DOSBox-Staging Git Update (February 7, 2026)

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/07) aims to modernize the DOSBox project through current development practices. Key updates include improvements in build robustness, enhanced mount help text, proper wildcard handling, and resolution of naming confusion and PVS warnings. Notable features include support for bootable images with drive letters, a unified mount command, and floppy disk image formats. Additionally, it fixes various log issues and optimizes memory management. The update also incorporates video data fixes and enhances testing mechanisms with ccache support in the CMake build. Overall, these changes aim to better adapt DOSBox for contemporary systems.

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DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/02/07) has been compiled. This repository aims to revitalize the DOSBox project by utilizing modern development practices and tools, resolving bugs, enhancing features to support contemporary systems, and contributing patches upstream.

DOSBox-Staging Git Changelog:
* build: Update vcpkg baseline
* build: Enhance robustness of unit test execution
* Refine mount help text and various review comments
* Introduce proper wildcard management for images
* Resolve variable naming ambiguities
* Fix assertion in MountLocal
* Address PVS warnings
* Decompose large functions and implement parameterization struct
* Utilize NOTIFY_Warning instead of WriteOut, along with various review comments
* Enable mounting of bootable images with drive letters
* Correct log level and strings for certain messages
* Adjust log level for invalid images
* Add labels and further enhance help text
* Implement review feedback
* Correct CUE mounts from DOS drive
* Address additional PVS warnings
* Establish a unified mount command
* Enhance image load error logging
* Utilize 4-byte Partial Page Mapping data like EMM386 and other memory managers
* Manage EOF character in batch files as the actual end of the file
* Avoid clearing message queues of MPU-401 compatibles during reset
* Extend floppy disk image support for larger size formats
* Set MCB ownership in instances where resizing the block does not yield an error
* Retain AH register value in Get System Date function
* Fix video sequencer data and clarify meaning of the odd/even bit
* Exclude LFB address in VESA info for non-LFB modes and correct panning for VESA text modes
* Complete the Video Parameter Table for select modes
* Allow writing to all planes when rendering pixels in EGA modes
* Encapsulate custom shader pragmas within multi-line comment blocks
* Incorporate ccache support into CMake build