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The Reliable USB Formatting Utility

v3.6

4 years ago
  • Add support for persistent partitions [EXPERIMENTAL]
    (Note: The above won't work with Ubuntu until Ubuntu bug #1489855 is properly fixed)
  • Add a mode to use VDS when partitioning/formatting (Alt-V) [EXPERIMENTAL]
  • Add full extraction support for efi.img (Solus)
  • Fix listing of potentially blocking processes
  • Fix NTFS not being selectable when using Grub4DOS
  • Fix download script not being launched when the user name contains a space
  • Fix translated messages potentially being truncated (e.g. Thai)
  • Fix progress bar report for screen readers (Accessibility issue)
  • Fix a regression where Windows format prompts would not be suppressed
  • Improve(?) Windows To Go support by following Microsoft's recommended partition order
  • Don't enumerate Windows Sandbox VHDs
  • Disable ISO mode when Manjaro ISOHybrids are being used
  • Update embedded GRUB to version 2.04

v3.5

5 years ago
  • Add a feature to download official retail Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 ISOs (Note: Check for updates must be enabled for this feature to be active)
  • Add Windows To Go support for MCT generated Windows ISOs
  • Add a notice about the WppRecorder.sys Microsoft bug for Windows 10 1809 ISOs
  • Add a notice about trying to format a drive larger than 2 TB in MBR mode
  • Add a notice about Legacy boot when trying to boot UEFI-only media in Legacy mode
  • Report the full PID and command line of potentially blocking processes in the log
  • Fix a potential silent abort when the drive is in use
  • Fix Quick Format option always being activated
  • Fix potential change of the selected file system after an ISO has been loaded
  • Fix Win7 x64 EFI bootloader not being extracted in dual BIOS+UEFI mode (Alt-E)

v3.4

5 years ago

  • Version 3.4 (2018.12.05)

    • Set the default image selection directory to Downloads\ instead of My Documents\
    • Add ARM/ARM64 automatic update support
    • Improve UEFI:NTFS compatibility [#1213]
    • Improve access issues by using VDS to delete all partitions
    • Update the .appx to include all architectures as well as request elevation
    • Fix broken detection of some EFI based images
    • Fix broken update check due to server switch
    • UI and accessibility fixes and improvements [#1211][#1215]

v3.3

5 years ago

  • Version 3.3 (2018.09.17) [BUGFIX RELEASE]

    • Fix a regression when processing uncompressed bootable DD images [#1206]
    • Fix Windows To Go drive creation for ARM64 Windows ISOs [#1111]

v3.2

5 years ago

  • Version 3.2 (2018.09.11)

    • Add RSA-2048 signature validation on all the server downloads [#1172]
    • Add "Fast zeroing" cheat mode (courtesy of René van der Zee) [#1174]
    • Add support for XP/Server 2003 x64 ISOs (courtesy of Mattiwatti) [#1167]
    • Improve ISO extraction performance by preallocating files (courtesy of Mattiwatti) [#1170]
    • Improve bad blocks check algorithm (from suggestions by AL.Skywalker)
    • Fix progress not being displayed for Syslinux or GRUB downloads
    • Fix unwanted application close when cancelling an image scan
    • Fix an issue where FAT32 could still be selected for ISOs containing a >4GB file

v3.1

5 years ago

  • Version 3.1 (2018.06.19)

    • Fix extraction of ISO content for GRUB based ISOs (Manjaro, Kaspersky, etc.) [#1145]
    • Fix text being truncated on some dialogs (mostly Russian and Thai)
    • Add detection & warning about the Controlled Folder Access Windows 10 feature
    • Improve retry attempts for transient errors
    • Increase size of the ESP to 300MB, for Windows To Go drives partitioned as GPT
    • Update GRUB 2.0 and Grub4DOS to latest
    • Update libcdio to latest

v3.0

5 years ago

  • Version 3.0 (2018.05.29)

    • UI redesign to follow the flow of user operations (with thanks to Fahad Al-Riyami for the concept) [#117]
    • Drop XP and Vista platform support
    • Switch all downloads to SSL and use https://rufus.ie as the new base URL
    • Add ARM64 support for UEFI:NTFS
    • Fix delays when querying floppy drives during device enumeration
    • Improve support of efi.img files on Linux ISOs
    • Improve support for non-ISO9660 compliant openSUSE Leap ISOs [#1136]
    • Improve translation support and remove manual positioning
    • Internal fixes and improvements

v2.18

5 years ago

  • Version 2.18 (2017.11.07)

    • Ensure that the same drive is reselected on device refresh
    • Add a cheat mode to cycle the USB port of currently selected device
    • Make lookup for updatable .cfg file more generic (e.g. ESET SysRescue) [#1013]
    • Fix handling of multiextent ISOs (e.g. BlackArch Linux) [#1007]
    • Fix propagation of image decompression errors [#1040]
    • Update grub4dos to latest

    IMPORTANT: THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE TO SUPPORT WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS VISTA SUBSEQUENT RUFUS RELEASES ARE NO LONGER COMPATIBLE WITH THESE PLATFORMS

v2.17

5 years ago

  • Version 2.17 (2017.09.12)

    • Add support for Debian 9 live ISOs in UEFI mode
    • Add support for Super Floppy Disk "partitioning" mode
    • Add support for more non-USB card readers [#994] [#998]
    • Strengthen download update checks, to prevent attack scenarios that leverage user unawareness [#1009]
    • Fix an issue with Spanish translation prompts not displaying properly
    • Fix an issue with Windows To Go support on some non-official Windows ISOs [#991]
    • Fix an issue with log autoscrolling
    • Fix an issue when using A: or B: as drive letters [#1016]

v2.16

5 years ago

  • Version 2.16 (2017.07.31)

    • Add an audiovisual cue on completion/error [#973]
    • Add a workaround for ISOs using nonstandard Rock Ridge extensions (looking at you Kali Linux!)
    • Notify user when an ISO is broken or truncated [#963]
    • Notify user if other processes are accessing the drive before format [#773]
    • List processes that are locking a drive on failure
    • Improve verbosity of the Windows To Go process
    • Other fixes and improvements