<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>

</p>

<ul>

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

<ul>

<li>Added support for SHA-256 x86 intrinsic to enhance the performance of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256.</li>

<li>Updated translations</li>

</ul>

</li>

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

<ul>

<li>Dropped support for Windows 32-bit.</li>

<li>Fixed failed EFI detection on some PCs where the BootOrder variable is not defined (proposed by @kriegste, GH #360).</li>

<li>Fixed various issues affecting the EFI system encryption configuration editor.</li>

<li>Replaced the deprecated CryptGenRandom with BCryptGenRandom for generating secure random bytes.</li>

</ul>

</li>

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

<ul>

<li>Fixed an assertion issue with the wxWidgets library included in Ubuntu.</li>

<li>Improved directory-opening logic by prioritizing xdg-open and adding fallback mechanisms.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li><strong>macOS:</strong>

<ul>

<li>Disabled screen capture by default. Added the --allow-screencapture CLI switch to enable it if needed.</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<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>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>Fix failure of Screen Readers (Accessibility support) to read UI by disabling newly introduced memory protection by default and adding a CLI switch (/protectMemory) to enable it when needed.</li>

<li>Fix side effects related to the fix for CVE-2019-19501 which caused links in UI not to open.</li>

<li>Add switch /signalExit to support notifying <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/waitfor" target="_blank">WAITFOR</a> Windows command when VeraCrypt.exe exits if /q was specified in CLI (cf documentation for usage).</li>

<li>Documentation and translation updates.</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li>Driver: Fix "Incorrect Parameter" error when mounting volumes on some machines.</li>

<li>Fix failure to mount system favorites during boot on some machines.</li>

<li>Fix current application losing focus when VeraCrypt is run in command line with /quit /silent switches.</li>

<li>Fix rare cases of secure desktop for password dialog not visible which caused UI to block.</li>

<li>Update libzip to version 1.5.0 that include fixes for some security issues.</li>

<li>Extend Secure Desktop feature to smart card PIN entry dialog.</li>

</li><li>Fix system favorites not always mounting after cold start. </li><li>Solve installer error when updating VeraCrypt on Windows 10. </li><li>Implement decryption of non-system partition/drive. </li><li>Include 64-bit exe files in the installer and deploy them on 64-bit machines for better performances.

</li><li>Allow using drive letters A: and B: for mounting volumes </li><li>Make command line argument parsing more strict and robust (e.g. /lz rejected, must be /l z)

</li><li>Add possibility to show system encryption password in Windows GUI and bootloader

</li><li>Add manual selection of partition when resuming in-place encryption. </li><li>Add command line option (/cache f) to temporarily cache password during favorites mounting.

</li><li>Add waiting dialog for Auto-Mount Devices operations to avoid freezing GUI. </li><li>Add extra information to displayed error message in order to help analyze reported issues.

</li><li>Disable menu entry for changing system encryption PRF since it's not yet implemented.

</li><li>Uninstall link now open the standard &quot;Add/Remove Programs&quot; window. </li><li>On uninstall, remove all VeraCrypt references from registry and disk. </li><li>Included VeraCryptExpander in the Setup. </li><li>Add option to temporary cache password when mounting multiple favorites. </li><li>Minor fixes and enhancements (see git history for more information) </li></ul>

</li><li><strong>MacOSX:</strong>

<ul>

</li><li>Solve issue VeraCrypt window not reopening by clicking dock icon. </li></ul>

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

<ul>

<li>Security: fix vulnerability in bootloader detected by Open Crypto Audit and make it more robust.

</li><li>Add support for SHA-256 in system boot encryption. </li><li>Various optimizations in bootloader. </li><li>Complete fix of ShellExecute security issue. </li><li>Kernel driver: check that the password length received from bootloader is less or equal to 64.

</li><li>Correct a random crash when clicking the link for more information on keyfiles

</li></ul>

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<strong style="text-align:left">1.0e </strong>(September 4, 2014)</div>