v0.3.0

bufusb v0.3.0

What's Changed:

• Counterfeit drive detection: before flashing, bufusb writes and reads back test blocks across the drive and refuses fake drives that report more space than they actually have

• Error messages now show the actual reason a tool failed (e.g. Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': Input/output error) instead of its last line of boilerplate, and the "Is ntfs3 or ntfs-3g available?" hint only appears when the NTFS driver is missing

• The progress bar now stops where it was when a flash fails, with the error printed underneath it

• Running bufusb with no arguments prints the help text, and missing --source/--target gives a normal usage error. Neither creates a log file anymore

• "Logging to: …" is printed once instead of twice when bufusb relaunches itself elevated

• install.sh and the README now use the bufusb name everywhere

• AUR: the package's test step reuses the release build instead of compiling everything a second time

v0.2.6

bufusb - v0.2.6

What's changed

• rework the logging system (more info in commit 03f141c)
• fix some configs (cargo, github actions builds, etc)
• fix the PKGBUILD downloading from an incorrect tag

v0.2.5

bufusb - v0.2.5

What's changed:

• Harden Windows volume locking
• use dd mode by default with hybrid images
• fix docs

v0.2.4

v0.2.4

What's Changed:

• dd mode now unmounts/locks the target first.
• dd mode could silently corrupt images
• NTFS fallback: now refuses to format if the kernel didn't pick up the new partition table
• Copy mode: a failed final flush is no longer ignored
• Linux ARM64: dd mode works now. It failed on every run before (wrong O_DIRECT value)
• Windows: paths with spaces work when elevating
• Windows: ISO paths with apostrophes (including curly ones) no longer break mounting
• Windows: more reliable ISO mounting on slow machines (or while Defender is scanning)
• Linux/macOS: /dev/disk/by-id/... style targets now work properly
• Copy mode: sticks that previously had an ISO written with dd no longer show up as iso9660 after flashing
• --offset values that aren't sector-aligned are rejected
• A relative --log-path now works after elevation on Windows

v0.2.3

bufusb v0.2.3

What's changed:

• We now truncate long labels once, for both FAT32 and the GPT name
• Pass the live ISO mount into ntfs::run instead of remounting

IMPORTANT NOTE
Binary name in the future will be 'bufusb' for 2 reasons (IT'S STILL buf, only for this release, future releases will have the name changed)

1. For the GUI, I want to shell out to the CLI to make my life much much easier (In other words, I don't want to fully rewrite libbuf to fit a GUI's semantics)
2. When shelling out, I realized it could possibly conflict with protobuf's buf. And for people with that protobuf stuff installed, they could have problems too. Telling them to make an alias specifically for this is cringe

v0.2.2

buf v0.2.2

What's Changed

• Added a --label flag to... You guessed it, specify a label for the drive when flashing (only copy mode)

• Fixed --list flag not working on windows when not elevated

• Fixed BLKRRPART errors; The constant was wrong (was 0x125d, now 0x125f, reddit lied to me)

• Fail on the first device error rather than the thousandth

• No longer assumes sudo (now checks doas, run0, or pkexec)

• Allow extended DASD IO on the windows target handle

v0.2.1

buf v0.2.1

What's New:

• Skips symlinked directories to avoid self referential ones recursing into itself

v0.2.0

buf v0.2.0

What's Changed:

• Added copy mode: writes a GPT + FAT32 ESP and copies the ISO tree. Fixes booting non-hybrid images
• auto mode detection, falls back to dd, override with --mode flag
• UEFI:NTFS fallback for files over FAT32's 4GB cap for individual files (Thanks, Pete)

v0.1.3

buf Version 0.1.3

Changes:

• Added a --log-path flag to allow users to choose the name and path of the file
• Updated docs/docs.md
• Added license headers in --version flag
• Added documentation in the --help flag.

v0.1.2

Version 0.1.2

Changes:

• (Linux - CLI) Fix logs not saving to HOME directory when elevated