Rufus, a third-party tool for creating Windows and Linux installation media, was officially released today after about 1 week of Beta testing.
Rufus 3.21 mainly improves support for Windows, including upgraded drivers, fixing major bugs in NTFS and exFAT, optimizing the Windows user experience, better support for local accounts, and more.
The full Rufus 3.21 changelog is as follows.
- Allow providing any local account username in the Windows User Experience dialog
- Improved Windows version reporting from ISO/.wim
- Updated UEFI: NTFS, NTFS driver to v1.4; exFAT driver to v1.9
- Switch to non-standard GRUB for remote downloads (Fedora 37, OpenSUSE Live, GeckoLinux)
- Fix UEFI: NTFS partition in MBR mode not set to handle ISO for files larger than 4GB (UwUntu)
- Fix GRUB support for Arch and derivatives when using non-FAT-compliant labels (#2086)
- Fix bug detection for GRUB with non-standard prefixes
- Fix tab order not working in Windows UX dialogs
