Release 2026-02-17 Release · microsoft/vcpkg-tool

What's Changed

Upgrade CodeQL and disable on macos-ci. by @BillyONeal in #1893
Test/fix internal dependencies in top level manifest. by @dg0yt in #1890
dependencies.cpp optimizations by @dg0yt in #1891
Deduplicate is_empty() calls and add {}s. by @BillyONeal in #1895
Switch default Ninja minimal version to a reasonable value by @cqundefine in #1897
Install files in parallel, redux by @BillyONeal in #1896
Automate minting the release notes table. by @BillyONeal in #1903
Bump lodash from 4.17.21 to 4.17.23 in /vcpkg-artifacts by @dependabot[bot] in #1905
Add CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS by @BillyONeal in #1904
[tools] Fix missing executable permission on downloaded tools for Unix by @zynfly in #1911
Use libcurl rather than curl command line by @BillyONeal in #1906
Deduplicate "additional_file" in abi info. by @BillyONeal in #1914
Remove optionality in ActionPlan and Summary by @BillyONeal in #1894
Replace all Optional<T&> with T*. by @BillyONeal in #1898
Update scripts sha 2026-02-12. by @BillyONeal in #1917
Clamp invalid elapsed time instead of crashing in track_elapsed_us by @clee704 in #1918
Suppress BinSkim errors in the Windows SDK. by @BillyONeal in #1920
Fix BinSkim again by @BillyONeal in #1921
Update scripts SHA 2026-02-17 by @BillyONeal in #1923
More BinSkim suppressions. by @BillyONeal in #1924

Full Changelog: 2025-12-16...2026-02-17