https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Release%20Notes.html

1.26.18 (January 20th, 2025):

All OSes:
Added support for SHA-256 x86 intrinsic to enhance the performance of PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA256.
Added support for AES hardware on ARM64 platforms (e.g. Windows ARM64, macOS on Apple Silicon Mx).
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 (proposed by @kriegste, GH #360).
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 (GH #886)
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
Linux:
CVE-2024-54187: Added absolute paths when executing system binaries to prevent path hijacking (collaboration with SivertPL @__tfr)
CVE-2025-23021: Prevent mounting volumes on system directories and PATH (reported by SivertPL @__tfr)
Fixed an assertion issue with the wxWidgets library included in Ubuntu.
Improved directory-opening logic by prioritizing xdg-open and adding fallback mechanisms.
Ensure that volume exists before starting the mount operation.
Fix "Password too long" error message not expanded to include max length (GH #1456)
Simplify sudo session detection logic.