Rufus 3.7

• Finalize persistent partition support for Debian and Ubuntu:
  • Debian with persistence should work out of the box with any recent Debian Live ISO.
  • Ubuntu with persistence should also work IF using a post 2019.08.01 ISO (such as daily-live)
    Note that, because of bug #1489855, trying to use persistence with Ubuntu ISOs that were released before August 2019 will only result in rescue mode during boot - You have been warned!
  • Other distros may work with persistence as long as they use a Debian-like or Ubuntu-like method, and, in the case of Ubuntu-like, if they use casper with the #1489855 bugfix.
• Add cheat mode (Alt) to switch between percent completed/transfer rate/time remaining on some operations [EXPERIMENTAL]
• Report SuperSpeed+ devices in the log (Come on USB-IF, just add "Ludicrous Speed" already!)
• Fix UI checkboxes (Extended label, Fixes for old BIOSes) being cleared on START
• Fix Can't mount GUID volume regression when creating Windows To Go drives [#1351]
• Fix Volume label is invalid error with empty labels on Windows 7 [#1352]
• Fix stale progress bar during standalone ext2/ext3 formatting
• Fix an extraction failure with R-Drive Image bootable ISOs
• Disable ISO mode for Pop_OS
• Other cosmetic and internal improvements

Rufus 3.6

• 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

Rufus 3.5

• 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)

Rufus 3.4

• 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]

Rufus 3.3

• 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]

Rufus 3.2

• 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

Rufus 3.1

• 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

Rufus 3.0

• 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

Rufus 2.18

• 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

Rufus 2.17

• 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]