The latest edition of Macrium Reflect fixes a couple of major issues. The first one is related to disk image failures where users reported an "Invalid Function" error, while the second is an AVX bug.

For free drive imaging, you can hardly beat Macrium Reflect Free Edition–as long as you don’t use dynamic (Windows software RAID) or GPT (Globally Unique IDentifier Partition Table) disks. Most users ...

Short of it is: Whenever there is a Reflect 9, it will have paid versions only. 8 Free will get patches until Jan 2024, but won't officially support any future versions or build upgrades of Windows.

I figure that Macrium's last freeware distribution will still work for most HD/SSD cloning, for now, but I wondered if a spiritual successor had arisen yet? Hard to believe that it's been 2 years.