Rufus: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Rufus from Pete Batard

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-09-15

What is Rufus?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementRufus is a free, open-source utility for Windows that quickly formats and creates bootable USB flash drives from ISO image files. It is widely used to install operating systems like Windows and Linux, flash BIOS firmware, or run low-level system diagnostics.
 

The entire lifecycle of Rufus

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Rufus. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Rufus (Pete Batard) release, version and end-of-life information
XRufus (Pete Batard) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Rufus (Pete Batard)
 

Facts and figures about Rufus

Product
Rufus
Vendor
Pete Batard
Latest version
4.15
Number of releases
4
Number of versions
90
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
86
Licence
GPL-3.0
Licence details
https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-3.0
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rufus
 
 

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