Version 2.10 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. Incidentally, there are a large number of tools with which this can be done, 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 2.10
- Add SHA-256 validation for downloaded files. You will now see an ✓ or ✗ in the log for relevant content
- Add support for O2Micro PCI-E card readers
- Add compressed NTFS support for UEFI:NTFS
- Improve automatic closure of the Windows default format prompt
- Improve support for Ubuntu (silence a benign warning), Springdale (use the actual label) and Antergos (Syslinux version detection)
- Work around a Windows bug that can render a GPT disk inaccessible after cleanup (eg ChromeOS image)
- Fix hash computation for content that isn’t a multiple of 64 bytes (NB: This did not affect ISOs)
- Fix Syslinux installation on some media, with huge thanks to 424778940z for the tests
- Fix a corner case where settings could be altered after Start had been pressed, if a hotplug event also occurred
- Additional fixes and improvements
| Version number | 2.10.973 |
| Release status | Final |
| Operating systems | Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 10 |
| Website | Rufus |
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| File size |
915.00kB |
| License type | Freeware |