Rufus 3.18.1877 / 3.19.1096 BETA

[alimac]

Changes in 3.18.1877 :

• Fix DLL sideloading vulnerabilities
• Fix ISO → ESP creation when running on Windows 11
• Fix an issue when detecting network connectivity when the DHCP service is disabled
• Update FreeDOS to version 1.3
• Add bypass of Windows 11 restrictions for in-place upgrades
• Add Miracle Linux 8 to the list of Red Hat exceptions

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3.19.0966 BETA

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[alimac]

Rufus 3.19 Beta changelog:

Add a new selection dialog for Windows 11 setup customization:

• Secure Boot and TPM bypass have now been moved to this dialog
• Also allows to bypass the mandatory requirement for a Microsoft account with Windows 11 22H2
• (NB: Network MUST be temporarily disabled or unplugged for the local account creation to be proposed)
• Also add an option to skip all collection questions (Sets all answers to "Don't allow"/"Refuse")
• Also add an option for setting internal drives offline with Windows To Go

Note: These customization options are only proposed when using a Windows 11 image.

 

[alimac]

The option to skip the Microsoft Account on Home and Pro versions of Windows 11 is not displayed, but it becomes active automatically, if the network connection is disabled during that stage of setup.

 

[alimac]

Rufus, a popular third-party app for creating bootable media, has received yet another wonderful update. Version 3.20 BETA introduces the option to create a local offline account and copy regional settings from the current Windows installation. The only caveat here is that the account creation feature can only make a user with the same name as the current one and a blank password. After the first reboot, Windows will prompt you to change the password.

Here is the rest of the changelog containing other bugfixes and improvements:

• Enable applicable Windows User Experience options for Windows 10
• Make Windows User Experience options persist between sessions
• Add automatic local account creation and regional options duplication. This is limited to creating an account with the same name as the current user and with an empty password that the user will be prompted to change after first reboot.
• Add a workaround for ISOs that have a syslinux symbolic link to /isolinux/ (Knoppix).
• Revert to offline insertion of registry keys for the TPM/SB/RAM bypass where possible.
• Remove storage bypass, since this is a bogus bypass that doesn't do anything.
• Improve BIOS compatibility when displaying the "UEFI boot only" alert message.
• Fix Windows User Experience dialog appearing twice for Windows To Go.
• Fix Windows User Experience options not being applied for ARM64.
• Fix Microsoft Account bypass not being applied unless TPM/SB/RAM bypass is selected.

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[alimac]

v3.20

• Enable applicable Windows User Experience options for Windows 10.
• Remember last Windows User Experience selection between sessions
• Add automatic local account creation and regional options duplication. This is limited to creating an account with the same name as the current user and with an empty password that the user will be prompted to change after first reboot.
• Add a workaround for ISOs that have a syslinux symbolic link to /isolinux/ (Knoppix).
• Revert to offline insertion of registry keys for the TPM/SB/RAM bypass where possible.
• Remove storage bypass, since this is a bogus bypass that doesn't do anything.
• Improve BIOS compatibility when displaying the "UEFI boot only" alert message.
• Fix Windows User Experience dialog appearing twice for Windows To Go.
• Fix Windows User Experience options not being applied for ARM64.
• Fix Microsoft Account bypass not being applied unless TPM/SB/RAM bypass is selected.
• New: Fix overeager detection of GRUB2 bootloaders with nonstandard prefixes.

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

 

[alimac]

v3.21
Changes
rufus/ChangeLog.txt at master · pbatard/rufus

Download
Index of /downloads

 

[alimac]

The latest final version of Rufus launched a few hours ago. The new update, version 3.22, which had came out last week as beta, adds the option to disable BitLocker encryption from within the Windows User Experience window. Previously, Rufus had added bypass for Windows 11 RAM, Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and Microsoft Account (MSA) requirements too.

Release Rufus 3.22 · pbatard/rufus

 

[alimac]

Rufus v4.0.2035 Released (April 26, 2023)

ChangeLog
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatard/rufus/master/ChangeLog.txt

Download
Index of /downloads

 

[alimac]

Changes in 4.1.2045:

• Add timeouts on enumeration queries that may stall on some systems
• Restore MS-DOS drive creation through the download of binaries from Microsoft
• Update the log button icon
• Fix UEFI:NTFS incompatibility with Windows Dev Kit 2023 platform
• Fix more out of range pointer errors with Ubuntu/Fedora when booting in BIOS mode

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

 

[alimac]

Changes in 4.2.4070 BETA:

• Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b)
• Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB (
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed VHDX image
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed FFU (Full Flash Update) image [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Fix a crash when trying to open Windows ISOs, with the x86 32-bit version
• Increase ISO → ESP limit, for Debian 12 netinst images
• Make sure the main partition size is aligned to the cluster size

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.2_BETA/rufus-4.2_BETA.exe

 

[alimac]

Changes in 4.2.2074:

• Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b)
• Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed VHDX image
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed FFU (Full Flash Update) image [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Fix a crash when trying to open Windows ISOs, with the MinGW compiled x86 32-bit version
• Fix an issue where ISOs that contain a boot image with an 'EFI' label are not be detected bootable
• Increase the ISO → ESP limit for Debian 12 netinst images
• Ensure that the main partition size is aligned to the cluster size

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.2/rufus-4.2.exe

 

[alimac]

4.3.2090

• Add support for Rock Ridge symbolic links preservation when NTFS is used
• Add an exception to enforce NTFS for Linux Mint's LMDE
• Add an expert feature to restrict a Windows installation to S Mode
• Fix persistence support for Debian 12 when booted in BIOS mode
• Fix a regression that prevented the opening of .vhd images
• Update UEFI:NTFS to report a more explicit error on bootmgr security issues
• Improve the search for conflicting processes by running it in a background thread
• Improve support for Slax Linux

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.3/rufus-4.3.exe

portable

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.3/rufus-4.3p.exe

 

[silverdale]

Will this unlock a laptop with bitlocker on boot ?

 

[alimac]

would doubt it as not its default use

 

[silverdale]

Ok thanks

 

[alimac]

Changes in 4.4.2103 :

• 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

installer
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.4/rufus-4.4.exe

portable
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.4/rufus-4.4p.exe