Rufus 2.8

[tarekma7]

Rufus is a utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc. It can be especially useful for cases where: you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.), you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed, you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOS, or you want to run a low-level utility. Despite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need! With Rufus you can: Format USB and Virtual HD drives to FAT/FAT32/NTFS/UDF/exFAT/ReFS, Create DOS bootable USB drives, Create BIOS or UEFI NTFS bootable drives, Create bootable drives from bootable ISOs and bootable disk images, including compressed ones, Create Windows To Go drives and Perform bad blocks checks, including detection of "fake" flash drives. Rufus features Modern and familiar UI, with more than 35 languages. All this in a Small footprint, Fast, No installation required, Portable, Open Source, 100% Free Software.
 
Changes in 2.8:

[*]Enable listing of non-USB card readers (EXPERIMENTAL)

[*]Major speed improvement for checksum computation

[*]Fix UI flicker during progress actualization

[*]Fix computation of FAT size for Large FAT32 (with thanks to Ady)

[*]Syslinux improvements

[*]Update GRUB to 2.02~beta3

[*]Homepage:

[*]https://rufus.akeo.ie/

[*]Changelog:

[*]https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pbatar...ngeLog.txt

[*]Download:

[*]https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.8.exe

Portable:
https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.8p.exe

[neutrinos]

Thanks for great utility update post

[tarekma7]

Rufus version 2.9  [Release Date:  17/05/2016]

Changelog:

Add ARM support for UEFI:NTFS

[*]Fix UEFI:NTFS support for HP and Gigabyte firmwares (with thanks to Rod Smith and linnaea)

[*]Fix unwanted listing of some internal removable drives

[*]Fix the resurgence of a possible Syslinux installation crash

[*]Fix missing default cluster size default on exFAT for >32GB drives

[*]Fix the non-removal of the commandline hogger in some corner cases

[*]Use "modern" file selection dialog on Vista or later (if you can spot the difference, good for you...)

[*]Download:

[*]https://rufus.akeo.ie/downloads/rufus-2.9.exe

[baziroll]

Version 2.11 (2016.09.??)
Do not download BIOS related files unless BIOS boot is selected
Improve support for Arch Linux derivatives
Add a cheat mode to disable drive indexing (Alt-Q) on format
Fix handling of 'Super Floppy Disk' formatted drives
Fix an issue that enabled FAT32 file system selection on some Windows images
Fix broken UI font for XP users
Fix sanitizing of exFAT labels

[baziroll]

o Version 2.12 (2017.01.??)
Add Hebrew translation, courtesy of NSBuilder and פלוני אלמוני
Add a cheat mode (Alt-O) to create an ISO from the first optical media found
Enable target system selection for Windows To Go
Enable NTFS selection for Syslinux 6.x (EXPERIMENTAL)
Fix an issue that allowed BIOS target selection with pure UEFI images
Fix license display for RTL languages
Update Grub4DOS and FreeDOS to latest
Additional fixes and improvements