Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3 release
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm".
Improvements in this release
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* finish-install:
- Adjust APT cache cleaning to avoid breaking bash completion (#1034650).
* grub-installer:
- Detect EFI boot variables with hexadecimal digits, not only decimal digits.
* hw-detect:
- Restore support for firmware license prompts (#1033921).
* linux:
- Build against updated dwarves, reducing its size and memory footprint (#1033301).
* partman-base:
- Add support for input submitted using power-of-two units: kiB, MiB, GiB, etc. (#913431). Note that sizes are still output using power-of-ten units: kB, MB, GB, etc.
- Add support for bigger prefixes: petabyte (PB), pebibyte (PiB), exabyte (EB), and exbibyte (EiB).
- With many thanks to Vincent Danjean!
* preseed:
- Make sure netcfg considers DHCP-provided hostnames, only using the hostname parameter on the kernel command line as a fallback (#1035349).
Hardware support changes
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* debian-installer:
- Ship dedicated DRM modules for bochs and cirrus to avoid broken graphics under UEFI/Secure Boot (#1036019).
* linux:
- Work around black screen on ppc64el (#1033058).
* xorg-server:
- Ship modesetting_drv.so in the udeb again, fixing graphical installer support on UTM (#1035014).
Localization status
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* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 41 of them.
Known bugs in this release
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* There seems to be no known major bug as of yet.
See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.
Feedback for this release
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We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installation images, and everything else you will need are available at our web site[3].
Thanks
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The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.
1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer
Cheers,
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Cyril Brulebois ( https://debamax.com/)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
Cyril Brulebois has announced the availability of the third Debian 12 Bookworm installer release candidate.
