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<h1>Release Notes</h1>

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

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<li>Complete removal of RIPEMD160 and GOST89 algorithms. Legacy volumes using any of them cannot be mounted by VeraCrypt anymore.</li>

<li>Add support for BLAKE2s as new PRF algorithm for both system encryption and standard volumes.</li>

<li>Introducing support for EMV banking smart cards as keyfiles for non-system volumes.

<ul>

<li>No need for a separate PKCS#11 module configuration.</li>

<li>Card PIN isn't required.</li>

<li>Generates secure keyfile content from unique, encoded data present on the banking card.</li>

<li>Supports all EMV standard-compliant banking cards.</li>

<li>Can be enabled in settings (go to Settings->Security Tokens).</li>

<li>Developed by a team of students from the <a href="https://www.insa-rennes.fr">Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes</a>.</li>

<li>More details about the team and the project are available at <a href="https://projets-info.insa-rennes.fr/projets/2022/VeraCrypt/index_en.html">https://projets-info.insa-rennes.fr/projets/2022/VeraCrypt/index_en.html</a>.</li>

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<li>When overwriting an existing file container during volume creation, add its current size to the available free space</li>

<li>Add Corsican language support. Update several translations. </li>

<li>Update documentation</li>

</ul>

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<li><strong>Windows:</strong>

<ul>

<li>EFI Bootloader:

<ul>

<li>Fix bug in PasswordTimeout value handling that caused it to be limited to 255 seconds.</li>

<li>Rescue Disk: enhance "Boot Original Windows Loader" by using embedded backup of original Windows loader if it is missing from disk</li>

<li>Addition of Blake2s and removal of RIPEMD160 & GOST89</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Fix Secure Desktop issues under Windows 11 22H2</li>

<li>Allow choosing Fast Create in Format Wizard UI when creating file containers</li>

<li>Fix formatting issues during volume creation on some machines.</li>

<li>Fix stall issue caused by Quick Format of large file containers</li>

<li>Add dropdown menu to Mount button to allow mounting without using the cache.</li>

<li>Possible workaround for logarithmic slowdown for Encrypt-In-Place on large volumes.</li>

<li>Make Expander first check file existence before proceeding further</li>

<li>Allow selecting size unit (KB/MB/GB) for generated keyfiles</li>

<li>Display full list of supported cluster sizes for NTFS, ReFS and exFAT filesystems when creating volumes</li>

<li>Support drag-n-drop of files and keyfiles in Expander.</li>

<li>Implement translation of Expander UI</li>

<li>Update LZMA library to version 23.01</li>

</ul>

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<li><strong>Linux:</strong>

<ul>

<li>Fix bug in Random generator on Linux when used with Blake2s that was triggering a self test failure.</li>

<li>Modify Random Generator on Linux to exactly match official documentation and the Windows implementation.</li>

<li>Fix compatibility issues with Ubuntu 23.04.</li>

<li>Fix assert messages displayed when using wxWidgets 3.1.6 and newer.</li>

<li>Fix issues launching fsck on Linux.</li>

<li>Fix privilege escalation prompts being ignored.</li>

<li>Fix wrong size for hidden volume when selecting the option to use all free space.</li>

<li>Fix various issues when running in Text mode:

<ul>

<li>Don't allow selecting exFAT/BTRFS filesytem if they are not present or not compatible with the created volume.</li>

<li>Fix wrong dismount message displayed when mounting a volume.</li>

<li>Hide PIM during entry and re-ask PIM when user entered a wrong value.</li>

<li>Fix printing error when checking free space during volume creation in path doesn't exist.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Use wxWidgets 3.2.2.1 for static builds (e.g. console only version)</li>

<li>Fix compatibility of generic installers with old Linux distros</li>

<li>Update help message to indicate that when cascading algorithms they must be separated by dash</li>

</ul>

</li>

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<p><strong style="text-align:left">1.25.9</strong> (February 19^th, 2022):</p>

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

<ul>

<li>Update translations (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Turkish).</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><strong>Windows:</strong>

<ul>

<li>Make MSI installer compatible with system encryption.</li>

<li>Set minimum support for MSI installation to Windows 7.</li>

<li>Fix failure to create Traveler Disk when VeraCrypt is installed using MSI.</li>

<li>Don't cache the outer volume password when mounting with hidden volume protection if wrong hidden volume password was specified.</li>

<li>Reduce the size of EXE installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE.</li>

<li>Fix double-clicking mounted drive in VeraCrypt UI not working in some special Windows configurations.</li>

<li>Add registry key to fix BSOD during shutdown/reboot on some machines when using system encryption.

<ul>

<li>Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt", create a REG_DWORD value named "VeraCryptEraseKeysShutdown".</li>

<li>Setting this registry value to 0 disables erasing system encryption keys which is the cause of BSOD during shutdown on some machines.</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><strong>Linux:</strong>

<ul>

<li>Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.</li>

<li>Fix generic Linux installer overwriting /usr/sbin if it is a symlink.</li>

<li>Fix crash when building with _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS defined.</li>