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Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, notation twigs, etc.

• Official site: https://rufus.ie

• Source Code: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

• ChangeLog: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt

Jottings: • Add a mechanism among detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository • Merge ztsd compression shelter for plate images • Add a new exclusion facet in the settings, to disregard disks with a specific GPT GUID • Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too tremendous in the direction of fit the target drive • Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus off a different directory • Patch FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction • Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks a lot to @EmperialX) • Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10) • Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error depiction (courtesy of @Wack0) • Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells • Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are *NOT* affected by this) • Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest

Details: Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3, Spawn FreeDOS pre-bootable USB handles, Create bootable drives from launchable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.), Create bootable moves from bootable disk renders, including compressed ones, Create BIOS whether UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS, Create 'Windows To Go' drives, Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs how don't have TPM or Secure Boot, Create persistent Linux elements, Create VHD/DD images on the subject of the selected drive, Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image, Perform bad blocks checks, together with detection of "fake" flash drives, Download official Innovative company Windows shopping experience ISOs, Receive UEFI Shell ISOs