PackageIdentifier: Rufus.Rufus
PackageVersion: 4.15
Moniker: rufus
Documentations:
- DocumentLabel: FAQ
  DocumentUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/FAQ
- DocumentLabel: Wiki
  DocumentUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki
Tags:
- operating-system-booting
- os-booting
- formatting
- foss
- uefi
- unetbootin
- utility
- bootable-drives
- windows-to-go
PackageLocale: en-US
Author: Pete Batard
Copyright: "Copyright \xA9 2011-2026 Pete Batard"
Description: 'Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives.


  Features:

  - Format USB, flash card and virtual drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS/ext2/ext3

  - Create DOS bootable USB drives using FreeDOS or MS-DOS

  - Create BIOS or UEFI bootable drives, including UEFI bootable NTFS

  - Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, etc.)

  - Create bootable drives from bootable disk images, including compressed ones

  - Create Windows 11 installation drives for PCs that don''t have TPM or Secure Boot

  - Create Windows To Go drives

  - Create VHD/DD, VHDX and FFU images of an existing drive

  - Create persistent Linux partitions

  - Compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512 checksums of the selected image

  - Perform runtime validation of UEFI bootable media

  - Improve Windows installation experience by automatically setting up OOBE parameters
  (local account, privacy options, etc.)

  - Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives

  - Download official Microsoft Windows 8, Windows 10 or Windows 11 retail ISOs

  - Download UEFI Shell ISOs

  - Modern and familiar UI, with 38 languages natively supported

  - Small footprint. No installation required.

  - Portable. Secure Boot compatible.'
ShortDescription: A utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives,
  such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.
License: GPL-3.0-or-later
LicenseUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/blob/HEAD/LICENSE.txt
PackageName: Rufus
PackageUrl: https://rufus.ie/
Publisher: pbatard
PublisherSupportUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/issues
PublisherUrl: https://github.com/pbatard
ReleaseNotes: '- Add RISC-V 64 support to UEFI:NTFS

  - Improve the guards for using the "silent" Windows installation option

  - Improve the ability to cancel during write retries

  - Improve progress reporting for compressed image extraction

  - Fix unrestricted XML entity expansion and integer overflow in ezxml parser (courtesy
  of @esadowski4) [GHSA-55r2-34wg-8mv9]

  - Fix "silent" Windows installation failing at 75% in most cases [#2960]

  - Fix a crash during boot when using UEFI:NTFS on Snapdragon X based ARM64 platforms
  [#2934]

  - Fix first WUE option always being checked by default [#2965]

  - Fix an infinite loop when using Windows ISOs that contain multiple WIMs

  - Fix "Enable runtime UEFI media validation" checkbox not always being properly
  enabled

  - Other WUE improvements/fixes for OneDrive removal and username validation (with
  thanks to @christian8641) [#2984, #2991]'
ReleaseNotesUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/tag/v4.15
Installers:
- Architecture: x64
  InstallerType: portable
  InstallerSha256: 84c8a437f8af89257524478489e5c85f1edf25f761d299e2bcde46ac0afbe106
  InstallerUrl: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/download/v4.15/rufus-4.15.exe
  ReleaseDate: 2026-06-30
  InstallerAbortsTerminal: false
  InstallLocationRequired: false
  RequireExplicitUpgrade: false
  DisplayInstallWarnings: false
  DownloadCommandProhibited: false
  ArchiveBinariesDependOnPath: false
  UpgradeBehavior: install
  Commands:
  - rufus
ManifestVersion: 1.12.0
ManifestType: merged