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1 o Version 3.13 (2020.11.20) 2 Add a cheat mode (Alt-M) to accept disk images without a Boot Marker 3 Add marquee operation progress to the taskbar icon 4 Add zeroing/image writing progress to the log 5 Switch to using 0x55 and 0xAA instead of 0x00 and 0xFF for low pass badblock check 6 Switch to using fake/manufacturer units when computing the default label 7 Fix overnumerous write retries on error when writing a disk image 8 Work around Windows' abysmal handling of removable drives that contain an ESP 9 Improve mounting/unmounting of volumes 10 Update UEFI:NTFS file system drivers to version 1.7 11 Other internal fixes and improvements (VDS, error reporting, etc.) 12 13 o Version 3.12 (2020.10.14) 14 Add optional SHA-512 digest algorithm (Alt-H) 15 Add a cheat mode (Alt +/-) to increase/decrease application priority 16 Enable direct provision of install.wim/install.esd for Windows To Go 17 Move Windows To Go ESP to the beginning of the drive, on systems that allow it 18 Enforce a minimum volume size of 256 MB for ext2/ext3 partitions 19 Speed up the scanning of ISOs with lots of Rock Ridge deep directory entries 20 Fix detection of GRUB version and update embedded GRUB for Ubuntu 20.10 support 21 Fix user interface labels for accessibility 22 Work around a Windows bug where the wrong drive letter may be returned 23 24 o Version 3.11 (2020.06.18) 25 Add Rock Ridge deep directory support 26 Add an option to write small ISOs to an ESP (GPT only) 27 Add a cheat mode (Ctrl-SELECT) to extract content from an additional zip archive on top of the ISO 28 Add a cheat mode (Alt-G) to disable Virtual Hard Disk listing 29 Add a cheat mode (Alt-P) to toggle a GPT ESP to Basic Data (Windows 10 only) 30 Fix improper x86 32-bit NTFS driver being used for UEFI:NTFS 31 Improve UEFI:NTFS compatibility with older UEFI firmwares 32 Improve startup time by running the ISO download feature check in the background 33 Remove Ubuntu's splash screen for persistent UEFI drives 34 Enable ASLR for the Rufus executable 35 36 o Version 3.10 (2020.04.22) 37 Improve support for Ubuntu 20.04 38 Improve detection of FIXED drives with no mounted partitions 39 Improve extfs formatting (courtesy of Marcos Mello) 40 Update UEFI:NTFS file system drivers to v1.5 41 Fix progress not being updated when using the German localization 42 Fix primary GPT being overwritten when adding the protective MBR message 43 Fix a regression with lousy security solutions that prevent the creation of an 'autorun.inf' 44 Fix an assert during FreeDOS drive creation when the Windows system locale is set to UTF-8 45 Fix invalid label errors when using a non-Western locale 46 47 o Version 3.9 (2020.02.29) 48 Add exFAT support when creating blank UEFI:NTFS drives [EXPERIMENTAL] 49 Fix ext2/ext3 corruption for partitions larger than 4 GB 50 Fix early boot files not being usable on compressed NTFS partitions 51 Fix writing of compressed streams that don't end on sector boundary 52 Fix percent not being displayed on slow format 53 Improve file preallocation and speed up ISO extraction (courtesy of Mattiwatti) 54 Improve ext2/ext3 formatting speed 55 Improve protective MBR message for GPT partitioned drives 56 Improve reporting of Syslinux/GRUB download errors 57 Improve reporting of partition types and of Windows' version 58 Report the usage of UDF symbolic links 59 Update embedded Syslinux to 6.04-pre1 60 61 o Version 3.8 (2019.09.16) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 62 Fix regression where some ISOs (Debian) would produce a Syslinux error when booted in BIOS mode 63 Fix potential 0xC0030057 errors when trying to create a persistent partitions on a non-FIXED drive 64 65 o Version 3.7 (2019.09.09) 66 Finalize persistent partition support for Debian and Ubuntu [EXPERIMENTAL]: 67 - Debian with persistence should work out of the box with any recent "Debian Live" ISO. 68 - Ubuntu with persistence should also work *IF* using a post 2019.08.01 ISO. Note that, 69 because of bug #1489855, trying to use persistence with Ubuntu ISOs that were released 70 before August 2019 will only result in rescue mode during boot - You have been warned! 71 - Other distros may work with persistence as long as they use a Debian-like or Ubuntu-like 72 method, and, in the case of Ubuntu-like, if they use casper with the #1489855 bugfix. 73 - Persistence and ext formatting support should still be considered EXPERIMENTAL at this stage. 74 Add cheat mode (<Alt>) to switch between percent/speed/ETA on *some* operations [EXPERIMENTAL] 75 Report SuperSpeed+ devices in the log (Come on USB-IF, just add "Ludicrous Speed" already!) 76 Fix UI checkboxes (Extended label, Fixes for old BIOSes) being cleared on START 77 Fix "Can't mount GUID volume" regression when creating Windows To Go drives 78 Fix "Volume label is invalid" error with empty labels on Windows 7 79 Fix stale progress bar during standalone ext2/ext3 formatting 80 Fix an extraction failure with R-Drive Image bootable ISOs 81 Disable ISO mode for Pop_OS 82 Other cosmetic and internal improvements 83 84 o Version 3.6 (2019.07.18) 85 Add support for persistent partitions [EXPERIMENTAL] 86 (Note: The above won't work with Ubuntu until Ubuntu bug #1489855 is properly fixed) 87 Add a mode to use VDS when partitioning/formatting (Alt-V) [EXPERIMENTAL] 88 Add full extraction support for efi.img (Solus) 89 Fix listing of potentially blocking processes 90 Fix NTFS not being selectable when using Grub4DOS 91 Fix download script not being launched when the user name contains a space 92 Fix translated messages potentially being truncated (e.g. Thai) 93 Fix progress bar report for screen readers (Accessibility issue) 94 Fix a regression where Windows format prompts would not be suppressed 95 Improve(?) Windows To Go support by following Microsoft's recommended partition order 96 Don't enumerate Windows Sandbox VHDs 97 Disable ISO mode when Manjaro ISOHybrids are being used 98 Update embedded GRUB to version 2.04 99 100 o Version 3.5 (2019.03.28) 101 Add a feature to download official retail Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 ISOs 102 (Note: 'Check for updates' must be enabled for the above to be active) 103 Add Windows To Go support for MCT generated Windows ISOs 104 Add a notice about the 'WppRecorder.sys' Microsoft bug for Windows 10 1809 ISOs 105 Add a notice about trying to format a drive larger than 2 TB in MBR mode 106 Add a notice about Legacy boot when trying to boot UEFI-only media in Legacy mode 107 Report the full PID and command line of potentially blocking processes in the log 108 Fix a potential silent abort when the drive is in use 109 Fix 'Quick Format' option always being activated 110 Fix potential change of the selected file system after an ISO has been loaded 111 Fix Win7 x64 EFI bootloader not being extracted in dual BIOS+UEFI mode (Alt-E) 112 113 o Version 3.4 (2018.12.05) 114 Set the default image selection directory to Downloads\ instead of My Documents\ 115 Add ARM/ARM64 automatic update support 116 Improve UEFI:NTFS compatibility 117 Improve access issues by using VDS to delete all partitions 118 Update the .appx to include all architectures as well as request elevation 119 Fix broken detection of some EFI based images 120 Fix broken update check due to server switch 121 UI and accessibility fixes and improvements 122 123 o Version 3.3 (2018.09.17) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 124 Fix a regression when processing uncompressed bootable DD images 125 Fix Windows To Go drive creation for ARM64 Windows ISOs 126 127 o Version 3.2 (2018.09.11) 128 Add RSA-2048 signature validation on all the server downloads 129 Add "Fast zeroing" cheat mode (courtesy of René van der Zee) 130 Add support for XP/Server 2003 x64 ISOs (courtesy of Mattiwatti) 131 Improve ISO extraction performance by preallocating files (courtesy of Mattiwatti) 132 Improve bad blocks check algorithm (from suggestions by AL.Skywalker) 133 Fix progress not being displayed for Syslinux or GRUB downloads 134 Fix unwanted application close when cancelling an image scan 135 Fix an issue where FAT32 could still be selected for ISOs containing a >4GB file 136 137 o Version 3.1 (2018.06.19) 138 Fix extraction of ISO content for GRUB based ISOs (Manjaro, Kaspersky, etc.) 139 Fix text being truncated on some dialogs (mostly Russian and Thai) 140 Add detection & warning about the 'Controlled Folder Access' Windows 10 feature 141 Improve retry attempts for transient errors 142 Increase size of the ESP to 300MB, for Windows To Go drives partitioned as GPT 143 Update GRUB 2.0 and Grub4DOS to latest 144 Update libcdio to latest 145 146 o Version 3.0 (2018.05.29) 147 UI redesign to follow the flow of user operations (with thanks to Fahad Al-Riyami for the concept) 148 Drop XP and Vista platform support 149 Switch all downloads to SSL and use https://rufus.ie as the new base URL 150 Add ARM64 support for UEFI:NTFS 151 Fix delays when querying floppy drives during device enumeration 152 Improve support of efi.img files on Linux ISOs 153 Improve support for non-ISO9660 compliant openSUSE Leap ISOs 154 Improve translation support and remove manual positioning 155 Internal fixes and improvements 156 157 o Version 2.18 (2017.11.07) 158 Ensure that the same drive is reselected on device refresh 159 Add a cheat mode to cycle the USB port of currently selected device 160 Make lookup for updatable .cfg file more generic (e.g. ESET SysRescue) 161 Fix handling of multiextent ISOs (e.g. BlackArch Linux) 162 Fix propagation of image decompression errors 163 Update grub4dos to latest 164 165 IMPORTANT: THIS IS THE LAST RELEASE TO SUPPORT WINDOWS XP AND WINDOWS VISTA 166 SUBSEQUENT RUFUS RELEASES ARE *NO LONGER* COMPATIBLE WITH THESE PLATFORMS 167 168 o Version 2.17 (2017.09.12) 169 Add support for Debian 9 live ISOs in UEFI mode 170 Add support for Super Floppy Disk "partitioning" mode 171 Add support for more non-USB card readers 172 Strengthen download update checks, to prevent attack scenarios that leverage user unawareness 173 Fix an issue with Spanish translation prompts not displaying properly 174 Fix an issue with Windows To Go support on some non-official Windows ISOs 175 Fix an issue with log autoscrolling 176 Fix an issue when using A: or B: as drive letters 177 178 o Version 2.16 (2017.07.31) 179 Add an audiovisual cue on completion/error 180 Add a workaround for ISOs using nonstandard Rock Ridge extensions (looking at you Kali Linux!) 181 Notify user when an ISO is broken or truncated 182 Notify user if other processes are accessing the drive before format 183 List processes that are locking a drive on failure 184 Improve verbosity of the Windows To Go process 185 Other fixes and improvements 186 187 o Version 2.15 (2017.05.17) 188 Fix non-listing of drives that are opened for write access by another process 189 Report external processes that may be preventing disk access (in the log) 190 Improve Windows To Go support for Windows 10 Creators Update 191 Don't report an error on checkdisk failure 192 Update GRUB 2.0 and Grub4DOS to latest 193 Other fixes and improvements 194 195 o Version 2.14 (2017.04.10) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 196 Fix inability to create BIOS-bootable drives, in some circumstances, due to write sharing permissions 197 198 o Version 2.13 (2017.04.06) 199 Preserve 'GPT for UEFI' option if the user changed it before selecting an ISO 200 Fix unwanted notification sound when closing with the X button (#893) 201 Fix inability to restore the minimized application after a popup is displayed (#896) 202 Fix an issue when trying to install Syslinux/NTFS twice in a row (#904) 203 Work around Microsoft's inconsistent casing of device IDs during device enumeration 204 Work around Microsoft's aggressive locking of partitions in Windows 10 Creators Update (#883) 205 Restrict write sharing permissions when accessing a device 206 Update libcdio and GRUB 2.0 to latest 207 208 o Version 2.12 (2017.01.27) 209 Add Hebrew translation, courtesy of NSBuilder and פלוני אלמוני 210 Add a cheat mode (Alt-O) to create an ISO from the first optical media found 211 Enable target system selection for Windows To Go 212 Enable NTFS selection for Syslinux 6.x (EXPERIMENTAL) 213 Fix an issue that allowed BIOS target selection with pure UEFI images 214 Fix license display for RTL languages 215 Update Grub4DOS and FreeDOS to latest 216 Additional fixes and improvements 217 218 o Version 2.11 (2016.09.08) 219 Do not download BIOS related files unless BIOS boot is selected 220 Improve support for Arch Linux derivatives 221 Add a cheat mode to disable drive indexing (Alt-Q) on format 222 Fix handling of 'Super Floppy Disk' formatted drives 223 Fix handling of misleading short write reports, for drives larger than 1 TB 224 Fix an issue that enabled FAT32 file system selection on some Windows images 225 Fix broken UI font for XP users 226 Fix sanitizing of exFAT labels 227 228 o Version 2.10 (2016.07.20) 229 Add SHA-256 validation for downloaded files. You will now see an ✓ or ✗ in the log for relevant content 230 Add support for O2Micro PCI-E card readers 231 Add compressed NTFS support for UEFI:NTFS 232 Improve automatic closure of the Windows default format prompt 233 Improve support for Ubuntu (silence a benign warning), Springdale (use the actual label) and Antergos (Syslinux version detection) 234 Work around a Windows bug that can render a GPT disk inaccessible after cleanup (e.g. ChromeOS image) 235 Fix hash computation for content that isn't a multiple of 64 bytes (NB: This did not affect ISOs) 236 Fix Syslinux installation on some media, with huge thanks to 424778940z for the tests 237 Fix a corner case where settings could be altered after Start had been pressed, if a hotplug event also occurred 238 Additional fixes and improvements 239 240 o Version 2.9 (2016.05.17) 241 Add ARM support for UEFI:NTFS 242 Fix UEFI:NTFS support for HP and Gigabyte firmwares (with thanks to Rod Smith and linnaea) 243 Fix unwanted listing of some internal removable drives 244 Fix the resurgence of a possible Syslinux installation crash 245 Fix missing default cluster size default on exFAT for >32GB drives 246 Fix the non-removal of the commandline hogger in some corner cases 247 Use "modern" file selection dialog on Vista or later (if you can spot the difference, good for you...) 248 249 o Version 2.8 (2016.03.22) 250 Enable listing of non-USB card readers (EXPERIMENTAL) 251 Major speed improvement for checksum computation 252 Fix UI flicker during progress actualization 253 Fix computation of FAT size for Large FAT32 (with thanks to Ady) 254 Syslinux improvements 255 Update GRUB to 2.02~beta3 256 257 o Version 2.7 (2016.02.14) 258 Add Thai translation, courtesy of Sippapas Wangsri 259 Add Drag and Drop support, courtesy of SeymourApps 260 Add a retry for most write operations 261 Update UEFI:NTFS, ms-sys and Grub4DOS to latest 262 Dual sign Rufus with both SHA-1 and SHA-256 263 Fix 2nd line of SHA-256 being hidden on some platforms 264 Fix shutdown prevention issues 265 Additional fixes & translation updates 266 267 o Version 2.6 (2015.12.22) 268 Add Serbian (Latin) translation, courtesy of Ivan Strugar 269 Add a cheat mode to zero a device (Alt-Z) 270 Fix dual BIOS/UEFI mode not being disabled once enabled (Alt-E) 271 Fix a crash when Syslinux downloaded files are modified by a firewall 272 Fix FAT32 not being disabled for Windows ISOs in BIOS/CSM mode 273 Additional translation updates 274 275 o Version 2.5 (2015.10.26) 276 Add SHA-256 checksum verification 277 Add a cheat mode to disable exclusive USB drive locking (Alt-,) 278 Add digital signature check on update downloads 279 Add Azerbaijani translation, courtesy of Elvin Məlikov 280 Add Persian translation, courtesy of Seyed Zia Azimi (ziaa) 281 Fix an issue where the update settings dialog may not display properly 282 Report Windows build number in the log (Windows 8 or later) 283 Many localization improvements and fixes, especially for right-to-left languages 284 Additional translation updates 285 286 o Version 2.4 (2015.09.27) 287 Allow some settings and cheat modes to be persisted between sessions 288 Fix multiple issues with flash drive detection 289 Fix listing of drives that contain no media 290 Fix cheat mode to save the current USB to *uncompressed* VHD (Alt-V) 291 Fix an UI scaling issue with high DPI displays for non English languages 292 Update most of the translations 293 Additional cosmetic improvements 294 295 o Version 2.3 (2015.08.28) 296 Detect ISOHybrid images and ask users how they should be written 297 Add MD5/SHA1 checksum verification ('#' button on the status bar) 298 Add Zip decompression support for DD Images 299 Add a cheat mode to save the current USB to *uncompressed* VHD (Alt-V) 300 Add a cheat mode for ISO timestamp preservation (Alt-T) 301 Add a cheat mode for USB enumeration debugging (Alt-.) 302 Disable MS-DOS creation for Windows 10 or later (FreeDOS is still available) 303 Fix Windows To Go creation issues, and enable access to internal disks 304 Fix UEFI support for Fedora ISOs 305 Fix some USB enumeration issues 306 Other improvements and fixes, including translation updates 307 308 o Version 2.2 (2015.05.31) 309 Modernize the language selection button, courtesy of David Warner 310 Add keyboard accessibility, courtesy of David Warner 311 Add a clear indication of when UEFI-CSM is to be used 312 Fix an USB detection issue and add support for ASUS UASP "Turbo Mode" 313 Fix prevention of Windows shutdown when Rufus is idle 314 Improve UI on high DPI monitors 315 Update Grub4DOS to 0.4.6a [2015.05.18] 316 Other UI improvements and fixes, including translation updates 317 318 o Version 2.1 (2015.03.23) 319 Add 32 bit support to UEFI:NTFS boot 320 Add standalone UEFI:NTFS boot installation, in advanced mode 321 Add Vietnamese translation, courtesy of thanhtai2009 322 Disable support for ISOs that don't report their GRUB version (looking at you Kaspersky!) 323 Fix broken Windows UEFI installation when using GPT/NTFS 324 Fix creation of 32 bit UEFI Windows 10 installation flash drives 325 Other improvements 326 327 o Version 2.0 (2015.03.03) 328 Major UI improvements (improved font, new info field, no separate progress dialog, etc.) 329 Add support for Windows To Go (if Rufus is running on Windows 8 or later) 330 Add support for Grub4DOS and GRUB 2 based images (e.g. FreeNAS) 331 Add portable application support, through a 'rufus.ini' file 332 Add native decompression support for DD images (.Z, .gz, .lzma, .bz2 and .xz) 333 Add seamless UEFI boot of NTFS partitions, for Windows ISOs with large files (>4GB) 334 Add support for Windows multipart 'install.swm' 335 Add support for non Microsoft VHD drivers 336 Add Norwegian translation, courtesy of JED 337 Fix a crash on image selection when no device is present 338 Fix broken VHD support for non-English version of Windows 339 Fix write error for DD images that are not a multiple of the sector size 340 Fix broken Unicode support 341 Update embedded Syslinux to 6.03 342 Other improvements and fixes 343 344 o Version 1.4.12 (2014.11.09) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 345 Fix support for Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 346 Fix support for Debian 7.x 347 Fix default listing of Mushkin Ventura Ultra USB 3.0 drives 348 Fix Czech translation, courtesy of Jakub Moc 349 Update Windows version listing for Windows 10 350 351 o Version 1.4.11 (2014.11.04) 352 Add Czech translation, courtesy of Richard Kahl 353 Add Ukrainian translation, courtesy of VKS 354 Fix formatting of drives with a large sector size (2K, 4K) 355 Fix UEFI boot for Tails and other Syslinux/EFI based ISOs 356 Fix listing of devices when all 26 drive letters are in use 357 Add a minimize button and minor UI changes 358 Other improvements 359 360 o Version 1.4.10 (2014.08.15) 361 Fix a crash when scanning disk images with no USB drive plugged 362 Fix default detection of some OCZ flash drives 363 Improve Syslinux 6.x support (for Tails 1.x and other ISOs) 364 Improve disk image handling (refresh partitions, remount drive, etc.) 365 Other fixes and improvements 366 367 o Version 1.4.9 (2014.06.08) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 368 Fix listing of drives for Windows XP and Windows Vista (reported by Alex Andrews) 369 370 o Version 1.4.8 (2014.06.03) 371 Add KolibriOS ISO support 372 Add Arabic translation, courtesy of عمر الصمد 373 Add Croatian translation, courtesy of Dario Komar 374 Add Danish translation, courtesy of Jens Hansen 375 Add Latvian translation, courtesy of Aldis Tutins 376 Add Portuguese Brazilian translation, courtesy of Chateaubriand Vieira Moura 377 Allow the use of VHDs as DD image source (fixed disk/uncompressed only) 378 Report the detected USB speed in the log 379 Fix a long standing issue when launching Rufus using Far Manager 380 Fix support for pure UEFI bootable disk images 381 Fix detection for some Buffalo, Lacie, Samsung, Toshiba and Verbatim drives 382 Various other fixes and improvements 383 384 o Version 1.4.7 (2014.04.22) 385 Add VHD support as a target, courtesy of Scott 386 Add ReFS support (only for Windows 8.1 or later and only for fixed drives) 387 Add a cheat mode to force the use of DD image writing for dual ISOs 388 Add Japanese translation, courtesy of Chantella Jackson 389 Add Slovak translation, courtesy of martinco78 390 Add Swedish translation, courtesy of Sopor 391 Improve the display of filesizes when copying content 392 Fix FAT32 cluster transitions 393 Fix unpartitioned drives not always being listed 394 Fix bad blocks report 395 396 o Version 1.4.6 (2014.03.17) 397 Display USB size in the dropdown list 398 Add Bulgarian translation, courtesy of Krasimir Nevenov 399 Improve checkbox handling in the UI and fix UDF/exFAT formatting issues 400 Fix replacement of obsolete vesamenu.c32 (reported by Liang) 401 Fix an issue that could prevent the download of files from the Rufus website 402 Fix untimely libcdio messages when processing Rock-Ridge ISOs (such as Ubuntu) 403 Other fixes 404 405 o Version 1.4.5 (2014.02.27) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 406 Fix detection of fixed drives (reported by dominiquesb) 407 408 o Version 1.4.4 (2014.02.26) 409 Add *uncompressed* Disk Image support (FreeBSD, FreeNAS, etc.) 410 Add right-to-left language support 411 Add an alert when multiple partitions are about to be erased 412 Add (unofficial) NTFS Compression support 413 Add Finnish translation, courtesy of Riku Brander 414 Ignore failure on ISO autorun.inf creation, to keep dumb security applications happy 415 Improve hotplug detection 416 Improve Syslinux v5+ support (requires an internet connection to download extra files) 417 Fix support for latest gparted, ArchLinux, and other Syslinux v5+ based ISOs 418 Fix detection for Toshiba drives (again) 419 Fix UDF Unicode support 420 421 o Version 1.4.3 (2014.01.21) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 422 Fix format operation not starting on Windows XP (reported by ank91) 423 424 o Version 1.4.2 (2014.01.18) 425 Add USB Attached SCSI (UAS) support 426 Add ReactOS support 427 Add NTFS UEFI support, for targets that can support it 428 Add insertion detection for USB memory card readers 429 Add retry when writing ISO files... again 430 Add Chinese (Simplified) translation, courtesy of 佚名 431 Add Indonesian translation, courtesy of Abe Akatsuki 432 Add Malay translation, courtesy of Muhammad Aman 433 Add Portuguese (Portugal) translation, courtesy of Fernando Baptista 434 Speed up boot record cleanup, for slow drives 435 Improve initial locale detection 436 Save user selected locale between sessions 437 Always use English locale in the log, where possible 438 Fix detection for some SanDisk, Kingston, HP and Toshiba drives 439 Fix a potential issue with drive letter assignation 440 Various other fixes and improvements 441 442 o Version 1.4.1 (2013.12.05) [BUGFIX RELEASE] 443 Fix broken Syslinux support (reported by ank91) 444 Add Slovenian support, courtesy of Matej Horvat 445 446 o Version 1.4.0 (2013.12.02) 447 Add localization support, with native integration for the following languages: 448 - Chinese (Traditional), courtesy of 佚 449 - Dutch, courtesy of Roberto Pino 450 - French, courtesy of myself ("Je vais me gêner !") 451 - German, courtesy of Thilo Langbein 452 - Greek, courtesy of Konstantinos and Nikolaos Margaritis 453 - Hungarian, courtesy of georg1136 454 - Italian, courtesy of bovirus 455 - Korean, courtesy of 나두야간다 456 - Lithuanian, courtesy of Gintaras Venslovas 457 - Polish, courtesy of Piotr Halama 458 - Romanian, courtesy of Gîrlea Alexandru 459 - Russian, courtesy of Кирилл Иванов 460 - Spanish, courtesy of José Pineda 461 - Turkish, courtesy of Mehmetali Kuran 462 - More to come, more wanted! See http://rufus.akeo.ie/translations 463 Add "smart" detection of USB HDD vs USB Flash Drive 464 Add retry when writing ISO files 465 Add detection and display of VID:PID for the target device (in the log) 466 Updated Syslinux to v4.0.7 467 Fixed some issues with DOS localization 468 Fixed FAT32 formatting for large and GPT disks 469 Fixed support for Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, unofficial Windows and other ISOs 470 Various other fixes and improvements 471 472 o Version 1.3.4 (2013.07.15) 473 Syslinux v5 support (NEW) 474 UDF formatting support (NEW - Vista and later only) 475 More drive handling improvements, to avoid "Could not open media" errors 476 Fixed support for ISOs containing files larger than 4GB 477 Fixed elevation request for unprivileged users 478 Fixed download of c32 files into the application directory 479 Better compression algorithm for the executable 480 Other bug fixes and improvements (spelling, UI, etc.) 481 482 o Version 1.3.3 (2013.06.10) 483 Drive handling and hotplug detection overhaul 484 Add support for raw/unpartitioned drives 485 Add (limited) commandline support, to specify the ISO image to open 486 Add option to list fixed/unpartitioned drives, in the advanced options 487 Fix broken detection of unsupported ISO images 488 Don't assume C: to be the drive letter for DOS 489 Various other fixes and improvements 490 491 o Version 1.3.2 (2013.01.27) 492 Fix support for newer ArchLinux ISOs, that was removed in 1.3.1 493 Add support for UEFI boot, as well as GPT. What this means is that Rufus can 494 now produce UEFI bootable UFDs from EFI compatible ISOs, such as Windows 7 x64, 495 Windows 8, ArchLinux, etc. 496 The first partition is now always aligned to 1MB (unless advanced options are used) 497 Internal refactoring and fixes 498 499 o Version 1.3.1 (2013.01.09) 500 Fix Windows XP ISO support, that was broken in 1.3.0 501 Drop support for newer ArchLinux ISOs - this will be fixed in 1.3.2 502 Indicate which of FAT32 or Large FAT32 will be used as well as Partition Scheme 503 Various internal fixes 504 505 o Version 1.3.0 (2012.12.16) 506 FAT32 format support for >32GB drives 507 Based on fat32format from Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd: 508 http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm 509 Automated update check 510 Relax ISO9660 compliance for Arch Linux images 511 Add support for VMWare ESXi 5.1 ISO images 512 Update Syslinux to v4.0.6 and libcdio to v0.90 513 Miscellaneous UI improvements and fixes 514 515 o Version 1.2.0 (2012.06.04) 516 Single version of Rufus, that includes FreeDOS support always 517 Add a toggleable advanced options panel 518 Add bare Syslinux installation for (FAT partitions only) 519 Add taskbar progress (Windows 7 or later) 520 Integrate logging output in the application 521 Fixes unavailable boot option when an empty card reader is plugged (reported by TheHive) 522 Works around the use of non-ISO compliant LiveXP images (reported by TheHive) 523 Various other bugfixes and improvements 524 525 o Version 1.1.7 (2012.04.06): 526 Fixes wrong bootable disk ID introduced in 1.1.6 (reported by Jeff Byers) 527 Fixes support for minint WinPE 1.x images 528 529 o Version 1.1.6 (2012.03.27): 530 Add ISO support for Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows 2003 and BartPE 531 532 o Version 1.1.5 (2012.03.12): 533 Fixes detection of devices without friendly name (reported by rschiang) 534 Fixes support of WinPE/AIK ISO images (reported by Dmitry Sokolov) 535 Fixes no disk at launch with empty card readers (reported by ChrisR 536 Add download of vesamenu.c32 for ISOs that need it 537 538 o Version 1.1.4 (2012.03.03): 539 Fixes ISO support for directories with extended characters (reported by ChrisR) 540 Fixes bad blocks test issues (reported by steve6375) 541 Read extended labels from autorun.inf when present 542 Update FreeDOS files to latest versions 543 544 o Version 1.1.3 (2012.02.24): 545 Fixes an issue on XP when using Windows ISOs (reported by wimb) 546 Disable listing of fixed drives (eg. HDDs) 547 Add 'fake' USB drive detection during bad blocks check 548 549 o Version 1.1.2 (2012.02.22): 550 Fixes ISO support for Fedora, openSUSE and Hiren's Boot CD 551 Add icon and extended/international label support 552 553 o Version 1.1.1 (2012.02.16): 554 ISO image support (syslinux) - targeted at Linux installation ISOs 555 ISO fixes and UI improvements 556 557 o Version 1.1.0 (2012.02.08): 558 ISO image support (NTFS, bootmgr only - targeted at Windows installation ISOs) 559 560 o Version 1.0.7 (2012.02.02): 561 Fixes a detection issue on platforms with multiple optical drives (with thanks to ElGaton) 562 Add number of passes for bad blocks check 563 Improved locale selection for FreeDOS 564 565 o Version 1.0.6 (2012.01.03): 566 Log report when bad blocks are found 567 568 o Version 1.0.5 (2011.12.25): 569 Keyboard layout detection & support 570 571 o Version 1.0.4 (2011.12.16): 572 FreeDOS support 573 574 o Version 1.0.3 (2011.12.12): 575 First public release 576 Progress status improvements 577 Filtering of invalid cluster sizes 578 Disable Autoplay on Vista and later while the application is running 579 580 o Version 1.0.2 (2011.12.06): 581 Beta release 582 Support for bad blocks check 583 584 o Version 1.0.1 (2011.12.04): 585 Alpha release