Software Update: Rufus 2.3.709

Version 2.3 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 2.3

• Detect ISOHybrid images and ask users how they should be written
• Add MD5/SHA-1 image checksum verification (# button on the status bar)
• Add zip decompression support for DD Images
• Add a cheat mode to save the current USB to uncompressed VHD (Alt-V)
• Add a cheat mode for ISO timestamp preservation (Alt-T)
• Add a cheat mode for USB enumeration debugging (Alt-.)
• Disable MS-DOS creation for Windows 10 or later (FreeDOS is still available)
• Fix Windows To Go creation issues, and enable access to internal disks
• Fix UEFI support for Fedora ISOs
• Fix some USB enumeration issues
• Other improvements and fixes, including translation updates