTERM (#4841)
• Build system fixes & improvements (#4868)
• Build system improvements, including Linux CMake install rules (#4435)
• build: Add meson build files for REST API. (#4771)
• Bump vcpkg baseline (#4747)
• Bump vcpkg baseline (#4270)
• Bump vcpkg baseline & update FluidSynth to 2.4.5 (#4295)
• ci: Bump Windows runner to VS2026 (#4757)
• Clean up config handling code (#4570)
• Cleanup some code related to machine types (#4414)
• Cleanup the resources directory (#4479)
• Define HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE in CMake (#4741)
• Disable narrowing & conversion warnings in the CMake build and reinstate macOS CI build warning checks (#4290)
• Dynamically load Slirp library at runtime (#4330)
• Enable additional warnings for Clang and GCC 13+ (#4647)
• Enable more GCC/clang compiler warnings (#4561)
• Exclude debugger-related files from non-debugger builds (#4712)
• Fix building the Windows installer by dropping Icelandic localisation (#4536)
• Fix building with Meson (#4353)
• Fix crash when using deprecated settings in the config (#4430)
• Fix Git hash injection in CI and local builds (#4316)
• Fix issues found using sanitizer (#4720)
• Fix Meson build (#4477)
• Fix Meson build, broken after directserial removal (#4649)
• Fix missing warnings in CMake (#4641)
• Fix missing XML tag in Visual Studio solution file (#4092)
• Fix non UTF-8 characters in ManyMouse library (#4648)
• Fix platform specific parameters for ppc64le (#3996)
• Fix PVS-Studio warnings (#4686)
• Fix release notes preview & Windows installer package (#4801)
• Fix running unit tests locally on macOS (#4424)
• Fix several compiler warnings (#4392)
• Fix several SonarCube warnings (#4420)
• Fix some warnings in Windows CDROM code as shown by MSYS2 (#4115)
• Fix vcpkg compilation on Linux for newer compilers (#4828)
• Fix win32 link errors/omissions involving MIDI and locale (#4088)
• Fix writing entire autoexec description to config file. Refactor Config::WriteConfig() (#4804)
• Fixes for ~130 SonarCloud reported issues (#4674)
• Fixes for ~220 SonarCloud reported issues (#4671)
• Fixes for ~30 SonarCloud reported issues, ~15 rules cleaned up (#4726)
• Improve GCC 15.x support (#4518)
• Improve handling config setting updates & module re-initialisations (#4516)
• Improve IMGMOUNT backward compatibility mechanism (#4832)
• Improve our GitHub issue templates (#4166)
• Improve platform builds workflow (#4000)
• Improve PVS-Studio workflow (#4194)
• Improve the handling of invalid integer config settings (#4666)
• Improve the internal Unicode engine (#4521)
• Improve Windows portable ZIP repackager script (#4873)
• Initial Linux support in CMake files (#4186)
• Major project organisation improvements (#4451)
• Make CFileInfo's destructor non-virtual (#4739)
• Make unit test execution more robust on macOS & CI (#4746)
• Migrate SDL_net to standalone asio (#4679)
• Minor Windows CMake QoL improvements (#4323)
• Move plugins dir to the root in the Linux & Windows packages (#4432)
• Normalise build workflow names & deprecate non-CMake Windows and macOS builds (#4278)
• Only delete the build dir for the selected CMake preset in compile-commits.sh (#4355)
• Only show warnings and errors in the build output on macOS (#4399)
• Optimize FPU code to set flags (#4651)
• Organise files (part 2) (#4513)
• Partial macOS and Windows compilation output cleanup (#4398)
• Print VCPKG error log on workflow failure (#4006)
• Prune all code for unsupported platforms (#4796)
• PVS Studio warning fixes (#4363)
• Recommend and list cmake presets (#4863)
• Remove ModuleBase (#4556)
• Remove Coverity static analysis (#4171) [backport]
• Remove FluidSynth vcpkg port (#4347)
• Remove function pointer for DOSBOX_Restart (#4558)
• Remove GHC filesystem library (#4754)
• Remove KDevelop files (#4404)
• Remove MSVC project files and make the CMake the only build method on Windows (#4342)
• Remove references to LGTM and update a few CI related links (#4172)
• Remove reinterpret_cast for accessing SDL Events (#4143)
• Remove s390x and ppc64le platform builds & simplify workflow (#4192)
• Remove Tracy (#4634)
• Remove Wine support from DOS to host filesystem code (#4753)
• Replace #if WIN32 with #ifdef WIN32 (#4191)
• Replace non-ASCII copyright symbol in winres.rc (#4345)
• Revert object pool stuff (#4111)
• Run unit tests in parallel on CI (#4874)
• SDL main cleanup, part 1 (#4384)
• SDL main cleanup, part 4 — Separate OpenGL and SDL rendering backends & a cornucopia of other improvements (#4542)
• Set CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS by default (#4209)
• Show stack trace symbols in Loguru dump (#4467)
• Simplify build options & remove serial passthrough (#4644)
• Spring cleaning, part 1 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4328)
• Spring cleaning, part 3 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4464)
• Statically link Windows exe & system deps support fixes (#4867)
• Sync with SVN r4485-r4494 (#4710)
• Sync/update Visual Studio filters (#4095)
• Update and always use the vcpkg baseline in CI (#4012)
• Update macOS notarize script (#4858)
• Upgrade to C++23 and fix compatibility issues (#4891)
• Use CMake to control macOS minimum version (#4692)
• Use short SPDX copyright headers (#4389)
• Warn about implicit fall-throughs in switch/case blocks (#4685)
• Webserver security hardening (#4772)
• Website release notes draft generation (#4818)

Full PR list of miscellaneous enhancements

• Add macOS .dosbox package support for double-click launching (#4566)
• Add REST HTTP API to expose the DOS memory for game modding & tools (#4730)
• Allow switching between legacy and modern cycles settings (#4781)
• API: Add more control over allocation strategy (#4776)
• Change display names of bool conf settings to 'on' and 'off' (#4248)
• Config setting help shortcut (#4247)
• Fixes for "toggle" config setting values (#4727)
• HTTP API improvements (#4847)
• Improve FPU emulation on non-x86 platforms (#4534)
• Improve the formatting of the written config file (#4048) [backport]
• Let unchangeable settings be queued and used on restart (#4055) [backport]
• Mapper layout fixes (#4600)
• Platforms builds workflow - add RISC-V, update to Debian 12 (#4025)
• Use emulated HLT to lower the host CPU usage in some cases (#4535)
• User manual related fixes (#4843)

Full PR list of miscellaneous fixes

• Always raise the window after startup on macOS (SDL workaround) (#4657)
• Destroy the renderer in GFX_Quit() (#4580)
• Display the correct real or protected mode cycles value in the title bar (#4221) [backport]
• Do not hard exit when encountering unimplemented PIC functions (#4225) [backport]
• Eliminate the internal InstantLaunch verbosity level (#4054) [backport]
• Fix all the unsafe 'sscanf' usage detected by CodeQL (#4670)
• Fix configuration setting case sensitivity regression (#4057) [backport]
• Fix double free in TCPClientSocket destructor (#4114)
• Fix handling of LOCK combined with other prefixes (#4775)
• Fix icache flush incorrectly tied to W^X policy (#4792)
• Fix Output label in debugger (#4723)
• Fix setting queued settings on reboot sometimes failing on Windows (#4782)
• Fix support for space in the directory name argument (#4150) [backport]
• Fixed debugger command IV truncating addresses to 16-bit (issue #4515) (#4800)
• Handle uppercase "-V" argument for version (#4690)
• Improve disk noise and disk speed settings log output (#4880)
• Make CALLBACK_Idle() loops more robust (#4629)
• Make restart_dosbox() go through the normal shutdown routine (#4368) [backport]
• Small improvements to the web server (#4871)
• Unhardcode the layout of debugger windows (#4691)
• Unit tests compilation fix (#4329)
• Use new GH ARM64 runners and remove debian-cross docker from CI (#4158)

Full PR list of other changes

• Add HTML release notes to build artifacts (#4774)
• Bump external DOSBox Staging deps version (#4760)
• Bump macOS runner to macOS-13 (#4038) [backport]
• Change default webserver port from 8080 to 8086 (#4881)
• Check HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME in CMake (#4393)
• ci: Fix getting the current version with get-version.sh (#4475)
• ci: Fix PVS failure due to output report change (#4762)
• Drop the Debian package & platform build CI actions (#4639)
• Fix Frontier: First Encounters crash on non-x86 platforms (#4892)
• Fix release package name generation on macOS (#4510)
• Fix reporting of failed CI builds on Linux and macOS (#4354)
• Fix typos Nix0S to NixOS (#4017)
• Fix Windows + Ninja compilation error (#4470)
• Library upgrades (#4609)
• Lower PVS Studio (and compilation) warning limits (#4068)
• Make Windows CI build errors visible (#4382)
• meson: Fix a bad relative resource path on macOS (#4675)
• Reintroduce vcpkg binary caching (#4421)
• Remove set -e from install-icons.sh (#4405)
• Replace infinity with max float in prop parser (#4234)
• Restore Debian 11 dependency file (#4308)
• Restrict usage of warning flags only with compatible compilers (#4709)
• Revert "Normalise build workflow names & deprecate non-CMake Windows and macOS builds" (#4286)
• Set 'actions/cache' to 'v4' (#4153) [backport]
• Update debian cross docker images and CI to debian 12 (#3950)
• Update French translation strings and typo fixes (#4875)
• Update PVS-Studio workflow for the latest version (#4834)
• Update README.md (#4410)
• Upgrade download-artifact action manually (#4633)
• Use CMake to build the Windows release on CI (#4331)
• Use personal access token for the release drafter (#4319)

Commit authors

0.83.0-RC1 release notes: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.83.0-rc1/

[!WARNING] These are the automatically generated release notes of the latest development snapshot builds! This is not a stable release; things might blow up! 💣 🔥 💀

You can download the latest development builds from here: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/development-builds/

Full PR list of game compatibility improvements

• Add configurable mouse mickey threshold (#4681)
• Add mouse hack for 'Joan of Arc: Siege & the Sword' game on Hercules machine (#4699)
• CDROM Audio: Do not continue to the next track if less than 2 seconds remains (#4487)
• Do not hard exit when encountering unimplemented PIC functions (#4225) [backport]
• Fix INT10_SetVideoMode() regression (#4182) [backport]
• Fix aspect ratio of 40-column text modes on VGA with shaders that force no pixel doubling (#4397)
• Fix command line parser bug where an extension-less file prevents execution (#4185) [backport]
• Fix edge case where CDROM mixer hangs at the end of a track (#4302)
• Fix GUS hang in KQ4 enhanced (#4787)
• Fix ManyMouse support in Windows builds (#4035) [backport]
• Implement auto config option for file_locking (#4721)
• Improve DOS builtin mouse driver configurability (#4284)
• Sync with SVN r4485-r4494 (#4710)
• VESA 2.0 mode list regression fix (#4245) [backport]

Full PR list of graphics-related changes

• Add dedithering option & generalise shader passes (#4777)
• Add FMV video deinterlacer (#4689)
• Add forced borderless fullscreen mode & general window config settings rework (#4415)
• Add Jinc 2 de-dithering shader (#4684)
• Add shader preset support (#4590)
• Add simple built-in image viewer (#4632)
• Allow 3.5x and 4.5x integer scaling for the adaptive CRT shaders (#4418)
• Allow graceful failure if OpenGL context could not be created (#4228)
• Always use SDL_PIXELFORMAT_ARGB8888 for the SDL texture renderer (#4587)
• Authentic CRT colour emulation, image adjustment settings, and wide gamut monitor support (#4618)
• Clean up image capturer (#4701)
• Clean up vertical bars fix FPU code (#4174)
• Cross-platform Voodoo cleanup (#4254)
• Enable bilinear filtering for the 3dfx Voodoo by default (#4250)
• Fall back if sRGB fails (#4589)
• Fix INT10_SetVideoMode() regression (#4182) [backport]
• Fix aspect ratio of 40-column text modes on VGA with shaders that force no pixel doubling (#4397)
• Fix auto integer scaling when falling back to the sharp shader (#4664)
• Fix closest video mode calculation in showpic command (#4638)
• Fix crash on Windows when starting in fullscreen mode (#4619)
• Fix crash when setting output = texture (#4577)
• Fix for setting the same shader twice in a row (#4610)
• Fix host refresh rate always returned as 60 (#4595)
• Fix OpenGL uniform errors/warnings when using a debug context (#4594)
• Fix presentation mode regressions (#4605)
• Fix segfault on exit for some Linux systems (#4829)
• Fix setting dedithering from the config & some logging fixes and improvements (#4836)
• Fix setting shader = crt-auto-machine causing a crash at startup (#4660)
• Fix tripping debug assert when starting with --startmapper and exiting the mapper (#4554)
• Fix two broken shaders (#4655)
• Fix VGA double scan regression (#4864)
• Fix VGA double scanning when setting a shader preset at startup (#4616)
• Fix VGA draw address calculation (#4062) [backport]
• Fix video output freezing 35 minutes, 47 seconds, 483 milliseconds, and 648 microseconds after startup (#4490)
• Fix wrong 640x200 mode ID in SHOWPIC.EXE (#4640)
• Further render and scaler cleanup & improvements (#4697)
• Image adjustment fixes & improvements (#4819)
• Implement in-memory shader caching in the OpenGL renderer (#4551)
• Improve window_size and window_position help text (#4704)
• Improve window not in foreground SDL workaround for macOS (#4700)
• Minor fixes to renderer init. Allows KMSDRM to failover to texture mode. (#4585)
• Put all custom shader pragmas in multi-line comment blocks (#4745)
• Remove fullscreen_mode=original config option (#4596)
• Remove max frame time check in frame presentation (#4499)
• Rendering and CGA composite cleanup (#4608)
• Reset OpenGL attributes before creating the mapper's renderer (#4628)
• SDL main cleanup, part 2 — OpenGL modernisation (some of it) (#4390)
• SDL main cleanup, part 3 — Refactor window & render backend management + misc fixes & improvements (#4449)
• Simplify ShaderManager API & fix various shader loading regressions and problems (#4735)
• Total frame presentation overhaul 😎 (#4438)
• Use OpenGL 3.3 Core Profile in the OpenGL render backend (#4591)
• Use std::atomic's wait over busy wait in Voodoo (#4220) [backport]
• VESA 2.0 mode list regression fix (#4245) [backport]
• VGA drawing and renderer cleanup (#4677)

Full PR list of sound-related changes

• soundcanvas_model setting description fix. (#4298)
• Add soundcanvas_rom_dir config setting and environment variable helpers (#4572)
• Add bounds checking to SoundBlaster's read_dma_16bit() and read_dma_8bit() (#4188)
• Add custom vcpkg overlay port for FluidSynth (#4267) [backport]
• Add denoiser to filter out residual OPL and Sound Canvas mk1 noise (#4230)
• Add seek-only mode for disk noise emulation, fix hdd noises missing i… (#4486)
• Add support for Microprose's 'The Entertainer' variant of the Innovation SSI-2001 (#4857)
• Added disk noise emulation and configurable IO throttling (#4325)
• Allow changing the current FluidSynth soundfont config and the MT-32 model on-the-fly (#3982)
• Always set SB per-frame callback for DAC (#4563)
• Auto-apply optimal FluidSynth chorus & reverb settings for common SoundFonts (#4817)
• CDROM Audio: Do not continue to the next track if less than 2 seconds remains (#4487)
• Defer SDL audio subsystem init until mixer init (#4665)
• Delete the GUS tick handler in the destructor (#4183) [backport]
• Don't let the mixer request frames for SoundBlaster in fast-forward mode (#4202)
• Don't save MP3 seek table to fastseek.lut file (#4311)
• Dynamically load fluidsynth library at runtime (#4222)
• Fix clang tautological compare warning and related undefined behaviour in stb_vorbis (#4571)
• Fix crash if opening the soundfont_dir directory failed (#4106)
• Fix deadlock on exit while LPT DAC is running (#4063)
• Fix edge case where CDROM mixer hangs at the end of a track (#4302)
• Fix GUS hang in KQ4 enhanced (#4787)
• Fix GUS Mix Control Register not getting reset to the correct value (#4271)
• Fix GUS resampling regression & emulate the GUS' output more authentically (#4219) [backport]
• Fix HDD disk noises being played for floppies v2 (#4661)
• Fix incorrect check cast in IMFC (#4226)
• Fix init order & no sound regression (#4663)
• Fix recovery from fast-forward when the Sound Canvas can't keep up (#4210)
• Fix SoundBlaster DMA regression (#4084)
• Fix SoundBlaster Notify Unlock (#4169)
• Fixed reversed audio channels for SoundBlaster Pro (#4412)
• FluidSynth configuration improvements (#4047)
• Generic Sound Canvas emulation support (#4090)
• Improve default crossfeed setting behaviour (#4223) [backport]
• Improve GUS config setting descriptions (#4252)
• Improvements to the resource loader (#4437)
• Increase the number of audio frames generated by SoundBlaster when the mixer is underflowing (#4175)
• Inject Nuked-SC55-CLAP plugin into the release packages (#4425)
• Lock the mixer thread inside disknoise_destroy() (#4373)
• Lower default master volume (#4105) [backport]
• Make mixer master gain volume atomic (#4403)
• Mute audio when the mapper is active (#4195) [backport]
• Only register disk noise callback if required (#4376)
• Paginate MIXER /LISTMIDI output & fix showing the active SoundFount (#4811)
• Re-enable portamento handling for FluidSynth (#4780)
• Reinstate FluidSynth as an internal dependency (#4550)
• Remove std::atomic from performance critical global variables (#4181) [backport]
• Restore deprecated mixer channel name aliases (#4400)
• Revert "Keep GUS running (and rendering) on IO port reads" (#4216) [backport]
• Simplify mididevice and midiconfig settings (#4040)
• Sort SoundFonts in MIXER /LISTMIDI output & fix current SF2 matching (#3981)
• Standardize the Sound Blaster against other audio devices (#3875)
• Tone down FluidSynth logging (#4569)
• Upgrade external vcpkg dependencies to v0.83.0-1 (#4348)
• Upgrade Nuked-SC55-CLAP to v0.8.0 (#4442)
• Upgrade the Nuked-SC55-CLAP plugin to v0.11.0 (#4748)

Full PR list of input-related changes

• Add configurable mouse mickey threshold (#4681)
• Add keyboard grabbing support (#4338)
• Add ManyMouse support to CMake scripts (#4344)
• Add mouse hack for 'Joan of Arc: Siege & the Sword' game on Hercules machine (#4699)
• Adjust VMware interface behavior to match VMware Workstation Player (#4564)
• Builtin DOS mouse driver improvements (#4578)
• Document Microsoft Digital Media Pro Keyboard scancodes (#4187)
• DOS mouse driver minor fixes/cleanups (#4356)
• Enable hotplugging joysticks (#4122)
• Enable hotplugging joysticks (2nd attempt) (#4146)
• Enforce no-TSR mouse mode on Tandy/PCJr machines (#4698)
• Ensure physical host buttons only perform one bound event (#4079)
• Ensure the line feed follows carriage return when reading from the DOS console (#4009)
• Fix debugger keypresses not being registered on Windows (#4098)
• Fix false positive key check in Windows console read multitasking subroutine (#4717)
• Fix ManyMouse support in Windows builds (#4035) [backport]
• Fix mouse TSR writing to ROM (#4719)
• Fix new PVS Studio warning in mouseif_dos_driver.cpp (#4539)
• Immediately save user mapper changes to disk (#4124)
• Improve DOS builtin mouse driver configurability (#4284)
• Improve some mouse setting descriptions (#4206) [backport]
• Increase bind name display length in the mapper to avoid truncation (#4131)
• Initial clipboard sharing support (#4036)
• Keyboard layout / code page autodetection tweaks + macOS support (#4069)
• Keyboard layout autodetection fixes/improvements (#4082)
• Mouse code cleanup and serial mouse regression fix (#4706)
• Remove wrong assertion in the keyboard autodetection code (#4293)
• Revert "Ensure physical host buttons only perform one bound event" (#4129)
• Revert CRLF keyboard change (#4067)
• Revert Hotplug Support #4122,#4138,#4143 (#4145)
• Rework builtin DOS mouse driver for better guest Windows compatibility (#4381)
• Rework the VMware mouse emulation, support the official Windows 9x driver (#4555)
• Silence unknown function warnings for more OEM mouse driver extensions (#4722)
• Suppress redundant mapper initialization at startup (#4138)
• Synchronize the reported DOS mouse driver language with the translation (#4669)
• Unpause the emulator with a remapped pause key (#4851)
• Use 'reg_dx' for the mouse double speed threshold, as stated in the Microsoft specification (#4838)
• Use floating point inputs in the mouse emulation code (SDL 3 preparation) (#4065)
• Warn about MOUSE.COM options which are not going to be implemented (#4544)

Full PR list of DOS integration related changes

• Abort mounting drives if parameters are invalid (#4806)
• Add a file_locking config option (#4024) [backport]
• Automount CD images from drives/[x] folders (#4379)
• Automount floppy images from drives/a and drives/b folders (#4788)
• Cleanup AUTOEXEC.BAT regeneration (#4362)
• Correct EMS Set Handle Name to read from correct registers (#4496)
• Don't set host permissions for read-only directories on POSIX (#4283) [backport]
• Filesystem fixes (#4645)
• Fix AUTOEXEC.BAT being deleted on disk swap (#4360)
• Fix choice /t repeatedly pressing default key (#4716)
• Fix command line parser bug where an extension-less file prevents execution (#4185) [backport]
• Fix emulator becoming unresponsive if the user exits the app while inside the reboot handler (#4274) [backport]
• Fix file timestamp conversion on Windows (#4339)
• Fix images sometimes not found on DOS filesystem (#4797)
• Fix reporting EMS size if large 'memsize' is configured (#4752)
• Implement auto config option for file_locking (#4721)
• Implement MDS/MDF CDROM images (#4538)
• Implement new MAKEIMG command (#4678)
• Improve MODE command compatibility (#4668)
• Improve mount message for multiple images (#4759)
• Introduce notifications subsystem (#4351)
• Minor DOS command improvements (#4423)
• New CPI (DOS screen font) loader (#4154)
• On Windows, clear the read-only attribute before removing a directory. (#4297) [backport]
• Remove early-exit protection (#4450)
• Remove std_fs::path and explicitly convert to UTF-16 on Windows (#4764)
• Rename files on Windows before delete (#4152) [backport]
• Replace XCOPY.EXE with the one from DOSBox-X 2025.05.03 (#4476)
• Retain CD-ROM behaviour for directories mounted with -t cdrom (#4833)
• Rewrite & improve MEM.EXE command (#4749)
• Unify IMGMOUNT and MOUNT into a single command (#4683)
• Update bundled FreeDOS xcopy.exe to version 1.9a (#4285) [backport]
• Use MOUNT command when auto-mounting CD images (#4779)

Full PR list of localisation-related changes

• Add locale definitions for additional 25 countries (#4715)
• Allow language change at runtime (#4322)
• C++ library locale autodetection fixes (#4309)
• Change 'ux' keyboard layout autodetection priority to low (#4326)
• Clean up and fix translation scripts and documentation (#4480)
• Complete support for code page 59829 (#3998)
• Consider keyboard layout list random on GNOME (#4116)
• Do not promote code pages to modern replacements (#4528)
• Enforce using Unix EOL marks in the translation subsystem (#4654)
• Fix a few issues with the Dutch (NL) translation (#4653)
• Fix country detection on Windows (#4087)
• Fix failing assertion when keyboard layout autodetection fails, prefer ROM font for autodetected code pages (#4103)
• Fix for country '0' (International English) support (#4085)
• Fix for default config file created without using translations (#4630)
• Fix for translated '-list-countries' and similar messages (#4386)
• Fix missing translation error log (#4533)
• Fix translation for keyb cmd (#4266)
• Import FreeDOS ISO/KOI/MAC/WIN code page packages (#4121)
• Improve language (translation) autodetection (#4132)
• Keyboard layout autodetection priorities (#4107)
• Kill the transliteration/romanization rules with fire 🔥🔥🔥 (#4117)
• Locale detection improvements (#4597)
• Migrate to the gettext .po localisation format (#4511)
• Minor locale updates (#4607)
• Review auto-detection priorities for Italian keyboard layouts (#4130)
• Rework locale settings and autodetection (#3951)
• Rework translated messages handling (#4074)
• Simplify 'for' help message handling (#4349)
• Support both ISO 639 (language) and ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (territory) in the translation file names (#4541)
• Translation fixes (#4840)
• Translation handling improvements (#4656)
• Unicode engine improvements (#4119)
• Update de.lng (#4502)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4827)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4798)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4732)
• Update Dutch (NL) translation (#4646)
• Update Dutch (nl) translation (#4265)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4853)
• Update Italian (it) translation (#4821)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4488)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4312)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4235)
• Update italian (it) translation (#4125)
• Update Italian (it_IT) translation (#4808)
• Update Italian (it_IT) translation (#4625)
• Update Polish (pl) translation (#4237)
• Update Polish (pl) translation, English string improvements (#4136)
• Update Polish (pl) translation, minor English string fix (#4086) [backport]
• Updated French translation (#4830)
• Use English strings for important messages if their translation is not up to date (#4707)
• Use LANG variable as a fallback for LC_* on POSIX systems (#4072)
• Use untranslated keyboard layout name for logging (#4313)
• Windows activeCodePage and resource file build improvements (#4526)

Full PR list of documentation-related changes

• Add ANSI Markup Editor to the translation doco (#4736)
• At last — user manual! 📚 📜 🤓 (#4822)
• Build-related documentation updates (#4367)
• Cleanup Linux build documentation, CMake is now the default build method (#4454)
• Config setting description fixes (#4820)
• Config setting help text improvements & fixes (#4761)
• Convert PVS-Studio workflow to CMake & big build system cleanup (#4299)
• docs: Add Visual Studio troubleshooting tips (#4718)
• Fix 'expand_shell_variable' description (#4624)
• Fix 'lpf' acronym in help text messages (#4615)
• Fix and improve copyright year updater script & update copyright year (#4765)
• Fix broken anchor: documenetation -> documentation in DOCUMENTATION.md (#4859)
• Fix outdated links in the pull request template (#4676)
• Implement documentation versioning (#4854)
• Improve setting help formatting (#4606)
• Improve unit testing instructions (#4659)
• Minor bundled libraries and legal notes cleanup (#4673)
• Spring cleaning, part 2 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4332)
• The GUIDE and MANUAL commands open a versioned URL now (#4849)
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md (#4459)
• Update contribution guidelines (#4327)
• Update Linux build instructions (#4652)
• Update macOS build instructions (#4378)
• Update mapper.cpp - correct comment about ABNT1 (#4482)
• Update Windows build instructions (#4422)

Full PR list of project maintenance related changes

• _with_debugger amended to executable name when OPT_DEBUGGER ON. (#4803)
• Adapt the Linux app_id to the Flatpak requirements (#4288) [backport]
• Add and fix additional warnings to the CMake build (#4492)
• Add ccache support to CMake build (#4744)
• Add CMake tests (#4407)
• Add cmake_test_discovery* files to gitignore (#4621)
• Add compile commits script for CMake (#4335)
• Add FROM_HASH option to the compile commits script (#4408)
• Add initial Linux CMake CI workflow (#4291)
• Add macOS CMake + vcpkg release build workflow (#4170)
• Add more metadata to the macOS executable for better observabilty (#4687)
• Add release management script & make release notes draft public (#4773)
• Add release notes differ script (#4845)
• Add sanitizer options to CMake build system, for Linux and macOS (#4401)
• Add several missing checks to the CMake build system + other fixes (#4396)
• Add Windows presets for CMake (#4184)
• Address PVS warnings (#4783)
• Allow graceful shutdown on SIGTERM (#4841)
• Build system improvements, including Linux CMake install rules (#4435)
• build: Add meson build files for REST API. (#4771)
• Bump vcpkg baseline (#4747)
• Bump vcpkg baseline (#4270)
• Bump vcpkg baseline & update FluidSynth to 2.4.5 (#4295)
• Clean up config handling code (#4570)
• Cleanup some code related to machine types (#4414)
• Cleanup the resources directory (#4479)
• Define HAVE_STRUCT_DIRENT_D_TYPE in CMake (#4741)
• Disable narrowing & conversion warnings in the CMake build and reinstate macOS CI build warning checks (#4290)
• Dynamically load Slirp library at runtime (#4330)
• Enable additional warnings for Clang and GCC 13+ (#4647)
• Enable more GCC/clang compiler warnings (#4561)
• Exclude debugger-related files from non-debugger builds (#4712)
• Fix building the Windows installer by dropping Icelandic localisation (#4536)
• Fix building with Meson (#4353)
• Fix crash when using deprecated settings in the config (#4430)
• Fix Git hash injection in CI and local builds (#4316)
• Fix issues found using sanitizer (#4720)
• Fix Meson build (#4477)
• Fix Meson build, broken after directserial removal (#4649)
• Fix missing warnings in CMake (#4641)
• Fix missing XML tag in Visual Studio solution file (#4092)
• Fix non UTF-8 characters in ManyMouse library (#4648)
• Fix platform specific parameters for ppc64le (#3996)
• Fix PVS-Studio warnings (#4686)
• Fix release notes preview & Windows installer package (#4801)
• Fix running unit tests locally on macOS (#4424)
• Fix several compiler warnings (#4392)
• Fix several SonarCube warnings (#4420)
• Fix some warnings in Windows CDROM code as shown by MSYS2 (#4115)
• Fix vcpkg compilation on Linux for newer compilers (#4828)
• Fix win32 link errors/omissions involving MIDI and locale (#4088)
• Fix writing entire autoexec description to config file. Refactor Config::WriteConfig() (#4804)
• Fixes for ~130 SonarCloud reported issues (#4674)
• Fixes for ~220 SonarCloud reported issues (#4671)
• Fixes for ~30 SonarCloud reported issues, ~15 rules cleaned up (#4726)
• Improve GCC 15.x support (#4518)
• Improve handling config setting updates & module re-initialisations (#4516)
• Improve IMGMOUNT backward compatibility mechanism (#4832)
• Improve our GitHub issue templates (#4166)
• Improve platform builds workflow (#4000)
• Improve PVS-Studio workflow (#4194)
• Improve the handling of invalid integer config settings (#4666)
• Improve the internal Unicode engine (#4521)
• Initial Linux support in CMake files (#4186)
• Major project organisation improvements (#4451)
• Make CFileInfo's destructor non-virtual (#4739)
• Make unit test execution more robust on macOS & CI (#4746)
• Migrate SDL_net to standalone asio (#4679)
• Minor Windows CMake QoL improvements (#4323)
• Move plugins dir to the root in the Linux & Windows packages (#4432)
• Normalise build workflow names & deprecate non-CMake Windows and macOS builds (#4278)
• Only delete the build dir for the selected CMake preset in compile-commits.sh (#4355)
• Only show warnings and errors in the build output on macOS (#4399)
• Optimize FPU code to set flags (#4651)
• Organise files (part 2) (#4513)
• Partial macOS and Windows compilation output cleanup (#4398)
• Print VCPKG error log on workflow failure (#4006)
• Prune all code for unsupported platforms (#4796)
• PVS Studio warning fixes (#4363)
• Recommend and list cmake presets (#4863)
• Remove ModuleBase (#4556)
• Remove Coverity static analysis (#4171) [backport]
• Remove FluidSynth vcpkg port (#4347)
• Remove function pointer for DOSBOX_Restart (#4558)
• Remove GHC filesystem library (#4754)
• Remove KDevelop files (#4404)
• Remove MSVC project files and make the CMake the only build method on Windows (#4342)
• Remove references to LGTM and update a few CI related links (#4172)
• Remove reinterpret_cast for accessing SDL Events (#4143)
• Remove s390x and ppc64le platform builds & simplify workflow (#4192)
• Remove Tracy (#4634)
• Remove Wine support from DOS to host filesystem code (#4753)
• Replace #if WIN32 with #ifdef WIN32 (#4191)
• Replace non-ASCII copyright symbol in winres.rc (#4345)
• Revert object pool stuff (#4111)
• SDL main cleanup, part 1 (#4384)
• SDL main cleanup, part 4 — Separate OpenGL and SDL rendering backends & a cornucopia of other improvements (#4542)
• Set CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS by default (#4209)
• Show stack trace symbols in Loguru dump (#4467)
• Simplify build options & remove serial passthrough (#4644)
• Spring cleaning, part 1 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4328)
• Spring cleaning, part 3 🌷 🧹 🗑️ 🔥 (#4464)
• Sync with SVN r4485-r4494 (#4710)
• Sync/update Visual Studio filters (#4095)
• Update and always use the vcpkg baseline in CI (#4012)
• Update macOS notarize script (#4858)
• Use CMake to control macOS minimum version (#4692)
• Use short SPDX copyright headers (#4389)
• Warn about implicit fall-throughs in switch/case blocks (#4685)
• Webserver security hardening (#4772)
• Website release notes draft generation (#4818)

Full PR list of miscellaneous enhancements

• Add macOS .dosbox package support for double-click launching (#4566)
• Add REST HTTP API to expose the DOS memory for game modding & tools (#4730)
• Allow switching between legacy and modern cycles settings (#4781)
• API: Add more control over allocation strategy (#4776)
• Change display names of bool conf settings to 'on' and 'off' (#4248)
• Config setting help shortcut (#4247)
• Fixes for "toggle" config setting values (#4727)
• HTTP API improvements (#4847)
• Improve FPU emulation on non-x86 platforms (#4534)
• Improve the formatting of the written config file (#4048) [backport]
• Let unchangeable settings be queued and used on restart (#4055) [backport]
• Mapper layout fixes (#4600)
• Platforms builds workflow - add RISC-V, update to Debian 12 (#4025)
• Use emulated HLT to lower the host CPU usage in some cases (#4535)
• User manual related fixes (#4843)

Full PR list of miscellaneous fixes

• Always raise the window after startup on macOS (SDL workaround) (#4657)
• Destroy the renderer in GFX_Quit() (#4580)
• Display the correct real or protected mode cycles value in the title bar (#4221) [backport]
• Do not hard exit when encountering unimplemented PIC functions (#4225) [backport]
• Eliminate the internal InstantLaunch verbosity level (#4054) [backport]
• Fix all the unsafe 'sscanf' usage detected by CodeQL (#4670)
• Fix configuration setting case sensitivity regression (#4057) [backport]
• Fix double free in TCPClientSocket destructor (#4114)
• Fix handling of LOCK combined with other prefixes (#4775)
• Fix icache flush incorrectly tied to W^X policy (#4792)
• Fix Output label in debugger (#4723)
• Fix setting queued settings on reboot sometimes failing on Windows (#4782)
• Fix support for space in the directory name argument (#4150) [backport]
• Fixed debugger command IV truncating addresses to 16-bit (issue #4515) (#4800)
• Handle uppercase "-V" argument for version (#4690)
• Make CALLBACK_Idle() loops more robust (#4629)
• Make restart_dosbox() go through the normal shutdown routine (#4368) [backport]
• Small improvements to the web server (#4871)
• Unhardcode the layout of debugger windows (#4691)
• Unit tests compilation fix (#4329)
• Use new GH ARM64 runners and remove debian-cross docker from CI (#4158)

Full PR list of other changes

• Add HTML release notes to build artifacts (#4774)
• Bump external DOSBox Staging deps version (#4760)
• Bump macOS runner to macOS-13 (#4038) [backport]
• Check HAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME in CMake (#4393)
• ci: Fix getting the current version with get-version.sh (#4475)
• ci: Fix PVS failure due to output report change (#4762)
• Drop the Debian package & platform build CI actions (#4639)
• Fix release package name generation on macOS (#4510)
• Fix reporting of failed CI builds on Linux and macOS (#4354)
• Fix typos Nix0S to NixOS (#4017)
• Fix Windows + Ninja compilation error (#4470)
• Library upgrades (#4609)
• Lower PVS Studio (and compilation) warning limits (#4068)
• Make Windows CI build errors visible (#4382)
• meson: Fix a bad relative resource path on macOS (#4675)
• Reintroduce vcpkg binary caching (#4421)
• Remove set -e from install-icons.sh (#4405)
• Replace infinity with max float in prop parser (#4234)
• Restore Debian 11 dependency file (#4308)
• Restrict usage of warning flags only with compatible compilers (#4709)
• Revert "Normalise build workflow names & deprecate non-CMake Windows and macOS builds" (#4286)
• Set 'actions/cache' to 'v4' (#4153) [backport]
• Update debian cross docker images and CI to debian 12 (#3950)
• Update PVS-Studio workflow for the latest version (#4834)
• Update README.md (#4410)
• Upgrade download-artifact action manually (#4633)
• Use CMake to build the Windows release on CI (#4331)
• Use personal access token for the release drafter (#4319)

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0.82.2 release notes: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.82.2/

0.82.1 release notes: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.82.1/

0.82.0 release notes: https://www.dosbox-staging.org/releases/release-notes/0.82.0/

0.81.2 release notes: https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.2/

0.81.1 release notes: https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.1/

0.81.0 release notes: https://dosbox-staging.github.io/releases/release-notes/0.81.0/