4.13
- Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64.
- Update embedded GRUB to v2.14.
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4.12
- Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs
- Filter disallowed characters in local account names
- Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection (courtesy of Martin Kuschnik)
- Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code
- Improve error reporting on ISO extraction issues
- Improve detection of drives with long hardware IDs (typically SSDs)
- Improve conflicting process reporting
- Improve support for Nutanix and umbrelOS ISOs
- Fix a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution (CVE-2026-2398, reported by @independent-arg)
- Fix replacement vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe
- Fix FFU image creation being erroneously invocated, when trying to save an ISO image
- Fix saving of ISO images to paths that contain spaces
- Update UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to latest
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4.11
- Add a cheat mode to toggle between Light and Dark mode
- Improve WUE option text relating to the CA 2023 option
- Update Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Secure Boot revocation values to latest
- Fix some GRUB/Syslinux download dialogs showing only the 'Close' button
- Fix an assert being triggered when using the WUE CA 2023 option on its own
- Fix an application crash on systems that have a failed dynamic disk
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4.10
- Add Dark Mode support (courtesy of @ozone10)
- Add support for creating Windows CA 2023 compatible media (requires a Windows 11 25H2 ISO)
- Add support for saving an existing drive to ISO (UDF only)
- Improve error reporting when saving to VHD/VHDX (with thanks to @Kazkans)
- Improve persistence support for Linux Mint
- Fix UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none
- Fix a situation where no file system can be selected in ISO mode
- Fix a crash when trying to process Windows ISOs with very long paths
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4.9
- Fix downloads from https://rufus.ie no longer working due to recent GitHub server changes
- Fix unofficial Windows ISOs, with single index WIMs, not presenting the WUE dialog
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4.8
- Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing:
- Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs
- Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won't do miracles if you have a crap drive)
- Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still unsupported)
- Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS)
- Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
- Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, ...)
- Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status
- Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive
- Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version
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4.7
- Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
- Add ztsd compression support for disk images
- Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
- Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
- Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
- Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
- Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
- Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
- Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
- Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
- Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are *NOT* affected by this)
- Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest
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4.6
- Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions (#2568)
- Add TimeZone to regional options replication (#2499)
- Set local account passwords to not expire by default
- Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images (#2468)
- Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline (#2556)
- Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX
- Improve support for ReactOS boot media
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4.5
- Add a new advanced option, that adds runtime UEFI media validation to suitable images (Windows, most Linux)
- Move the 'Use Rufus MBR' advanced option to a cheat mode (Alt-A)
- Fix truncation of VHDX images, as well as a benign error message when writing VHD/VHDX
- Fix support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04)
- Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities (with thanks to Mansour Gashasbi)
- Update internal GRUB to version 2.12
- Update UEFI:NTFS to latest (now always uses the ntfs-3g driver, rather than the buggy AMI NTFS one)
- Increase buffer size when copying ISO files, in an attempt to minimize the AMI NTFS UEFI driver bug
- Improve partition creation handling
- Don't display the WUE dialog when a conflicting 'unattend.xml' already exists
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4.4
- Add workaround for distros that use broken symbolic links as their UEFI bootloaders (such as Mint 21.3)
- Add support for GRUB 2.12
- Fix a crash when saving .ffu images
- Fix UEFI:NTFS partition not being added, in MBR mode, for some Linux ISOs
- Prevent Microsoft Dev Drives from being listed
- Improve support for SDXC card readers
- Improve Large FAT32 formatting by aligning start of data regions to 1 MB (courtesy of Fred)
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4.3
- Add support for symlink preservation when NTFS is used
- Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
- Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
- Fix persistence support for Debian 12 in BIOS mode
- Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images (#2309)
- Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
- Improve the search for conflicting processes, by running it in a background thread
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4.2
- Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b)
- Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB
- Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed VHDX image
- Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed FFU (Full Flash Update) image [EXPERIMENTAL]
- Fix a crash when trying to open Windows ISOs, with the MinGW compiled x86 32-bit version
- Fix an issue where ISOs that contain a boot image with an 'EFI' label are not be detected bootable
- Increase the ISO → ESP limit for Debian 12 netinst images
- Ensure that the main partition size is aligned to the cluster size
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