Rufus 4.7.2231
Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! Oh, and Rufus is fast. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO (with honorable mention to WiNToBootic for managing to keep up). It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USBs from ISOs. A non-exhaustive list of Rufus supported ISOs is available here.It can be especially useful for cases where:
- you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.)
- you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed
- you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS
- you want to run a low-level utility
Rufus 4.7.2231 changelog:
- Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
- Add ztsd compression support for disk images
- Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
- Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
- Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
- Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
- Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
- Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
- Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (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