Rufus 4.8 (Build 2253)

* Also update x64 DBX to latest (since Microsoft has to update the DBX the very same day we pushed a new release)

Author: pbatard

ChangeLog.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-o Version 4.8 (2025.06.??)
+o Version 4.8 (2025.06.11)
     Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing:
       - Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs
       - Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won't do miracles if you have a crap drive)
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ o Version 4.8 (2025.06.??)
     Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status
     Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive
     Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version
+    Fix commandline parameters not being forwared to original Windows setup.exe
 
 o Version 4.7 (2025.04.09)
     Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository

res/appstore/listing/listing.csv

@@ -114,18 +114,17 @@
 • Trang web chính thức: https://rufus.ie
 • Mã nguồn: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus
 • Nhật ký thay đổi: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt"
-"ReleaseNotes","3","Text","• Add a mechanism to detect and download updated DBXs from the official UEFI repository
-• Add ztsd compression support for disk images
-• Add a new exclusion feature in the settings, to ignore disks with a specific GPT GUID
-• Improve detection for compressed VHD images that are too large to fit the target drive
-• Fix commandline hogger not being deleted when running Rufus from a different directory
-• Fix FAT filenames from embedded images being potentially truncated on image extraction
-• Fix a side-loading vulnerability [CVE-2025-26624] with cfgmgr32.dll (with thanks to @EmperialX)
-• Fix UI memory leaks (courtesy of @ozone10)
-• Fall back to user/system default locale when getting error description (courtesy of @Wack0)
-• Don't run the commandline hogger on POSIX shells
-• Drop ARM 32-bit builds (Note that ARM 64-bit builds are *NOT* affected by this)
-• Update FreeDOS and Grub4DOS to latest",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
+"ReleaseNotes","3","Text","• Switch to wimlib for all WIM image processing:
+  - Greatly speeds up image analysis when opening Windows ISOs
+  - Can speed up Windows To Go drive creation (But won't do miracles if you have a crap drive)
+  - Might help with Parallels limitations on Mac (But Rufus on Parallels is still UNSUPPORTED)
+  - Enables the splitting of >4GB files with Alt-E (But still WAY SLOWER than using UEFI:NTFS)
+• Switch to using Visual Studio binaries everywhere, due to MinGW DLL delay-loading limitations
+• Add more exceptions for Linux ISOs that restrict themselves to DD mode (Nobara, openSUSE, ...)
+• Improve reporting of UEFI bootloaders in the log, with info on the Secure Boot status
+• Fix an issue with size limitations when writing an uncompressed VHD back to the same drive
+• Fix a crash when opening the log with the 32-bit MinGW compiled version
+• Fix commandline parameters not being forwared to original Windows setup.exe",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 "Title","4","Text","Rufus",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 "ShortTitle","5","Text","",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
 "SortTitle","6","Text","",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

res/dbx/amd64_DBXUpdate.bin

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ struct {
 	uint64_t timestamp;
 } dbx_info[] = {
 	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/x86/DBXUpdate.bin", 1740428422 },
-	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/amd64/DBXUpdate.bin", 1740428422 },
+	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/amd64/DBXUpdate.bin", 1749602743 },
 	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/arm/DBXUpdate.bin", 1740428422 },
 	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/arm64/DBXUpdate.bin", 1740428422 },
 	{ "https://api.github.com/repos/microsoft/secureboot_objects/contents/PostSignedObjects/DBX/ia64/DBXUpdate.bin", 0 },

res/dbx/dbx_info.h

@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@ and can be validated to not have been tampered through SHA-256 validation (Since
 produce SHA-256 hashes during the build process per:
 https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/master/.github/workflows/setup.yml).
 
-Per the https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/actions/runs/11195726475 GitHub Actions
+Per the https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/actions/runs/15539519674 GitHub Actions
 workflow run, the SHA-256 for the executables (before signature was applied) were:
-* 4e99f49b456781c92d2010a626706557df69334c6fc71ac129625f41fa311dd8 *./setup_x64.exe
-* a0d7dea2228415eb5afe34419a31eeda90f9b51338f47bc8a5ef591054277f4b *./setup_arm64.exe
+* bea9a68e73b53820ea9c3fcdda70b1615f7453ad483dd3aa06e0385fd28f004e *./setup_x64.exe
+* f024aed61b1f215a3b684bbb2fd176893fc61f92243708a0d9334671df1cdb61 *./setup_arm64.exe
 
 You will also find the VirusTotal reports for the current signed executable at:
-* https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/a74dbfc0e2a5b2e3fd4ad3f9fdaea0060c5d29a16151b9a570a9bd653db966a7/detection
-* https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/629fdda27e200ec98703a7606ca4e2d0e44c578341779e4d5c447d45fc860c69/detection
+* https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/41037f63f20f5984e5ca1dab12c033d795966e80bd8b76a39c1dc42a3dc33594/detection
+* https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/cc9cb4f4080db352d9a82ef926fc290d62a8d67a45a5557f46fa924a7b9bdbe3/detection

res/setup/readme.txt

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ LANGUAGE LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_NEUTRAL
 IDD_DIALOG DIALOGEX 12, 12, 232, 326
 STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_CENTER | WS_MINIMIZEBOX | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU
 EXSTYLE WS_EX_ACCEPTFILES
-CAPTION "Rufus 4.8.2252"
+CAPTION "Rufus 4.8.2253"
 FONT 9, "Segoe UI Symbol", 400, 0, 0x0
 BEGIN
     LTEXT           "Drive Properties",IDS_DRIVE_PROPERTIES_TXT,8,6,53,12,NOT WS_GROUP
@@ -407,8 +407,8 @@ END
 //
 
 VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
- FILEVERSION 4,8,2252,0
- PRODUCTVERSION 4,8,2252,0
+ FILEVERSION 4,8,2253,0
+ PRODUCTVERSION 4,8,2253,0
  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
 #ifdef _DEBUG
  FILEFLAGS 0x1L
@@ -426,13 +426,13 @@ BEGIN
             VALUE "Comments", "https://rufus.ie"
             VALUE "CompanyName", "Akeo Consulting"
             VALUE "FileDescription", "Rufus"
-            VALUE "FileVersion", "4.8.2252"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "4.8.2253"
             VALUE "InternalName", "Rufus"
             VALUE "LegalCopyright", "� 2011-2025 Pete Batard (GPL v3)"
             VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html"
             VALUE "OriginalFilename", "rufus-4.8.exe"
             VALUE "ProductName", "Rufus"
-            VALUE "ProductVersion", "4.8.2252"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "4.8.2253"
         END
     END
     BLOCK "VarFileInfo"