MacOSX VeraCrypt v1.24 Update 8 Released (November 28, 2020) Website Download / Download (SourceForge) / Download (LaunchPad) Release Notes
Fix the VeraCrypt "Automatic Repair" issue on Windows July 14, 2021 https://www.ghacks.net/2021/07/14/fix-the-veracrypt-automatic-repair-issue-on-windows/
VeraCrypt 1.24 Update 9 Beta Released (August 7, 2021) Website Announcement Download (SourceForge) Release Notes Spoiler: Changes 1.24 Update 9 Beta 1.24 Update 9 BETA released August 7, 2021 All OSes: Speed optimization of Streebog. Update translations. Windows: Add support for Windows on ARM64 (e.g. Microsoft Surface Pro X) but system encryption not yet supported. Add MSI installer for silent mode deployment (ACCEPTLICENSE=YES must be set in msiexec command line). Reduce time of mount when PRF auto-detection is selected. Replace insecure wcscpy/wcscat/strcpy runtime functions with secure equivalents. Fix failure to load local HTML documentation if application running with administrative privileges Fix freeze when password dialog displayed in secure desktop and try to access token keyfiles protected by PIN Fix failure to launch keyfile generator in secure desktop mode Block Windows from resizing system partition if it is encrypted Add keyboard shortcut to "TrueCrypt mode" in the mount dialog. Linux: Add UI language support using installed XML files. Language is automatically detected using "LANG" environment variable Compatiblity with with pam_tmpdir. FreeBSD: Make system devices work under FreeBSD OpenBSD: Add basic support of OpenBSD
VeraCrypt 1.25 RC1 Released (September 5, 2021) Website Announcement Download (SourceForge) Release Notes Spoiler: Changes 1.25 RC1 Changes between 1.24-Update8 and 1.25-RC1 (5 September 2021) : All OSes: Speed optimization of Streebog. Update translations. Windows: Add support for Windows on ARM64 (e.g. Microsoft Surface Pro X) but system encryption not yet supported. Add MSI installer for silent mode deployment (ACCEPTLICENSE=YES must be set in msiexec command line). For now, MSI installer cannot be used if system partition is encrypted with VeraCrypt Drop support of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7. Windows 8 is now the minimum supported Windows version. Reduce time of mount when PRF auto-detection is selected. Fix potential memory corruption in driver caused by integer overflow in IOCTL_STORAGE_MANAGE_DATA_SET_ATTRIBUTES (reported by Ilja van Sprundel). Replace insecure wcscpy/wcscat/strcpy runtime functions with secure equivalents. EFI Bootloader: Fix memory leak in some cases caused by wrong check of pointer for calling MEM_FREE Clear bootParams variable that may contain sensitive information when halting the system in case of fatal error Add option "KeyboardInputDelay" in DcsProp to control the minimum delay supported between two key strokes Fix failure to load local HTML documentation if application running with administrative privileges Fix freeze when password dialog displayed in secure desktop and try to access token keyfiles protected by PIN Fix failure to launch keyfile generator in secure desktop mode Block Windows from resizing system partition if it is encrypted Add keyboard shortcut to "TrueCrypt mode" in the mount dialog. MacOSX: Native support of Apple Silicon M1. Drop official support of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Add UI language support using installed XML files. Language is automatically detected using "LANG" environment variable. Linux: Add UI language support using installed XML files. Language is automatically detected using "LANG" environment variable Compatiblity with with pam_tmpdir. Display icon in notification area on Ubuntu 18.04 and newer (contibuted by https://unit193.net/). FreeBSD: Make system devices work under FreeBSD OpenBSD: Add basic support of OpenBSD
VeraCrypt 1.25 Released (November 29, 2021) Website Announcement Download (SourceForge) Release Notes Spoiler: Changes v1.25 Changes between 1.24-Update8 and 1.25 (29 November 2021) : https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/VeraCrypt 1.25/ All OSes: Speed optimization of Streebog. Update translations. Windows: Add support for Windows on ARM64 (e.g. Microsoft Surface Pro X) but system encryption not yet supported. Add MSI installer for silent mode deployment (ACCEPTLICENSE=YES must be set in msiexec command line). For now, MSI installer cannot be used if system partition is encrypted with VeraCrypt MSI installer requires Windows 10 or newer Drop support of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 because of new requirement for driver code signing. Reduce time of mount when PRF auto-detection is selected. Fix potential memory corruption in driver caused by integer overflow in IOCTL_STORAGE_MANAGE_DATA_SET_ATTRIBUTES (reported by Ilja van Sprundel). Replace insecure wcscpy/wcscat/strcpy runtime functions with secure equivalents. Changes EFI Bootloader: Fix memory leak in some cases caused by wrong check of pointer for calling MEM_FREE Clear bootParams variable that may contain sensitive information when halting the system in case of fatal error Add option "KeyboardInputDelay" in DcsProp to control the minimum delay supported between two key strokes Try to workaround Windows Feature Updates issues with system encryption by fixing of bootloader and SetupConfig.ini when system resumes or when session is opened/unlocked Fix failure to load local HTML documentation if application running with administrative privileges Fix freeze when password dialog displayed in secure desktop and try to access token keyfiles protected by PIN Fix failure to launch keyfile generator in secure desktop mode Block Windows from resizing system partition if it is encrypted Add keyboard shortcut to "TrueCrypt mode" in the mount dialog. MacOSX: Native support of Apple Silicon M1. Drop official support of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Add UI language support using installed XML files. Language is automatically detected using "LANG" environment variable. Add CLI switch (--size=max) and UI option to give a file container all available free space on the disk where it is created. Return error if unknown filesystem value specified in CLI --filesystem switch instead of silently skipping filesystem creation. Linux: Add UI language support using installed XML files. Language is automatically detected using "LANG" environment variable Compatiblity with with pam_tmpdir. Display icon in notification area on Ubuntu 18.04 and newer (contibuted by https://unit193.net/). Add CLI switch (--size=max) and UI option to give a file container all available free space on the disk where it is created. Return error if unknown filesystem value specified in CLI --filesystem switch instead of silently skipping filesystem creation. FreeBSD: Make system devices work under FreeBSD Add CLI switch (--size=max) and UI option to give a file container all available free space on the disk where it is created. Return error if unknown filesystem value specified in CLI --filesystem switch instead of silently skipping filesystem creation. OpenBSD: Add basic support of OpenBSD Add CLI switch (--size=max) and UI option to give a file container all available free space on the disk where it is created. Return error if unknown filesystem value specified in CLI --filesystem switch instead of silently skipping filesystem creation.
FYI. VeraCrypt Portable 1.25.4 (free disk encryption) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com
VeraCrypt 1.25.6 Nightly Build Released (January 3, 2022) Website Download (SourceForge) Spoiler: Changes v1.25.6 Changes between 1.25.4 and 1.25.6 (3 January 2022) : - Windows: * Restore support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. - Windows 7 support requires that either KB3033929 or KB4474419 is installed. - Windows Vista support requires that either KB4039648 or KB4474419 is installed. * MSI installation only: Fix double-clicking .hc file container inserting %1 instead of volume name in path field. * Add registry settings to control driver internal encryption queue to allow tuning performance for SSD disks and having better stability under heavy load: - Under registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt: - VeraCryptEncryptionFragmentSize (REG_DWORD): size of encryption data fragment in KiB. Default is 256. Maximum is 2048. - VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of parallel I/O requests. Default is 16. Maximum is 8192. - VeraCryptEncryptionItemCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of encryption queue items processed in parallel. Default as well as maximum is half of VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount. - The triplet (FragmentSize=512, IoRequestCount=128, ItemCount=64) is an example of parameters that enhance sequential read speed on some SSD NVMe systems. - MacOSX: * Fix resource files inside VeraCrypt application bundle (e.g. HTML documentation, languages XML files) being world-writable. (Reported by Niall O'Reilly)
for Windows and macOS VeraCrypt 1.25.7 Released (January 7, 2022) Website Download (SourceForge) Release Notes Spoiler: Changes v1.25.7 https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/VeraCrypt 1.25.7/ Changes between 1.25.4 and 1.25.7 (7 January 2022) : - All OSes: * Update translations. - Windows: * Restore support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1. - Windows 7 support requires that either KB3033929 or KB4474419 is installed. - Windows Vista support requires that either KB4039648 or KB4474419 is installed. * MSI installation only: Fix double-clicking .hc file container inserting %1 instead of volume name in path field. * Add registry settings to control driver internal encryption queue to allow tuning performance for SSD disks and having better stability under heavy load: - Under registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt: - VeraCryptEncryptionFragmentSize (REG_DWORD): size of encryption data fragment in KiB. Default is 256. Maximum is 2048. - VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of parallel I/O requests. Default is 16. Maximum is 8192. - VeraCryptEncryptionItemCount (REG_DWORD): maximum number of encryption queue items processed in parallel. Default as well as maximum is half of VeraCryptEncryptionIoRequestCount. - The triplet (FragmentSize=512, IoRequestCount=128, ItemCount=64) is an example of parameters that enhance sequential read speed on some SSD NVMe systems. - MacOSX: * Fix resource files inside VeraCrypt application bundle (e.g. HTML documentation, languages XML files) being world-writable. (Reported by Niall O'Reilly)
VeraCrypt 1.25.8 Release Candidate Released (February 11, 2022) Website Announcement Download (SourceForge) Spoiler: Changes v1.25.8 Release Candidate Full changes between 1.25.7 and 1.25.8 (10 February 2022) : All OSes: Update translations (Chinese, Dutch, German, Turkish). Windows: Make MSI installer compatible with system encryption. Set minimum support for MSI installation to Windows 7. Fix failure to create Traveler Disk when VeraCrypt is installed using MSI. Don't cache the outer volume password when mounting with hidden volume protection if wrong hidden volume password was specified. Reduce the size of EXE installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE. Fix double-clicking mounted drive in VeraCrypt UI not working in some special Windows configurations. Add registry key to fix BSOD during shutdown/reboot on some machines when using system encryption. Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt", create a REG_DWORD value named "VeraCryptEraseKeysShutdown". Setting this registry value to 0 disables erasing system encryption keys which is the cause of BSOD during shutdown on some machines. Linux: Fix generic Linux installer overwriting /usr/sbin if it is a symlink.
VeraCrypt 1.25.9 Released (February 19, 2022) Website Announcement Download (SourceForge) Release Notes Spoiler: Changes v1.25.9 Changes between 1.25.7 and 1.25.9 (19 February 2022) : https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/VeraCrypt 1.25.9/ All OSes: Update translations (Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Turkish). Windows: Make MSI installer compatible with system encryption. Set minimum support for MSI installation to Windows 7. Fix failure to create Traveler Disk when VeraCrypt is installed using MSI. Don't cache the outer volume password when mounting with hidden volume protection if wrong hidden volume password was specified. Reduce the size of EXE installers by almost 50% by using LZMA compression instead of DEFLATE. Fix double-clicking mounted drive in VeraCrypt UI not working in some special Windows configurations. Add registry key to fix BSOD during shutdown/reboot on some machines when using system encryption. Under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\veracrypt", create a REG_DWORD value named "VeraCryptEraseKeysShutdown". Setting this registry value to 0 disables erasing system encryption keys which is the cause of BSOD during shutdown on some machines. Linux: Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window. Fix generic Linux installer overwriting /usr/sbin if it is a symlink. Fix crash when building with _GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS defined. Enable building from source without AES-NI support. MacOSX: Fix hidden volume settings not correctly displayed when enabling hidden volume protection in mount options window.
FYI. VeraCrypt Portable 1.25.9 (free disk encryption) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com
VeraCrypt BETA Release - 1.26.4 (Monday July 24, 2023) https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/VeraCrypt Nightly Builds/ Good to see development is still alive
FYI. VeraCrypt Portable 1.26.7 (free disk encryption) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com
FYI. VeraCrypt Portable 1.25.9 TrueCrypt Legacy (free disk encryption) Released for the PA Platform, courtesy of PortableApps.com
