Download Rufus 4.0

Version 4.0 of Rufus has been released. Rufus is a Windows program that can be used to create self-starting USB sticks. Useful, for example, to install an operating system, which is faster from a USB stick than from a CD or DVD, to update the BIOS or to access a system that no longer wants to start. There are a large number of tools that can be used to do this, but Rufus claims to be one of the fastest of its kind. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Changes in version 4.0.2035:

• Fix persistent partition not working with Ubuntu 23.04
• Fix out of range pointer error with Ubuntu 23.04 when booting into BIOS mode
• Fix boot freeze with Ubuntu Studio when Secure Boot is enabled
• Fix incorrect architecture detection when checking for updates
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when processing GRUB bootloaders
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when enumerating processes that contain a % sign
• Fix a Windows Store application crash when using German localization

Note that the major version was bumped on account of:

• New versions of Rufus requiring Windows 8 or later
• New versions of Rufus defaulting to a 64-bit executable
• Old versions of Rufus potentially not being able to update properly