It adds enhanced security to the algorithms used for system and partitions encryption making it immune to new developments in brute-force attacks. It also solves many vulnerabilities and security issues found in TrueCrypt.
This enhanced security adds some delay ONLY to the opening of encrypted partitions without any performance impact to the application use phase. This is acceptable to the legitimate owner but it makes it much harder for an attacker to gain access to the encrypted data.
All released files are PGP signed with key ID=0x680D16DE, available on key servers and downloadable at
Download:https://sourceforge.net/projects/veracrypt/files/latest/download
Source code:https://github.com/veracrypt/VeraCrypt