Rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.14 (stable release)

• Windows User Experienceimprovements:
  • 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 tooltips for all the dialog options
    
• Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction (Mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs)
  
• Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive
  
• Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning
  
• Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions
  
• Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs
  
• Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs (#2953)
  
• Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot (#2940)
  
• Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces (#2950)
  

Release Rufus 4.14 · pbatard/rufus

[harlan4096]

Rufus 4.15 (stable release)

• 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 [#2960]
  
• Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934]
  
• Fix first WUE option always being checked by default [#2965]
  
• Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs
  
• Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly enabled
  
• Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation (with thanks to @christian8641) [#2984, #2991]
  

Release Rufus 4.15 · pbatard/rufus