1.26.24 (May 30th; 2025):$$$$$$All OSes:$$$Fix whirlpool implementation for big-endian platforms (GH #1529).$$$Rename Dismount All to Unmount All in UI. Use ALT+u as new accelerator key instead of ALT+s$$$Add contributed Chinese and Russian CHM documentation.$$$Update translations.$$$Windows:$$$Implemented screen protection against screenshots and screen recording; enabled by default.$$$This feature can be disabled during installation or via the Performance/Driver Configuration settings.$$$Added checkboxes to the MSI installer to control memory protection and screen protection features.$$$Introduced command-line options DISABLEMEMORYPROTECTION and DISABLESCREENPROTECTION for the MSI installer to manage these features.$$$Both options accept values 0 (enabled) or 1 (disabled).$$$Example usage:$$$msiexec /i VeraCrypt_Setup_x64_1.26.24.msi DISABLESCREENPROTECTION=1 /qn REBOOT=ReallySuppress MSIRESTARTMANAGERCONTROL=Disable ACCEPTLICENSE=YES$$$Fix race conditions when multiple instances of veracrypt are started simultaneously.$$$Updated libzip to version 1.11.3.$$$Linux:$$$Add support for AppImage packaging and usage.$$$Fix absolute path of true command not being used when checking if sudo session is active.$$$Fix failure to use Hungarian language translations.$$$Improve generic installer scripts (GH #1514).$$$Add support for /run/media/veracrypt as default mount prefix when /media is not available(GH #1524).$$$Remove pcsclite dependency from .deb/.rpm packages since it is detected/loaded dynamically at runtime.$$$macOS:$$$Fix absolute path of true command not being used when checking if sudo session is active.$$$Create simlink of VeraCrypt in /usr/local/bin to allow using it from command line.$$$Fix failure to use Hungarian language translations.

1.26.20 (February 3rd; 2025):$$$$$$All OSes:$$$Implement SHA-256 acceleration on ARM64 platforms using CPU instructions.$$$Update translations.$$$Replace Dismount with Unmount across the UI and documentation to align with IT standards.$$$Windows:$$$Fix regression in driver that always allowed defragmentation and caused other side effects.$$$Revert to the previous method of gathering system entropy due to stability issues reported by users.

All OSes:$$$Added support for SHA-256 x86 intrinsic to enhance the performance of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256.$$$Updated translations$$$Windows:$$$Dropped support for Windows 32-bit.$$$Set Windows 10 October 2018 Update (version 1809) as the minimum supported version.$$$Reduce driver deadlock occurences under low-memory scenarios caused by re-entrant IRP completions.$$$Fixed failed EFI detection on some PCs where the BootOrder variable is not defined $$$Fixed Access Denied error when updating VeraCrypt using EXE setup following a Windows upgrade.$$$Fixed various issues affecting the EFI system encryption configuration editor.$$$Fixed regression in Traveler Disk creation.$$$Replaced the deprecated CryptGenRandom with BCryptGenRandom for generating secure random bytes.$$$Use modern API to gather system entropy for random generation instead of obsolete ones.$$$Update LZMA SDK to version 24.09$$$Update libzip to version 1.11.2

1.26.15 (September 2nd; 2024):$$$$$$Windows:$$$Fix MSI install/uninstall issues:$$$Fixed error 1603 returned by MSI silent install when REBOOT=ReallySuppress is specified and a reboot is required.$$$Fixed missing documentation and language files from the MSI package.$$$Fixed MSI not installing new documentation and language files when upgrading from an EXE-based installation.$$$Fixed installation folder not being removed after MSI uninstall in some cases.$$$Fix regression during UEFI system decryption that caused the bootloader to persist.

Minor enhancements to RAM Encryption implementation$$$Fix Secure Desktop issues under Windows 11 22H2$$$Implement support for mounting partially encrypted system partitions.