DOSBox-Staging Git Update (December 28, 2025)

The DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/28) update focuses on modernizing the DOSBox project by implementing current development practices and addressing various issues. Changelog highlights include the addition of unit tests for translation newline adjustments, improved compatibility with the MODE command, and updates to config setting messages. Enhancements also involve refining function styles and naming conventions, strictly parsing integer config values, and reverting out-of-range integer settings to defaults. The repository aims to enhance support for contemporary systems and facilitate upstream patch submissions. For download, access DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/28) x64.

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DOSBox-Staging Git (2025/12/28) has been compiled. This repository aims to enhance the DOSBox project by adopting modern development practices and tools, resolving existing issues, introducing features that align with contemporary systems, and contributing patches upstream.

DOSBox-Staging Git Changelog:
* Introduced unit tests for translation newline adjustments
* Automatically adjust translated messages when the English strings differ only by leading/trailing newlines
* Identify leftover helper lines in translated messages
* style: Rearranged functions
* Enhanced `MODE` command compatibility
* style: Reformatted `mousectl.cpp|h`
* Converted invalid & deprecated config setting messages to multiline
* Trigger error for integer config settings that cannot be parsed properly
* Updated warning message key for invalid integer range config settings
* Enhanced warning for invalid integer range config settings
* Strictly parse integer config setting values
* Renamed `HandleInputline()` to `HandleInputLine()`
* Simplified `SectionProp::HandleInputline()`
* Conducted a mass rename of `_value` to `new_value` in `setup.cpp|h`
* Added comments
* Cleaned up `PropInt::SetValue()`
* Streamlined `PropInt::IsValidValue()`
* Restored integer config settings to defaults for out-of-range values
* Improved `PropInt::ValidateValue()`