To me the change is a quite astonishing piece of software development bad manners. (An article that doesn’t really do justice to the serious impact the software change potentially has, IMO) Unfortunately your post passed me by, and yesterday I was bitten by the very problem mentioned in the Ghacks article. Most users won’t be affected by the changes, but those who still use TrueCrypt volumes or volumes with the dropped algorithms may want to convert these to supported formats before running the upgrade.”įor the VeraCrypt 1.26.7: new features checkout the Ghacks Article for details. Ver圜rypt users need to make sure that they don’t run into incompatibility issues when upgrading to the latest version. While the software may still run on Windows 7 and 8 devices, there is no guarantee anymore.” On Windows, VeraCrypt releases are only tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11 systems. The developers suggest to use the previous version, 1.25.9, to convert volumes before upgrading. Volumes that use these algorithms can’t be mounted anymore in VeraCrypt 1.26.7 and future releases. Removed support for RIPEMD160 and GOST89 algorithms. There is no option anymore to mount TrueCrypt volumes in VeraCrypt 1.26.7 and future releases. TrueCrypt Mode support is removed in this version. The official release notes list the following compatibility changes: “VeraCrypt 1.26.7: Compatibility changes.It is a big release that addresses several issues and makes other important changes, including support for new features.” “It took the developers of the open source encryption software VeraCrypt more than 18 months to release VeraCrypt 1.26.7.Ghacks – VeraCrypt 1.26.7 update brings major changes: read this before updating

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