* MSG_900+ will be used for Windows Store translation, so add them
and makes sure these get filtered out from embedded.loc.
* Also make sure we don't get a "Translated by:" in the English version
when compiled with VS2022.
* Also add Store screenshots and update listing.csv so that we can
autogenerate and upload a complete translation update to the store.
* Even if this makes the resulting executable slightly larger, this should help
with troubleshooting, especially for the Windows Store releases.
* Also drop the "since 2019" from the Downloads badge, since once you reach 100M
the start date for the counter becomes a bit meaningless...
* Not using our own FAT32 formatting may result in access errors due to
Microsoft's hare-brain handling of ESP access.
* Also update upcoming translations and copyright year.
* This means we don't need to worry about conversion issues regarding signedess. In addition,
the behavior will no longer be undefined if for some reason the conversion cannot happen.
* Closes#2104.
* Newer Intel and AMD CPUs have SSE extensions for SHA-1 and SHA-256 acceleration.
* Add new cpu.c/cpu.h sources to detect the extensions, and use them in checksum.c
if available.
* Acceleration code is taken from https://github.com/noloader/SHA-Intrinsics.
* Update the relevant loc messages.
* Also add a -z commandline option to force the Windows version (but without letting
this option work as an override, if running on an unsupported platform).
* Also fix typos and broken URLs.
* Since 8814944c35 we may mount an ISO for the lookup of the Windows version,
which produces DBT_DEVNODES_CHANGED messages being issued when the virtual DVD is being created or removed
* This in turn leads to unwanted device refreshes.
* This patch makes sure we ignore DBT_DEVNODES_CHANGED while scanning.
* Also improve comments in iso.c.
* Arch recently added a "search --no-floppy --set=root --label <LABEL>" into their
grub.cfg, which we didn't have provision for patching, which means that, as soon
as the user changed the label or used an Arch derivative with a label that isn't
compliant with FAT (e.g. Athena Linux), search, and therefore boot would fail.
* Also alter the code so that we modify for more than one token if needed.
* Closes#2086
* GPT was fine but MBR led to the creation of EFI bootable images using NTFS as the file
system, but without the UEFI:NTFS partition (e.g. UwUntu-22.10-desktop-amd64.iso).
* This is required because, even though it's easy to change a local account name
post install, doing so does not change the directory name in C:\Users\
* These are reserved usernames that are created by default, so we should not use them.
* Also fix missing format specifier in ApplyWindowsCustomization() and make sure we
print wim_index for both mount and unmount.
* Closes#2067 (with thanks to marcosfrm)
* This reverts most of 3528ca773d in order to download 'core.img' from our server instead of patching it.
* Also solve the issue of downloading a custom 'core.img' for Fedora 37, that introduced
a new 'grub_debug_is_enabled' symbol without altering their GRUB version string.
* This is accomplished by doing what the distro maintainers should have done on their
own, by appending a custom suffix to the GRUB version string.
* Pick the version and build number directly from the install[.wim|.esd] XML index.
This forces us to mount the ISO during scan, but it's the only way to get an accurate Build number...
* Also drop linking to version.dll (along with the whole version.dll delay-loading shenanigans).
* Remove last ditch effort on systems that are clearly broken for localization
and always report an explicit error to the user.
* Also update GitHub Actions actions/checkout (Closes#2036).
* Existing code was trying to detect if GRUB patching was needed for GRUB bootloaders
even if they were using standard prefixes, and as a result dropped GRUB support for
any versions that wasn't 2.04 or 2.06, since we don't have a patch for those.
* This patch restores the expected behaviour to ensure that we don't disable GRUB if
a standard prefix is being used, regardless of the version being reported.
* Note that this issue only affected BIOS GRUB boot. UEFI GRUB boot was unaffected.
* Also set rufus-next to 3.21.
* sr-SR is not a country code that Microsoft accepts (and from what I can see
is not valid, because it should be sr-RS).
* This has the unfortunate effect of preventing the installation of Rufus from
the Windows Store, which fails with error 0x80070057 (Invalid parameter).
* Fix this by using a country code for Serbia that Microsoft does accept: sr-Latn-RS
* Closes#2015
* First thing I'm gonna say is that, if your app validation process is unable to catch universal
installation errors like the one above, then your app validation process *SUCKS*, Microsoft!
* Hopefully, this has to do with the additional languages not being passed to MakePri's /dq
option. And there I also have to say thanks to Microsoft for *NOT* documenting how the heck
one is supposed to pass multiple languages with /dq, so that you actually end up with
<qualifier name="Language" value="en-US;ar-SA;bg-BG;..."> in priconfig.xml.
* What's that quote again? "Show me an App Store than only triples my work, and I will happily
let it take a third of my revenue"...?
* Some "unofficial" Windows ISOs use a custom boot.wim that only includes the Setup
image at index 1, rather than at index 2, after the PE image, for official ISOs.
* Also refactor to add a long needed vhd.h header.
* Also fix a MinGW warning.
* How nice of "Open Source proponent" IBM/Red-Hat/Fedora to fix double space typos while making sure the
provenance of the software they are using is hidden:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/grub2/blob/rawhide/f/0024-Don-t-say-GNU-Linux-in-generated-menus.patch
* Long story short: Fedora fixed the double space in "GRUB version", but of course they didn't upstream
this change since it is part of a patch that removes every possible mention of GNU. This made our GRUB
version detection break, since it relies on finding a "GRUB version" string.
* Fix this by looking for both "GRUB version" and "GRUB version".
* This, however, does not fix Fedora Rawhide BIOS boot, since they also added custom GRUB calls such as
'grub_debug_is_enabled', which we don't have in our vanilla produced GRUB binary.
* Closes#2002.
* Local account is created with the same name as the current user along with an *empty* password
(which we force the user to change on next logon). This is done to assuage users who might be
weary of entering a password in a third party application, and has the benefit of enabling
autologon when the install is complete.
* Note that the creation of a local account through an answer file prevents Windows 11 22H2
from bugging users about MSA *even with an active network connection*.
* For convenience reasons, only duplication of the current username is enabled. We *may* add a
dialog to enter any random username in a future version, but for 3.20, this is all you get.
* Likewise, the locale duplication is only carried out during OOBE and *not* WinPE (which means
that you still get the initial "Windows setup language and user preferences" prompt). This is
intentional as otherwise the default screen and "Repair Windows" options are not presented.
* It's not my fault that the Windows password change screen is super ill conceived, whereas it
doesn't hide the current password field as it should when the current password is blank, and
one needs to click on a very small arrow to get the changes applied, instead of a PROMINENT
button that should intuitively have been positioned right next to "Cancel".
* If you want to complain that we should just "present the user with XYZ and be done with it",
please bear in mind that we can't add new dialogs to Rufus as willy-nilly as you believe we
can. *ANY* new UI interface requires major planning, which is the reason why, for the time
being, we are limited to reusing a simple dissociated list of checkboxes for all WUE options.
* In a manner that defies logic, Microsoft designed Windows setup to parse Autounattend.xml
for windowsPE tasks in the PE environment, but only carry out the copying of that file
to %WINDIR%\Panther for subsequent processing with the other passes *IF* there exist an
actual windowsPE section.
* In short, when using the Autounattend.xml method, Microsoft have made all passes there
dependent on the existence of a windowsPE pass, regardless of whether that pass has any
use or not.
* Working around this would be fine and all (just add an empty windowsPE pass so that the
later passes get executed) if the absence of a windowsPE pass didn't also determine
whether the user will be presented with the default Windows setup screens that include
the "Repair your computer" option or a completely different set of screens (c.f. #1971).
* This means that, to keep users happy, we need to add yet another method to carry out
tasks that should have remained the realm of boot.wim's Autounattend.xml, and instead
create a \sources\$OEM$\$$\Panther\unattend.xml when there are no windowsPE tasks (on
account that setup copies anything found under \sources\$OEM$\$$\ to %WINDIR%\).
Only through this can we have the specialize and oobeSystem tasks actually carried out
(for bypassing MSA requirements of skipping the data collection screens) while keeping
the original Windows Setup look and feel.
* Closes#1981
* The use of an unattend.xml to create the TPM/Secure Boot/Disk/RAM bypass keys was
prompted by Microsoft restricting the ability of Windows Store app from manipulating
offline registry hives.
* However, the use of a windowsPE phase in unattend.xml to insert the keys results in
a windows command prompt briefly appearing when setup launches, as well as slightly
different Windows setup screens from the default.
* So we are now reverting to trying to edit the boot.wim registry hive offline (which
should work for the non Store version of Rufus) while falling back to using a PE
unattend section if that doesn't work.
* Closes#1971
* This is for Knoppix images that have a /boot/syslinux that links to /boot/isolinux/
with EFI Syslinux trying to use /boot/syslinux/syslnx[32|64].cfg as its config file.
* Note to Knoppix devs, you could have ensured EFI File System transposition by using
the same approach as we do here, which is to create non-symlinked /boot/syslinux
config files that point back to the isolinux ones.
