# Rufus changelog > Create bootable USB drives the easy way. - Vendor: Pete Batard - Category: Developer Tools - Official site: https://rufus.ie - Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus) - Harvested from: GitHub (pbatard/rufus) - Entries below: 10 (newest first) What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. ## Releases ### v4.15 — Rufus 4.15 - Date: 2026-06-30 - Version: v4.15 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.15 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.15 - **added** — Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS - **changed** — Improve the guards for using the silent Windows installation option - **changed** — Improve the ability to cancel during write retries - **changed** — Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction - **security** — Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser - **fixed** — Fix silent Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases - **fixed** — Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms - **fixed** — Fix first WUE option always being checked by default - **fixed** — Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs - **fixed** — Fix Enable runtime UEFI media validation checkbox not always being properly enabled - **changed** — Improve WUE for OneDrive removal and username validation * Add RISC-V 64 support to [UEFI:NTFS](https://github.com/pbatard/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](https://github.com/pbatard/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] ### v4.14 — Rufus 4.14 - Date: 2026-04-30 - Version: v4.14 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.14 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.14 - **added** — Add a Quality of Life option to disable Teams, Outlook, Copilot and other Microsoft forced nuisances - **added** — Add a Silent installation option that automatically installs Windows on the first detected disk on the target platform without prompts - **added** — Add an option to copy SkuSiPolicy.p7b to the ESP on installation - **added** — Add tooltips for all the dialog options - **added** — Add limited support for El-Torito UEFI image extraction, mostly for Dell BIOS update ISOs - **changed** — Improve error report when the user tries to use an image that resides on the target drive - **changed** — Improve the UEFI:NTFS partition label to make the install media more explicit during Windows Setup disk partitioning - **changed** — Improve support for Bazzite and other Fedora derivatives that don't follow EFI conventions - **changed** — Improve reporting of GRUB and Isolinux MBRs - **changed** — Improve detection and exclusion of the new Bitdefender hidden VHDs - **fixed** — Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media due to the use of new versions of bcdboot - **fixed** — Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces * _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, 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](https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5042562) for more info) - Add tooltips for all the dialog options * Add limited support for [El-Torito](http://wiki.osdev.org/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](github.com/pbatard/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) ### v4.13 — Rufus 4.13 [BUGFIX RELEASE] - Date: 2026-02-17 - Version: v4.13 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.13 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.13 - **fixed** — Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64 - **changed** — Update embedded GRUB to v2.14 * Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64 * Update embedded GRUB to v2.14 ### v4.12 — Rufus 4.12 - Date: 2026-01-30 - Version: v4.12 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.12 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.12 - **added** — Filter out the new Bitdefender VHDs - **added** — Filter disallowed characters in local account names - **changed** — Improve Microsoft Dev Drive detection - **changed** — Improve the pre-formatting partition cleanup code - **changed** — Improve error reporting on ISO extraction issues - **changed** — Improve detection of drives with long hardware IDs typically SSDs - **changed** — Improve conflicting process reporting - **changed** — Improve support for Nutanix and umbrelOS ISOs - **security** — Fix a TOCTOU vulnerability in Fido script execution - **security** — Fix replacement vulnerabilities for diskcopy.dll and oscdimg.exe - **fixed** — Fix FFU image creation being erroneously invoked when trying to save an ISO image - **fixed** — Fix saving of ISO images to paths that contain spaces - **changed** — Update UEFI:NTFS and UEFI DBXs to latest * 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](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/security/advisories/GHSA-hcx5-hrhj-xhq9), 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 ### v4.11 — Rufus 4.11 - Date: 2025-10-02 - Version: v4.11 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.11 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.11 * 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) ### v4.10 — Rufus 4.10 - Date: 2025-09-24 - Version: v4.10 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.10 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.10 * 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](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ#how-do-i-secure-a-pc-for-the-pca-2011-windows-uefi-certificate-revocation-and-install-windows-11-25h2-on-it)). * 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) ### v4.9 — Rufus 4.9 [BUGFIX RELEASE] - Date: 2025-06-15 - Version: v4.9 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.9 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.9 * 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 **Note:** The GitHub issue mentioned above means that **NONE** of the existing versions of Rufus are able to automatically detect and update to the 4.9 release. You **MUST** upgrade to Rufus 4.9 manually, even if you have check for updates enabled in Rufus... 😢 ###### Also from Rufus 4.8: * Switch to [wimlib](https://wimlib.net) 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](https://github.com/pbatard/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 ### v4.8 — Rufus 4.8 - Date: 2025-06-11 - Version: v4.8 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.8 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.8 * Switch to [wimlib](https://wimlib.net) 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](https://github.com/pbatard/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 ### v4.7 — Rufus 4.7 - Date: 2025-04-09 - Version: v4.7 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.7 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.7 * Add a mechanism to detect and download updated [DBXs](https://uefi.org/revocationlistfile) from the official UEFI repository * Add [ztsd compression](https://github.com/facebook/zstd) 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](https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/security/advisories/GHSA-p8p5-r296-g2jv)] 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](https://www.freedos.org/) and [Grub4DOS](https://github.com/chenall/grub4dos) to latest ### v4.6 — Rufus 4.6 - Date: 2024-10-21 - Version: v4.6 - Original notes: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.6 - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/rufus/releases/v4.6 * Add a new `setup.exe` wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions (#2568) * Add TimeZone to regional options replication (#2499) * Set local account passwords to not expire by default * Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images (#2468) * Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline (#2556) * Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support [Linux SBAT](https://github.com/rhboot/shim/blob/main/SBAT.md), [Windows SVN](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5025885-how-to-manage-the-windows-boot-manager-revocations-for-secure-boot-changes-associated-with-cve-2023-24932-41a975df-beb2-40c1-99a3-b3ff139f832d#bkmk_mitigation_guidelines) and cert DBX * Improve support for [ReactOS](https://reactos.org/) boot media (#2589)