Rufus 3.0 (Bootable USB Drive Creator for Windows) Released

Rufus, the lightweight and portable program for creating bootable USB drives on Windows, has reached version 3.0. Rufus, primarily developed by Pete Batard of Akeo Consulting, remains one of the easiest and most powerful ways to create bootable USB drives on Windows. Its simple user interface is easy to navigate, and Rufus is able to create bootable USB drives from a wide variety of Windows and Linux ISO files. It supports MBR and GPT partitioning and can even be used to create bootable DOS disks.

Released on May 29th, the version 3.0 of Rufus brings a new user interface and many other changes (pulled directly from the changelog):

• UI redesign to follow the flow of user operations (with thanks to Fahad Al-Riyami for the concept)
• Drop Windows XP and Windows Vista platform support
• Switch all downloads to SSL and use https://rufus.ie as the new base URL
• Add ARM64 support for UEFI:NTFS
• Fix delays when querying floppy drives during device enumeration
• Improve support of efi.img files on Linux ISOs
• Improve support for non-ISO9660 compliant openSUSE Leap ISOs
• Improve translation support and remove manual positioning
• Internal fixes and improvements

You can grab a copy of Rufus at its new website, https://rufus.ie/. Rufus can be run directly from the downloaded .exe file — no installation is necessary.