The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release ============================ * debian-cd: - Use hard links instead of symlinks for firmware packages (#1031696). - Delete loadlin support entirely. * debian-installer: - Refresh help screen with minimum disk size for installation and better documentation links (#1033193). * debian-installer-utils: - Include xterm terminfo entry on all architectures, fixing nano issues in the graphical installer (#1026027). * grub-installer: - Basic heuristic for force-efi-extra-removable question. - Add question for running grub-install with --no-nvram, using similar logic. * hw-detect: - Deduplicate the list of requested firmware files, not just the list of requesting modules (#1031631). - Implement microcode support when /proc/cpuinfo contains a vendor_id field, with one of the following values (#1029804): + Install amd64-microcode on AuthenticAMD. + Install intel-microcode on GenuineIntel. + Enable non-free-firmware accordingly. + Perform installation via finish-install, making sure apt-setup has been configured, and using apt-install for dependency resolution. - Optimize firmware package installation: process dpkg triggers once, after all packages have been installed, leading to a single update-initramfs call. - Fix condition around moutmedia calls (#1032377). - Fix files removal for non-accepted firmware packages (#1032377). - Add a special case for the mhi module (#1032140), using holders information (e.g. ath11k_pci and qrtr_mhi for some Atheros wireless cards). - Fix dmesg timestamp management. - Fix package name extraction when removing a firmware package (e.g. it failed to install because it was corrupted). - Build /var/log/firmware-summary as a 3-column summary of firmware (and microcode) packages getting installed (#1029849). - Fix removal of temporary files in /target after installing firmware packages (#1033035). - Determine the package name by using the Package field instead of trusting the filename when installing firmware packages (#1033035). - Make sure not to include the possible -n option when setting the IFACES variables in check-missing-firmware (#1033035). * installation-report: - Store firmware information in /var/log/installer/firmware-summary (#1033325). See the 2.87 changelog entry for details. - Include firmware-summary in installation reports. * localechooser: - Remove AN from country list; move CW to Caribbean region. Hardware support changes ======================== * debian-installer: - Enable sound modules and speakup on arm64 gtk images. * linux: - Fix reloading mt7921e module after deploying firmware files (#1029116). - Add michael_mic to crypto-modules, for ath11k and others (#1032140). - Add qrtr_mhi to nic-wireless, for ath11k (#1032140). - Add DRM ast driver to fb-modules on ppc64el (#990016). - Add sound and speakup udebs on arm64 and armhf (#1031289). Localization status =================== * 78 languages are supported in this release. * Full translation for 41 of them. Known bugs in this release ========================== * Encrypted LVM might fail on low memory systems (#1028250). * Broken “Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM” partitioning in UEFI mode (#1033913). See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues. Feedback for this release ========================= 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 ====== 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, -- Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/> D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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