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.

Macrium Reflect has received its latest update this week with version 8.1.7387. The update fixes a critical bug wherein users reported image failures with the error ...