Azahar 2126.0 Alpha 2

[OpenSauce04]

⚠️Important Alpha Information⚠️

As an alpha release, this build is not yet considered stable.

This prerelease is intended for users to test upcoming features, allowing the community to provide feedback before they are distributed in a stable release.
Users interested in testing bleeding-edge software are encouraged to test out this build to help us catch any issues we may have missed during development.

If you are unwilling to tolerate potential issues, it may be better to wait for the next stable release.

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This changelog is relative to the changelog for 2126.0 Alpha 1. You can read that changelog here:
https://github.com/azahar-emu/azahar/releases/tag/2126.0-alpha1

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Azahar 2126.0-alpha2 Changelog

Desktop

• Fixed a long-standing issue where Azahar's detection of the system language could be incorrect, resulting in an unexpected language being used in the UI. | @exertustfm qt: Fix incorrect system language detection #1558
• Many default messages in the user interface provided by upstream Qt (OK, Cancel, etc) are now translated for most languages. | @OpenSauce04 qt: Use upstream Qt Base translations where available #2153
  • For the following languages, these UI strings currently remain untranslated as before due to no translation being available for use in upstream Qt:
    • Greek, Indonesian, Norwegian Bokmål, Lithuanian, Romania, Vietnamese

Android

• On devices where ANGLE is used for OpenGL rendering, the Vulkan renderer is forcefully enabled due to extremely apparent visual defects when using the OpenGL renderer with ANGLE. | @OpenSauce04 android: Force use of Vulkan if OpenGL renderer is ANGLE #2197
  • You can tell if your device is affected by checking the renderer selection option in Azahar's settings. It will be greyed out and will display a message related to ANGLE when selected if you are using an ANGLE-enabled device.
  • Most devices will not yet be affected, however on and after Android 17's release, ANGLE will become enabled by default and mandatory for all newly released devices (not necessarily devices updating to Android 17 from an earlier version).
• Assorted improvements and new options relating to secondary screen functionality. | @DavidRGriswold Android: Secondary Layout and Menu Improvements #1385

All

• Fixed an issue where certain older homebrew software would get stuck on a black screen at boot. | @Masamune3210 initialize IRQ_CMP #2143
• Migrated many of our non-English language translations to simplified language codes, allowing correct system languages to be detected more consistently. | @OpenSauce04 Migrate translations to new language codes #2152
• Fixed an issue related to disabled cubemap texture units; known fixes in Brain Age: Concentration Training. | @Wunkolo renderer_gl: Fix disabled cubemap texture units #2159
• Adjusted the unimplemented gas stub behaviour for the Vulkan renderer, fixing a known graphical issue in the Monster Hunter games. | @RedBlackAka video_core: Change unimplemented gas stub behavior for Vulkan #2165
• Fixed a typo in a settings log message. | @72374 Fix typo in Renderer_DelayGameRenderThreadUs #2076
• Additional refinements relating to the new GDB implementation. | @PabloMK7 core: Refactor thread unschedule and add debug frontend unschedule #2145
• Fixed a possible integer overflow issue relating to custom Luma3DS mapping + optimized implementation. | @0x48kirenh core/memory: Fix undefined behavior and optimize Luma alias path #2202

Docker

• Distribute an ARM64 Docker image binary. | @OpenSauce04 Assorted azahar-room Docker image improvements (incl. ARM64 support) #2151

macOS

• Fixed several minor issues relating to MoltenVK/Metal. | @sergeymild macos: fix Vulkan/Metal renderer on macOS 26+ and bump MoltenVK #2149

Technical

• The USE_DISCORD_PRESENCE CMake option has been renamed to ENABLE_DISCORD_RPC. Downstream users/maintainers should compensate for this accordingly. | @OpenSauce04 Technical Discord rich presence adjustments #2216
• The ENABLE_QT_TRANSLATION CMake option is now enabled by default, adding qt6-tools-dev or your package manager's equivalent as a new default build dependency for the Qt frontend if you weren't already manually enabling this flag. | @OpenSauce04 cmake: Enable ENABLE_QT_TRANSLATION by default #2206
• Fixed linker warning spam related to the minimum macOS version when Discord RPC was enabled. | @OpenSauce04 Technical Discord rich presence adjustments #2216
  • This issue has existed for a very long time, and doesn't seem to have ever caused any actual issues. This is likely just a technical correctness thing.
• Fixed a compilation failure which could manifest when a system MoltenVK install was present, even if it wasn't being used. | @crueter [cmake] Fix MoltenVK fetch order/library conflicts #2183
• Fixed a compilation error when building in debug mode. | @Wunkolo core: Fix debug compile error #2132
• Fixed an issue which could prevent the azahar-room Dockerfile from building with Podman. | @OpenSauce04 Assorted azahar-room Docker image improvements (incl. ARM64 support) #2151
• Added debug scopes to OpenGL renderer rasterizer and texture runtime. | @Wunkolo renderer_gl: Add DebugScopes to rasterizer and texture-runtime #2133
• Extensive Kotlin codebase formatting cleanup + new formatting/style enforcement in CI via ktlint. | @OpenSauce04 android: Integrate ktlint formatting/style checker for kotlin #2204

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