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40<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> 40<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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43<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Update2-RC </strong>(December 12<sup>th</sup>, 2019):</p>
44<ul>
45<li><strong>All OSes:</strong>
46<ul>
47<li>clear AES key from stack memory when using non-optimized implementation. Doesn't apply to VeraCrypt official build (Reported and fixed by Hanno Böck)</li>
48<li>Update Jitterentropy RNG Library to version 2.2.0</li>
49<li>Start following IEEE 1541 agreed naming of bytes (KiB, MiB, GiB, TiB, PiB).</li>
50<li>Various documentation enhancements.</li>
51</ul>
52</li>
53<li><strong>Windows:</strong>
54<ul>
55<li>Fix possible local privilege escalation vulnerability during execution of VeraCrypt Expander (CVE-2019-19501)</li>
56<li>MBR bootloader:
57<ul>
58<li>workaround for SSD disks that don't allow write operations in BIOS mode with buffers less than 4096 bytes.</li>
59<li>Don't restore MBR to VeraCrypt value if it is coming from a loader different from us or different from Microsoft one.</li>
60</ul>
61</li>
62<li>EFI bootloader:
63<ul>
64<li>Fix "ActionFailed" not working and add "ActionCancelled" to customize handling of user hitting ESC on password prompt</li>
65<li>Fix F5 showing previous password after failed authentication attempt. Ensure that even wrong password value are cleared from memory.</li>
66</ul>
67</li>
68<li>Fix multi-OS boot compatibility by only setting VeraCrypt as first bootloader of the system if the current first bootloader is Windows one.</li>
69<li>Add new registry flags for SystemFavoritesService to control updating of EFI BIOS boot menu on shutdown.</li>
70<li>Allow system encrypted drive to be mounted in WindowsPE even if changing keyboard layout fails (reported and fixed by Sven Strickroth)</li>
71<li>Enhancements to the mechanism preserving file timestamps, especially for keyfiles.</li>
72<li>Fix RDRAND instruction not detected on AMD CPUs.</li>
73<li>Detect cases where RDRAND is flawed (e.g. AMD Ryzen) to avoid using it if enabled by user</li>.
74<li>Don't write extra 0x00 byte at the end of DcsProp file when modifying it through UI</li>
75<li>Reduce memory usage of IOCTL_DISK_VERIFY handler used in disk verification by Windows.</li>
76<li>Add switch /FastCreateFile for VeraCrypt Format.exe to speedup creation of large file container if quick format is selected.</li>
77<li>Fix the checkbox for skipping verification of Rescue Disk not reflecting the value of /noisocheck switch specified in VeraCrypt Format command line.</li>
78<li>check "TrueCrypt Mode" in password dialog when mounting a file container with .tc extension</li>
79<li>Update XML languages files.</li>
80</ul>
81</li>
82<li><strong>Linux:</strong>
83<ul>
84<li>Fix regression causing admin password to be requested too many times in some cases</li>
85<li>Fix off by one buffer overflow in function Process::Execute (Reported and fixed by Hanno Böck)</li>
86<li>Make sure password gets deleted in case of internal error when mounting volume (Reported and fixed by Hanno Böck)</li>
87<li>Fix passwords using Unicode characters not recognized in text mode.</li>
88<li>Fix failure to run VeraCrypt binary built for console mode on headless machines.</li>
89<li>Add switch to force the use of legacy maximum password length (64 UTF8 bytes)</li>
90<li>Add CLI switch (--use-dummy-sudo-password) to force use of old sudo behavior of sending a dummy password</li>
91<li>During uninstall, output error message to STDERR instead of STDOUT for better compatibility with package managers.</li>
92<li>Make sector size mismatch error when mounting disks more verbose.</li>
93<li>Speedup SHA256 in 64-bit mode by using assembly code.</li>
94</ul>
95</li>
96<li><strong>MacOSX:</strong>
97<ul>
98<li>Add switch to force the use of legacy maximum password length (64 UTF8 bytes)</li>
99<li>Fix off by one buffer overflow in function Process::Execute (Reported and fixed by Hanno Böck)</li>
100<li>Fix passwords using Unicode characters not recognized in text mode.</li>
101<li>Make sector size mismatch error when mounting disks more verbose.</li>
102<li>Speedup SHA256 in 64-bit mode by using assembly code.</li>
103<li>Link against latest wxWidgets version 3.1.3</li>
104</ul>
105</li>
106</ul>
107
108
43<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Hotfix1 </strong>(October 27<sup>rd</sup>, 2019):</p> 109<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.24-Hotfix1 </strong>(October 27<sup>rd</sup>, 2019):</p>
44<ul> 110<ul>
45<li><strong>Windows:</strong> 111<li><strong>Windows:</strong>