VeraCrypt 1.23

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VeraCrypt 1.25.9:

1.25.9 (February 19[sup]th[/sup], 2022):

• All OSes:
  • Update translations (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Turkish).
    
• Windows:
  • Make MSI installer compatible with system encryption.
    
  • Set minimum support for MSI installation to Windows 7.
    
  • Fix failure to create Traveler Disk when VeraCrypt is installed using MSI.
    
  • Don't cache the outer volume password when mounting with hidden volume protection if wrong hidden volume password was specified.
    
  • Reduce the size of EXE installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE.
    
  • Fix double-clicking mounted drive in VeraCrypt UI not working in some special Windows configurations.
    
  • Add registry key to fix BSOD during shutdown/reboot on some machines when using system encryption.
    • Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt", create a REG_DWORD value named "VeraCryptEraseKeysShutdown".
      
    • Setting this registry value to 0 disables erasing system encryption keys which is the cause of BSOD during shutdown on some machines.
      
• Linux:
  • Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.
    
  • Fix generic Linux installer overwriting /usr/sbin if it is a symlink.
    
  • Fix crash when building with _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS defined.
    
  • Enable building from source without AES-NI support.
    
• MacOSX:
  • Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.
    

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VeraCrypt 1.26.7:

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VeraCrypt 1.26.15

1.26.15 (September 2nd, 2024):

• Windows:
  • Fix MSI install/uninstall issues:
    • Fixed error 1603 returned by MSI silent install when REBOOT=ReallySuppress is specified and a reboot is required.
      
    • Fixed missing documentation and language files from the MSI package.
      
    • Fixed MSI not installing new documentation and language files when upgrading from an EXE-based installation.
      
    • Fixed installation folder not being removed after MSI uninstall in some cases.
      
  • Fix regression during UEFI system decryption that caused the bootloader to persist.
    

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VeraCrypt 1.26.18

1.26.18 (January 20th, 2025):

• All OSes:
  • Added support for SHA-256 x86 intrinsic to enhance the performance of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256.
    
  • Added support for AES hardware on ARM64 platforms (e.g. Windows ARM64, macOS on Apple Silicon Mx).
    
  • Updated translations
    
• Windows:
  • Dropped support for Windows 32-bit.
    
  • Set Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) as the minimum supported version.
    
  • Reduce driver deadlock occurences under low-memory scenarios caused by re-entrant IRP completions.
    
  • Fixed failed EFI detection on some PCs where the BootOrder variable is not defined (proposed by @kriegste, GH #360).
    
  • Fixed "Access Denied" error when updating VeraCrypt using EXE setup following a Windows upgrade.
    
  • Fixed various issues affecting the EFI system encryption configuration editor.
    
  • Fixed regression in Traveler Disk creation (GH #886)
    
  • Replaced the deprecated CryptGenRandom with BCryptGenRandom for generating secure random bytes.
    
  • Use modern API to gather system entropy for random generation instead of obsolete ones.
    
  • Update LZMA SDK to version 24.09
    
  • Update libzip to version 1.11.2
    
• Linux:
  • CVE-2024-54187: Added absolute paths when executing system binaries to prevent path hijacking (collaboration with SivertPL @__tfr)
    
  • CVE-2025-23021: Prevent mounting volumes on system directories and PATH (reported by SivertPL @__tfr)
    
  • Fixed an assertion issue with the wxWidgets library included in Ubuntu.
    
  • Improved directory-opening logic by prioritizing xdg-open and adding fallback mechanisms.
    
  • Ensure that volume exists before starting the mount operation.
    
  • Fix "Password too long" error message not expanded to include max length (GH #1456)
    
  • Simplify sudo session detection logic.
    
• macOS:
  • CVE-2024-54187: Added absolute paths when executing system binaries to prevent path hijacking (collaboration with SivertPL @__tfr)
    
  • CVE-2025-23021: Prevent mounting volumes on system directories and PATH (reported by SivertPL @__tfr)
    
  • Disabled screen capture by default. Added the --allow-screencapture CLI switch to enable it if needed.
    
  • Ensure that volume exists before starting the mount operation.
    
  • Implement sudo session detection logic
    

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VeraCrypt 1.26.20:
 
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VeraCrypt 1.26.24

Changes between 1.26.20 and 1.26.24 (30 May 2025):

• All OSes:
  • Fix Whirlpool implementation for big-endian platforms. (GH #1529)
    
  • Rename "Dismount All" to "Unmount All" in UI. Use ALT+u as new accelerator key instead of ALT+s.
    
  • Add contributed Chinese and Russian CHM documentation.
    
  • Update translations.
    
• Windows:
  • Implemented screen protection against screenshots and screen recording, enabled by default.
    • This feature can be disabled during installation or via the Performance/Driver Configuration settings.
      
  • Added checkboxes to the MSI installer to control memory protection and screen protection features.
    • Introduced command-line options DISABLEMEMORYPROTECTION and DISABLESCREENPROTECTION for the MSI installer to manage these features.
      • Both options accept values 0 (enabled) or 1 (disabled).
        
      • Example usage: msiexec /i VeraCrypt_Setup_x64_1.26.22.msi DISABLESCREENPROTECTION=1 /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable ACCEPTLICENSE=YES
        
  • Fix race conditions when multiple instances of veracrypt.exe are started simultaneously.
    
  • Update libzip to version 1.11.3.
    
• Linux:
  • Add support for AppImage packaging and usage.
    
  • Fix absolute path of true command not being used when checking if sudo session is active.
    
  • Fix failure to use Hungarian language translations.
    
  • Improve generic installer scripts. (GH #1514)
    
  • Add support for /run/media/veracrypt as default mount prefix when /media is not available. (GH #1524)
    
  • Remove pcsclite dependency from .deb/.rpm packages since it is detected/loaded dynamically at runtime.
    
• macOS:
  • Fix absolute path of true command not being used when checking if sudo session is active.
    
  • Create simlink of VeraCrypt in /usr/local/bin to allow using it from command line.
    
  • Fix failure to use Hungarian language translations.
    

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