Utilities Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way 4.15

• Version 4.15(2026.06.30)
  • 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 Eric Sadowski).
  • Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases.
  • Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms.
  • Fix first WUE option always being checked by default.
  • 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).

• 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
  • Add an option to copy ‘SkuSiPolicy.p7b’ to the ESP on installation (refer to KB5042562)
  • 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 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
• Fix potential errors during creation of Windows To Go media, due to the use of new versions of bcdboot
• Fix errors with local accounts that start or end with whitespaces

• Version 4.13(2026.02.17) [BUGFIX RELEASE]
  • Fix UEFI:NTFS not selecting the proper driver for ARM/ARM64.
  • Update embedded GRUB to v2.14.

Changes in version 4.12:​

• 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

• Version 4.11(2025.10.02)
  • Add a cheat mode to toggle between Light and Dark mode.
  • Improve WUE option text relating to the CA 2023 option.
    For more info on CA 2023, see this Rufus FAQ entry.
  • Update Linux SBAT / Microsoft SVN Secure Boot revocation values to latest.
  • Fix some GRUB/Syslinux download dialogs showing only the 'Close' button.
  • Fix an assert being triggered when using the WUE CA 2023 option on its own.
  • Fix an application crash on systems that have a failed dynamic disk.

• Version 4.10(2025.09.24)
  • Add Dark Mode support (courtesy of @ozone10).
  • 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).
  • Improve persistence support for Linux Mint.
  • Fix UEFI DBX updates being reported in some timezones, even when there are none.
  • Fix a situation where no file system can be selected in ISO mode.
  • Fix a crash when trying to process Windows ISOs with very long paths.

• Version 4.9(2025.06.15) [BUGFIX RELEASE]
  • 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

Version 4.8 (2025.06.11)

• 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

• Version 4.7(2025.04.09)
  • 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

• Version 4.6(2024.10.21)
  • Add a new setup.exe wrapper to bypass Windows 11 24H2 in-place upgrade restrictions
  • Add TimeZone to regional options replication
  • Set local account passwords to not expire by default
  • Fix an error when trying to write compressed VHD images
  • Fix an error when invoking Rufus from the PowerShell commandline
  • Improve revoked UEFI bootloaders check to support Linux SBAT, Windows SVN and cert DBX
  • Improve support for ReactOS boot media