0.84.0-alpha-5854b
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Automated development build — updated 2026-11-02 14:18 UTC from commit
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[!WARNING] These are the automatically generated release notes of the latest development snapshot build! This is not a stable release; things might blow up! 💣 🔥 💀
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Full PR list of game compatibility improvements
- Fix Frontier: First Encounters crash on non-x86 platforms (#4892)
- Improve CHOP rounding for near-integer FPU results (#5149) [backport]
- Improve PC speaker impulse model (#4906)
Full PR list of graphics-related changes
- Add
vesa_custom_resolutionsetting (#4985) - Add
wrap_modeNshader 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]
- Fix text-mode horizontal pel panning direction (#5075)
- Only lock/unlock SDL surface when it is not already in that state (#4970) [backport]
- Only read back rendered captures after the capture path is allocated (#5081) [backport]
- Rebuild the EGA pixel buffer when entering EGA mode (#5121)
- Remove large static framebuffer arrays from the executable (#5140) [backport]
- Resend the whole DAC palette when entering VGA mode (#5122)
- Save window size & position on mapper exit (#4967)
- Skip setting up a video mode while its size is still zero (#5123)
- Support pixel and percentage units in window size, position, and viewport settings (#5093)
- Sync CRT shader phosphor mask overlays to the output image (#5087) [backport]
Full PR list of sound-related changes
- Add generic CLAP plugin support - Attempt 2 (#5102)
- Add optional oplmode = cqm (Nuked-CQM) (#5153)
- Avoid GUS crash when DMA callback is not configured (#5079)
- Fix MT-32 or FluidSynth MIDI rushing forward after fast-forwarding on slow hosts (#5098)
- Improve PC speaker impulse model (#4906)
- Make The Entertainer variant of the SSI-2001 opt-in (#5067) [backport]
- Post SDL3 mixer cleanup and bugfixes (#4973)
- Reduce GUS frame processing overhead (#4956) [backport]
- 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)
- Use default unity gain for GUS audio samples (#5012) [backport]
Full PR list of input-related changes
- Fix i8042 word/dword read regression (#5065) [backport]
- Fix joystick disabled after changing joysticktype at runtime (#5055) [backport]
- Fix mouse capture crashing in Linux vcpkg builds (overlay triplet) (#5094)
- Make keyboard capture follow the mouse, and fix it on macOS (#5059)
Full PR list of DOS integration related changes
- Add CHCP to allow changing only the codepage. (#4997) [backport]
- 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]
- Enable opt-in PNG support for SDL_image (#5139)
- Fix CPU slice dependent DOS file I/O delay (0.81.0 regression) (#4991) [backport]
- Fix directory timestamps on Windows (#5060)
- Fix empty shortname corrupting drive cache for unmappable UTF-8 chars (#5050)
- Fix running programs via relative paths without an extension (#5116) [backport]
- Fix runtime
[dos]setting changes leaking DOS private memory (#5063) [backport] - Implement DOS STACKS-type feature for keyboard and timer interrupts (#4855)
- MOUNT command parsing fixes (#5053) [backport]
- Reject MOUNT sector sizes larger than 512 bytes (#5146)
- Sync MOUNT command changes from 0.83.x (#5089)
Full PR list of localisation-related changes
- docs: Add German translations for newly-added CHCP/KEYB changes. (#5001) [backport]
- Fix keyboard layout mapping for Croatian (#5032)
- Remove automatic locale setting guessing heuristics (#5080) [backport]
- 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) [backport]
- Add policy about the use of generative AI tools (#4914)
- Automatic documentation preview deploys (#4895) [backport]
- docs: Add section about Windows command line jank (#4975) [backport]
- docs: Make man page OPTIONS section render correctly on POSIX 80 column terminals (#5133) [backport]
- docs: Rewrite vcpkg build tools paragraph (#5016)
- Document all
emssetting options (#5054) [backport] - Finalise CMake build instructions (#4989)
- Fix man page to be fully conformant with IEEE Std 1003.1 (POSIX) attempt 2 (#5132) [backport]
- Man page update with links to Getting Started and User Manual pages (#5130) [backport]
- Standardise man page SPECIAL KEYS macro formatting (#5137) [backport]
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)
- Application icon update (#5017)
- 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)
- Fix Windows no-console launcher (#5057) [backport]
- Improve file organisation (#5141)
- Improve release drafter script (#5156)
- Improve Windows portable ZIP repackager script (#4873) [backport]
- 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 context menu icon references in installer script (#5034) [backport]
- Update dependencies (#5073)
- Update vcpkg baseline and remove libsystemd custom port (#4928)
- Upgrade to C++23 and fix compatibility issues (#4891)
Full PR list of miscellaneous enhancements
- Add logfile support (#5135)
- Allow shutdown via POST /api/v1/dosbox/shutdown (#4842)
- Implement the pause feature properly (#4957)
Full PR list of miscellaneous fixes
- Don't double-quote restart arguments on Windows (#5145)
- Fix unit test fixture not applying its config file (#5061) [backport]
- Fix website deploy failures and concurrent push races (#5110)
- Improve CHOP rounding for near-integer FPU results (#5149) [backport]
- Improve disk noise and disk speed settings log output (#4880) [backport]
- IPX fixes (#5064) [backport]
- Make RWQueue more robust and fix a sporadic tripped debug assert at startup (#5142)
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
- Burrito78
- codengine
- dividebysandwich
- farsil
- gmegidish
- Grounded0
- gschmidl
- johnnovak
- jowtron
- kklobe
- Maseru898
- MashrafeeAryan
- maximilien-noal
- mplsllc
- pedrocatalao
- shakeyourbunny
- shermp
- tgies
- volpison
- vvekic
- weirddan455