Finally work around that stupid AMI NTFS driver bug, so that runtime UEFI media validation can work on the millions of PCs that AMI screwed up Finally report USB 3.2+ devices (USB 3.2 = 20 Gbps, USB 4.0 = 40 Gpbs, USB 4.1 = 80 Gbps — See, USB Forum, it's really NOT that hard!) Fix the CA 2023 updated files not being taken into account during runtime UEFI media validation Fix the "Silent" installat…
Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS Improve the guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option Improve the ability to cancel during write retries Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9] Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases…
Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS Improve the guards for using the "silent" option Improve the ability to cancel during write retries Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9] Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960] Fix a crash…
Improve the guards for using the "silent" option Improve the ability to cancel during write retries Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9] Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960] Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934] Fix the first W…
Windows User Experience improvements: Add a "Quality of Life" option, to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances Add a Silent installation option, that automatically, and WITHOUT PROMPT, installs Windows on the first detected disk on the target platform Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation (please refer to KB5042562 for more info) Add toolti…
Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64 Update embedded GRUB to v2.14
Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs Filter disallowed characters in local account names Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection (#2873, courtesy of @MartinKuschnik) Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code Improve error reporting on ISO extraction issues Improve detection of drives with long hardware IDs (typically SSDs) (#2894) Improve conflicting process reporting Improve support for Nuta…
Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-Alt-D) to toggle between Light and Dark mode (#2814) 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 (#2813) Fix an assert being triggered when using the WUE CA 2023 option on its own (#2815, #2818) Fix an application crash…
Add Dark Mode support (courtesy of @ozone10) (#1453)(#2510)(#2713) Add support for creating Windows CA 2023 compatible media (requires a Windows 11 25H2 ISO. For more on this, see this Rufus FAQ entry). Add support for saving an existing drive to ISO (UDF only) Improve error reporting when saving to VHD/VHDX (with thanks to @Kazkans) (#2779)(#2799) Improve persistence support for Linux Mint (#2807…
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 Note: The GitHub issue mentioned above means that NONE of the existing versions of Rufus are able to automatically detect and update to the 4.9 release. You MUST upgrade to Rufus 4.9 manually, even if you have check for updates…
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 Visua…
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 f…
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, Win…