<strong>Note to users who created volumes with 1.17 version of VeraCrypt or earlier: </strong><br/>

<span style="color:#ff0000;">To avoid hinting whether your volumes contain a hidden volume or not, or if you depend on plausible deniability when using hidden volumes/OS, then you must recreate both the outer and hidden volumes including system encryption and hidden OS, discarding existing volumes created prior to 1.18a version of VeraCrypt.</span></li>

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<ul>

<li><strong>All OSes:</strong>

<ul>

<li>Don't allow a directory path to be entered for the file container to be created in Format wizard.</li>

<li>Don't try to use fix for CVE-2019-19501 if Windows Shell has been modified or is not running since there is no reliable way to fix it in such non standard configuation.</li>

<li>MBR bootloader: fix incorrect compressed data size passed to decompressor in boot sector.</li>

<li>Update libzip to latest version 1.7.3.</li>

<li>Update translations.</li>

</ul>

<li>Force reading of at least 32 bytes from /dev/random before allowing it to fail gracefully</li>

<li>Allow choosing a filesystem other than FAT for Outer volume but display warning about risks of such choice. Implement an estimation of maximum possible size of hidden volume in this case.</li>

<li>Erase sensitive memory explicitly instead of relying on the compiler not optimizing calls to method Memory::Erase.</li>

<li>Update wxWidgets for static builds to version 3.0.5.</li>

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