New Update Rufus 4.x changelog updates

[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.8 BETA​

• 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

Release Rufus 4.8 BETA · pbatard/rufus

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)...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

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

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)...

github.com

Rufus 4.8 brings performance boost for Windows ISOs

Rufus has received its latest update and with this, it brings performance boost for Windows ISOs and many more improvements.

www.neowin.net

 

[silversurfer]

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

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 Also from Rufus 4.8: S...

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[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.10 BETA​

• 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) Add support for saving an existing driv...

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Rufus confirms Windows 11 25H2 ISO support as it launches a new update

Rufus has released a new update today. The release, though beta, brings new features as it confirms Windows 11 25H2 support.

www.neowin.net

 

[silversurfer]

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

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...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

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

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...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.12 BETA

• 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 BETA · pbatard/rufus

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 partiti...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

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

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 partiti...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.13 [BUGFIX RELEASE]​

• Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64
• Update embedded GRUB to v2.14

Release Rufus 4.13 [BUGFIX RELEASE] · pbatard/rufus

Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64 Update embedded GRUB to v2.14

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.14 BETA​

• 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)

Release Rufus 4.14 BETA · pbatard/rufus

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, ...

github.com

 

[silversurfer]

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

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, ...

github.com

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Rufus explains why the new way to install Windows 11 is currently broken

Earlier this week, Rufus received a major update with the final version of 4.14. It's a major update for sure as the new release brings a new way to install Windows 11 with a new silent option, allows you to disable several pre-installed apps and more. Check out the full details in its dedicated piece here.

However, a recently reported bug has been affecting the silent Windows installation feature and Peter Batard, the developer of the tool, confirmed it as he was able to replicate it too.

For now, the Rufus author has devised a test version to see if it's working. If you wish to try it out yourself you can get it from here on GitHub thread discussing the issue. You can also avoid using the silent installation feature as a temporary workaround.

https://www.neowin.net/news/rufus-explains-why-the-new-way-to-install-windows-11-is-currently-broken/

 

[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.15 BETA

• 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 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 BETA · pbatard/rufus

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 @esadowsk...

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[silversurfer]

Rufus 4.15 BETA2

• 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 during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms [#2934]
• Fix the 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 BETA2 · pbatard/rufus

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...

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[silversurfer]

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

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...

github.com