The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpharelease 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 arenot documented individually below. That also explains why manylanguages are not fully translated in this alpha release.Improvements in this release============================* apt-setup:- Update generation of apt sources lines for security: renamedfrom <dist>/updates to <dist>-security starting with bullseye(#935540, #942238).- Fix preseeding for local repositories by adding the key(s) inthe /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 insources.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 onHiDPI 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 affsthat 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-42xand HP Media Vault mv2120 due to size problems with the Linuxkernel.- 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 isdetected (#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 avoidduplication.- [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, soplease try it. Installation images, and everything else you will needare available at our web site[3].Thanks======The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to thisrelease.1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installerCheers,--Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org) <https://debamax.com/>D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant