The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm". Improvements in this release ============================ * apt-setup: - Enable <codename>-updates when installing testing, not only when installing (old)stable (#991947). * argon2: - Restore threading support in the installer (#1034696). * base-installer: - Install zstd alongside initramfs-tools, like busybox. * choose-mirror: - Update Mirrors.masterlist. * cryptsetup: - Improve support for low-memory systems (#1028250): Check for physical memory available also in PBKDF benchmark, and use only half of detected free memory on systems without swap. * debian-cd: - Include zstd alongside initramfs-tools, like busybox. * debian-installer: - Fix grub font loading, making sure we get the nice graphical splash screen in Secure Boot mode too (#1034535). * grub-installer: - Install shim-signed on i386 and arm64 as well as amd64 when we're installing grub-efi-*-signed packages. - If we detect other operating systems installed, check with the user (at low priority) and re-enable os-prober. * grub2: - Add debconf logic for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to make it easier to control things here, particularly useful for the installer (#1031594, #1012865, #1025698). - Add luks2 to the signed grub efi images (#1001248). - Fix probing of LUKS2 devices (#1028301). - Fix Secure Boot on arm64 (#1033657). - Don't warn about os-prober if it's not installed (#1020769). - Fix an issue where a logical volume rename would lead grub to fail to boot (#987008). * live-installer: - Remove the live packages before the cdrom is unmounted, avoiding a long wait at the end of the installation process. * partman-efi: - Fix detection of BIOS-bootable systems, fixing at least the "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM" use case on UEFI systems (#834373, #1033913). * preseed: - Restore support for the "hostname" alias on the kernel command line (#1031643, #1034062). - Switch auto-install/defaultroot to bookworm. Hardware support changes ======================== * flash-kernel: - Adjust OLPC XO-1.75 boot script. - Add Lenovo Miix 630 and Lenovo Yoga C630. - Add StarFive VisionFive board. - Add D1 SoC boards. - Add QEMU-related "dummy" entries. - Add A20-OLinuXino_MICRO-eMMC (#1019881). - Add Lenovo ThinkPad X13s. - Add Colibri iMX6ULL eMMC. - Add Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3. * linux: - udeb: add intel_lpss* (optional) to kernel-image (#1032136). Many laptops have their touchpad accessible over I2C, only visible if LPSS is available in the installer. Localization status =================== * 78 languages are supported in this release. * Full translation for 41 of them. 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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