Rufus

[Mohammad.Poorya]

Changes in Rufus 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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[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.5 released as stable version now:

Release Rufus 4.5 · pbatard/rufus:

• Add new advanced option to perform runtime UEFI media validation of 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 (#2468)
  
• 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
  Code:

  unattend.xml
  already exists (#2451)
  

Download: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/release...us-4.5.exe

[harlan4096]

Rufus 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 (#2589)
  

Release Rufus 4.6 · pbatard/rufus  
Rufus 4.6 gets Windows 11 24H2 unsupported PC bypass, ReactOS boot fix  

[harlan4096]

Rufus 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
  

Release Rufus 4.7 · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.8 (stable)

• 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
  
• Fix commandline parameters not being forwarded to original Windows setup.exe
  

Release Rufus 4.8 · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.9 [BUGFIX RELEASE]

• Fix downloads from Rufus - The Official Website (Download, New Releases) no longer working due to recent GitHub server changes
  
• Fix unofficial Windows ISOs, with single index WIMs, not presenting the WUE dialog
  

Release Rufus 4.9 [BUGFIX RELEASE] · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.10 (stable release):

• 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 UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none (#2762)
  
• Fix a situation where no file system can be selected in ISO mode (#2769)
  
• Fix a crash when trying to process Windows ISOs with very long paths (#2777)(#2787)(#2793)
  

Release Rufus 4.10 · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.11

• 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 on systems that have a failed dynamic disk (#2794)
  

Release Rufus 4.11 · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.12 (stable release)

• 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 Nutanix (#2884) 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 (#2889)
  
• Fix saving of ISO images to paths that contain spaces (#2829)
  
• Update UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to latest
  

Release Rufus 4.12 · pbatard/rufus