DOSBox-Staging Git Update (May 19, 2026)

DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/05/19) is a modernized version of the DOSBox project, enhancing compatibility with current systems through the adoption of updated development practices and tools. The latest changelog includes significant improvements, such as fixing PVS-Studio warnings across multiple files, zero-initializing member arrays, addressing null dereferences, merging code branches, and suppressing unnecessary warnings. Additional updates feature reformatting code, improving memory management, and ensuring build compatibility with Visual Studio 2022. New functionality resembling DOS STACKS has been implemented, and documentation has been updated. A source download link is provided for the x64 version.

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DOSBox-Staging Git (2026/05/19) has been compiled. This repository aims to modernize the DOSBox project by employing contemporary development practices and tools, resolving issues, enhancing features for better compatibility with today’s systems, and contributing patches upstream.

DOSBox-Staging Git Changelog:
* Set PVS-Studio CI maximum warnings to 0
* Address PVS-Studio warnings in voodoo.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in cpu.h
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in core_prefetch.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in prefix_none.h
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in port.cpp
* Zero-initialize member arrays in sn76496_base_device (PVS-Studio)
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in prefix_0f.h
* Fix PVS-Studio warnings in imfc.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in load.h
* Fix PVS-Studio warnings in vga_xga.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings with TODOs in mapper.cpp
* Reformat risc_x64.h
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in risc_x64.h
* Fix PVS-Studio warnings in reelmagic/driver.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in ipx.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in mouse.cpp
* Fix null dereference after dynamic_cast in dos_ioctl.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Merge identical unknown/illegal FPU case branches in fpu.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Merge identical unknown/illegal FPU case branches in dyn_fpu.h (PVS-Studio)
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in mount.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in decoder.h
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in drive_fat.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in drive_cache.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in dos_execute.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings with TODOs in dyn_cache.h
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in dos_code_page.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in dos_classes.cpp
* Suppress PVS-Studio warnings in png_writer.cpp
* Reformat ne2000.cpp and shell_cmds.cpp
* Fix ne2000 bounds checks and shell_cmds const_cast (PVS-Studio)
* Guard unsigned subtraction in dos_keyboard_layout.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Merge identical BIOS case branches in bios.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Refactor MemoryArea parsing in src/webserver/dos.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Address redundant assignment warning in webserver/dos.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Fix dram_size assignment warning in vga_s3.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Pre-allocate vectors in mem.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Remove unreachable code in drive_virtual.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Fix null FILE* dereference in drive_overlay.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Fix dead condition and suppress intentional V1037 in cmos.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* Simplify assertion in mixer.cpp (PVS-Studio)
* build: Correct VS2022 presets
* Implement DOS STACKS-like functionality
* build: Change ‘RC1’ version suffix back to ‘alpha’
* docs: Correct dev build artifact name regex for RC releases