Kiln 0.1.0

The first release of Kiln, a USB flasher for Linux, Windows and macOS.

• Write any bootable image to a USB stick or SD card, then read it back to check every byte.
• Build Windows 11 install sticks from a Windows ISO, with optional setup tweaks: skip the TPM, Secure Boot and RAM checks, set up a local account, skip the Microsoft account, turn off BitLocker, data collection, OneDrive, Copilot and ads.
• Make Ventoy disks that boot any ISO file you copy onto them.
• Only USB drives, SD cards and removable drives are ever offered. The disks your system runs from, internal disks and the drive the image is on are always left out.

Kiln is early software. It erases whole drives, so check the drive name before you write.

Downloads

System	File
Windows 10 (1903) or newer, 64-bit	Kiln-0.1.0-x64-setup.exe (installer) or Kiln-0.1.0-x64.zip (portable)
macOS 14.4 or newer, Apple silicon	Kiln-0.1.0-arm64.dmg
Arch Linux, CachyOS	kiln-0.1.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Debian 13, Ubuntu 26.04	kiln_0.1.0_amd64.deb
Fedora 44	kiln-0.1.0-1.x86_64.rpm

Kiln is not code-signed yet:

• Windows: SmartScreen warns before the first start. Choose "More info", then "Run anyway".
• macOS: macOS refuses the first start. Open System Settings > Privacy & Security and choose "Open Anyway" for Kiln.

SHA256SUMS lists the checksum of every file. Installation steps for each system are in the README.

Source code

Kiln is free software under the GNU GPL v3 or later. Besides the source of this release, the release carries the unmodified source archives of the GPL and LGPL components built into Kiln: libcdio, wimlib, hivex, GNU libiconv and Ventoy.