Re: Debian Installer Buster RC 1 release
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release
> candidate of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster".
Sadly, the latest version of tasksel has not been unblocked for migration to
Buster.
(I have been pointed on this by Wolfgang, subscriber of
'Bug#923975: task files should not recommend removed packages' )
Please consider tasksel for unblocking to get that included in Buster.
Thanks
Holger
>
> Important change in this release
> ================================
>
> This release includes Secure Boot support on amd64, which should work
> out of the box on most Secure Boot enabled machines. This means there
> should be no need to disable Secure Boot support in the firmware
> configuration anymore.
>
>
> Improvements in this release
> ============================
>
> * apt-setup:
> - Adjust handling of media sets, improving support for Debian Edu.
> * brltty:
> - Add support for Hedo MobiLine.
> * cdebconf:
> - Disable paging in text frontend for now, espeakup does not
> pronounce the keys to change pages (see #690343) and thus users
> are confounded and think the first page are the only choices.
> * cryptsetup:
> - The on-disk LUKS format version now defaults to LUKS2 (#919725).
> * debian-installer:
> - Switch to using buster artwork for the splash screen.
> - Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.19.0-1 to 4.19.0-4.
> - Improve build reproducibility (#900918, #920631, #920676).
> - gen-tarball: stop using the deprecated GZIP variable.
> - gen-tarball: use pigz automatically if it is available.
> - Add dark theme submenu and shortcut: 'd' (#820911).
> - Fix loading background image on netboot grub.
> * debian-installer-utils:
> - Stop propagating BOOTIF to the installed system (#921444).
> * espeakup:
> - Fix writing down sound card ID when the installation finishes.
> * finish-install:
> - Add support for multiple consoles.
> * grub-installer:
> - On Linux, mount/unmount /run to work around timeouts during LVM
> initialization (#918590).
> * grub2:
> - Fix setup on Secure Boot systems where cryptodisk is in use
> (#917117).
> - Make grub-efi-amd64-signed recommend shim-signed (#919067).
> - Add help and ls modules to signed UEFI images (#919955).
> - grub-install: Check for arm-efi as a default target (#922104).
> - util: Detect more I/O errors, like insufficient space (#922741).
> - Use libefi* libraries to minimise writes to EFI variable storage
> (#891434), instead of depending on efibootmgr. (The latter is
> expected to come back in Recommends in a later release, since
> that's a useful debugging tool.)
> * hw-detect:
> - Use 'modprobe -qn' to query available modules (#870448).
> * libxinerama:
> - Fix udeb dependencies (#921715).
> * linux:
> - certs: Replace test signing certificate with production signing
> certificate.
> - certs: include both root CA and direct signing certificate
> (#924545).
> * live-installer:
> - Add calamares-settings-debian as package to be removed at the
> end of the installation.
> * nano:
> - Add patch to avoid showing ^S and ^Q options in nano-tiny, as
> using those can cause problems on some d-i environments, like
> installs over serial console (#915017).
> * network-console:
> - Drop “beep” support for arm*/ixp4xx and arm*/iop32x; it was used
> to notify users their devices was ready to be installed, but
> support for those platforms was removed from the Linux kernel
> and therefore d-i (#921951).
> * partman-base:
> - Make sure UUIDs are available in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ so that the
> bootloader can be configured to use them (#852323).
> * partman-lvm:
> - Really fix invalid characters in volume group names (#911036),
> the the previous attempt was not entirely functional (#922230,
> #922100).
> * partman-partitioning:
> - Use GPT by default on armhf/efi, MSDOS otherwise.
> * rootskel:
> - Make theme=dark install and enable Compiz in MATE.
> - Make theme=dark make grub use a dark theme.
> - Run d-i on multiple consoles independently where configured.
> - Add error-handling to steal-ctty.
> - Add early logging so we can later see what consoles are detected
> and chosen.
> * rootskel-gtk:
> - Integrate Buster theme: futureprototype.
> * systemd:
> - udev: Run programs in the specified order (#925190).
> - udev: Prevent mass killings when not running under systemd
> (#918764).
--
Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>
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