Download Rufus 4.2

Version 4.2 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 4.2:

• Add detection and warning for UEFI revoked bootloaders (including ones revoked through SkuSiPolicy.p7b)
• Add ZIP64 support, to extract .zip images that are larger than 4 GB
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed VHDX image
• Add saving and restoring current drive to/from compressed FFU (Full Flash Update) image (experimental)
• Fix a crash when trying to open Windows ISOs, with the MinGW compiled x86 32-bit version
• Fix an issue where ISOs that contain a boot image with an ‘EFI’ label are not detected as bootable
• Increase the ISO → ESP limit for Debian 12 netinst images
• Ensure that the main partition size is aligned to the cluster size