Rufus Releases

antspants said:

Sure, so you don't remember?

My understanding is that disconnecting the internet now causes complications unless you do a local account install.
Howevvvva; I recently poled a studio audience and apparently I have zero idea about what I am referring to.

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• 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)

• 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

• 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

Rufus 4.10.2278 Beta Pre-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)
• 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)
• 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 BETA · pbatard/rufus

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 en...

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Rufus 4.11.2285​

• 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)

• 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

Releases · pbatard/rufus

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• Version 4.12 (2026.01.30)
  • 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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  • Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

• 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 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)

Rufus 4.14.2377 Final​

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Rufus is a small Open Source utility that helps quickly format and creates bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pen drives, memory sticks, etc.

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