Software Update: Rufus 3.11

Version 3.11 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. By the way, 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. Since version 3.0, the program has been given a slightly different look and support for Windows XP and Vista has been dropped. In version 3.11 the following changes and improvements have been made:

Changes in version 3.11:

• Add Rock Ridge deep directory support
• Add an option to write small ISOs to an ESP (GPT only)
• Add a cheat mode (Ctrl+Select) to extract content from an additional zip archive on top of the ISO
• Add a cheat mode (Alt+G) to disable Virtual Hard Disk listing
• Add a cheat mode (Alt+P) to toggle a GPT ESP to Basic Data (Windows 10 only)
• Fix improper x86 32-bit NTFS driver being used for UEFI:NTFS
• Improve UEFI:NTFS compatibility with older UEFI firmwares
• Improve startup time by running the ISO download feature check in the background
• Remove Ubuntu’s splash screen for persistent UEFI drives
• Enable ASLR for the Rufus executable