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Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 release



The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha
release of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".

It's high time we started doing this: many components were updated,
replacing “CD”/“CD-ROM” with “installation media”. Such changes are
not documented individually below. That also explains why many
languages are not fully translated in this alpha release.


Improvements in this release
============================

 * apt-setup:
    - Update generation of apt sources lines for security: renamed
      from <dist>/updates to <dist>-security starting with bullseye
      (#935540, #942238).
    - Fix preseeding for local repositories by adding the key(s) in
      the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory (#851774, #928931).
 * base-installer:
    - Stop installing the apt-transport-https transitional package.
 * brltty:
    - Stop creating my-at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop in user profile,
      at-spi2-core now always start the at-spi bus.
 * choose-mirror:
    - Update Mirrors.masterlist.
    - Use "deb.debian.org" as default hostname for custom HTTP mirror.
 * console-setup:
    - Fix internationalization issues (#924657).
 * debian-installer:
    - Target Bullseye!
    - Allow to have several spaces around [] qualifiers in
      sources.list entries.
    - Restore 'd' shortcut for the dark theme. 'c' cannot work in grub
      (#935545).
    - Set gfxpayload=keep in submenus too, to fix unreadable fonts on
      HiDPI displays in netboot images booted with EFI (#935546).
    - Convert some documentation to DocBook XML 4.5 (#907970).
 * finish-install:
    - Stop creating my-at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop in user profile,
      at-spi2-core now always start the at-spi bus.
 * fonts-sil-abyssinica:
    - Do not strip the font of Latin characters for the installer.
 * grub2:
    - Add probe module to signed UEFI images (#936082).
 * netcfg:
    - Reword template since some DHCP clients are no longer available.
 * parted:
    - Cherry-pick upstream patch to remove output to stdout from affs
      that confused the installer (#941777).
 * partman-crypto:
    - Install cryptsetup-initramfs instead of cryptsetup (#930228).


Hardware support changes
========================

 * debian-installer:
    - Remove images for QNAP TS-11x/TS-21x/HS-21x, QNAP TS-41x/TS-42x
      and HP Media Vault mv2120 due to size problems with the Linux
      kernel.
    - ARM: sunxi: Add support for Olimex A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC.
    - Tweak mini.iso generation on arm so EFI netboot will work.
 * hw-detect:
    - Install virtualization related packages when virtualization is
      detected (#782287).
 * linux:
    - [arm64] udeb: Add i2c-rk3x to i2c-modules.
    - [arm64,armhf] udeb: Add rockchip-io-domain to kernel-image.
    - udeb: Add atmel_mxt_ts to input-modules.
    - udeb: input-modules: Add OLPC AP-SP keyboard.
    - [arm64] udeb: Add pl330 to kernel-image.
    - [armhf] udeb: Remove davinci_cpdma from nic-modules.
    - udeb: Include physmap instead of physmap_of in mtd-modules.
    - udeb: Add thermal_sys to kernel-image.
    - udeb: Add virtio-gpu to get graphical output in VM instances.
    - [x86] udeb: Move rfkill to new rfkill-modules package to avoid
      duplication.
    - [arm] Backport DTB support for Rasperry Pi Compute Module 3.
    - [arm64] Backport DTB support for Rasperry Pi Compute Module 3.


Localization status
===================

 * 76 languages are supported in this release.


Known bugs in this release
==========================

 * 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
=========================

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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