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• 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 (#1971)
• Remove storage bypass, since this is a bogus bypass that doesn't do anything (#1990)
• Improve BIOS compatibility when displaying the "UEFI boot only" alert message
• Fix Windows User Experience dialog appearing twice for Windows To Go (#1968)
• Fix Windows User Experience options not being applied for ARM64 (#1996)
• Fix Microsoft Account bypass not being applied unless TPM/SB/RAM bypass is selected (#1981)

• 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")
  • 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.
• Add support for distros using a nonstandard GRUB 2.0 prefix directory (openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
• Add the ability to ignore USBs (See here for details)
• Change drive listing to always list in increasing order of size
• Update exceptions needed by Red Hat and derivatives for the 9.x releases
• Update UEFI:NTFS drivers to latest
• Reassign a letter for drives written in DD mode that don't have an ESP (e.g. CoreELEC)
• Fix Windows refusing to mount Linux MBR partitions on FIXED drives
• Fix support for multiextent files when Joliet is in use

Note: This is BETA software. If you think you found a problem specific to this release, please REPORT IT.

• 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.
• Add support for distros using a nonstandard GRUB 2.0 prefix directory (openSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
• Add the ability to ignore USBs (See here for details)
• Change drive listing to always list in increasing order of size
• Update exceptions needed by Red Hat and derivatives for the 9.x releases
• Update UEFI:NTFS drivers to latest
• Reassign a letter for drives written in DD mode that don't have an ESP (e.g. CoreELEC)
• Fix Windows refusing to mount Linux MBR partitions on FIXED drives

• Fix DLL sideloading vulnerabilities (#1838, #1877)
• Fix ISO → ESP creation when running on Windows 11 (#1855)
• Fix an issue when detecting network connectivity when the DHCP service is disabled (#1801)
• 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 (#1866)
• Other internal fixes and improvements

• Fix DLL sideloading vulnerabilities (#1838, #1877)
• Fix ISO → ESP creation when running on Windows 11 (#1855)
• Fix an issue when detecting network connectivity when the DHCP service is disabled (#1801)
• 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 (#1866)
• Other internal fixes and improvements

• Fix MBR not being properly cleared
• Fix commandline hogger not being deleted on exit
• Improve ReFS handling for platforms that support it
• Update UEFI:NTFS to latest and remove Secure Boot notice since this version is Secure Boot signed
• Update Grub4DOS to latest

• Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.2+ and derivatives [#1777]
• Fix BIOS boot support for Arch derivatives
• Fix removal of some boot entries for Ubuntu derivatives
• Fix log not being saved on exit
• Add Windows 11 "Extended" installation support (Disables TPM/Secure Boot/RAM requirements)
• Add UEFI Shell ISO downloads (retroactively applied through FIDO)
• Add support for Intel NUC card readers
• Improve Windows 11 support [#1779]
• Improve Windows version reporting
• Speed up clearing of MBR/GPT

• Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.2+ and derivatives [#1777]
• Fix BIOS boot support for Arch derivatives
• Fix removal of some boot entries for Ubuntu derivatives
• Fix log not being saved on exit
• Add Windows 11 "Extended" installation support (Disables TPM/Secure Boot/RAM requirements)
• Add UEFI Shell ISO downloads (retroactively applied through FIDO)
• Add support for Intel NUC card readers
• Improve Windows 11 support [#1779]
• Improve Windows version reporting
• Speed up clearing of MBR/GPT

• Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.2+ and derivatives [#1777]
• Fix BIOS boot support for Arch derivatives
• Fix removal of some boot entries for Ubuntu derivatives
• Fix log not being saved on exit
• Add support for Intel NUC card readers
• Improve Windows version reporting
• Improve Windows 11 support [#1779]
• Speed up clearing of MBR/GPT

• Update GRUB to version 2.06
• Add support for .vtsi files (Ventoy Sparse Image, courtesy of @ventoy)
• Add workaround for openSUSE Live ISOs
• Move default app directory to %LocalAppData%\Rufus\ and always save a log there on exit
• Fix AppStore version of Rufus not being able to store downloaded files [#1744]
• Fix failure to open Syslinux/GRUB files when Rufus is located at the root of a drive [#1747, #1761]
• Prevent the creation of System Volume Information on ESPs written in DD mode
• Prevent drive letter assignation to the UEFI:NTFS partition [pbatard/uefi-ntfs#25]
• Prevent persistent partition creation errors due to size
• Enhance safety checks before running the Fido ISO download script
• Other internal fixes and improvements [#1727, etc]