Rufus 4.5.2180 Stable Version Released with New Features and Fixes

TapTechNews May 23rd news, after more than half a month of testing, the stable version of Rufus 4.5.2180 was officially released today. The new version mainly uses the MD5 algorithm checksum method to verify the Hash of the runtime UEFI bootloader, and moves the verification operation from after creating the boot disk to performing self-verification every time it is started.

In terms of UEFI, the UEFI:NTFS universal bootloader (which can be UEFI-booted on NTFS or exFAT partitions) has been upgraded to use the NTFS-3G driver, and GRUB (Grand Unified Bootloader) has been updated to version 2.12. 

The new version also fixes issues related to the VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) and VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk v2) file formats, including truncation issues and some error messages. In addition, the new version adds a solution to ISO copy-related errors.

TapTechNews attaches the following main contents of the update:

Add a new advanced option to perform Runtime UEFI media verification for the appropriate image (Windows, most Linux)

Move the Use Rufus MBR advanced option to the cheat mode

Fix the truncation problem of the VHDX image, and the benign error message when writing to VHD/VHDX

Fix the support for Linux persistence in some configurations (Mint, Ubuntu 24.04)

Fix multiple potential vulnerabilities

Internal GRUB updated to version 2.12

Update UEFI:NTFS to the latest version (now always use the ntfs-3g driver instead of the buggy AMINTFS driver)

Increase the buffer size when copying ISO files to minimize the errors of the AMINTFS UEFI driver

Improve partition creation handling

Don't show the WUE dialog box when unattend.xml already exists