• Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3 release

    From Cyril Brulebois@21:1/5 to All on Tue May 16 06:10:01 2023
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot

    The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the third release
    candidate of the installer for Debian 12 "Bookworm".


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

    * finish-install:
    - Adjust APT cache cleaning to avoid breaking bash completion
    (#1034650).
    * grub-installer:
    - Detect EFI boot variables with hexadecimal digits, not only
    decimal digits.
    * hw-detect:
    - Restore support for firmware license prompts (#1033921).
    * linux:
    - Build against updated dwarves, reducing its size and memory
    footprint (#1033301).
    * partman-base:
    - Add support for input submitted using power-of-two units: kiB,
    MiB, GiB, etc. (#913431). Note that sizes are still output using
    power-of-ten units: kB, MB, GB, etc.
    - Add support for bigger prefixes: petabyte (PB), pebibyte (PiB),
    exabyte (EB), and exbibyte (EiB).
    - With many thanks to Vincent Danjean!
    * preseed:
    - Make sure netcfg considers DHCP-provided hostnames, only using
    the hostname parameter on the kernel command line as a fallback
    (#1035349).


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

    * debian-installer:
    - Ship dedicated DRM modules for bochs and cirrus to avoid broken
    graphics under UEFI/Secure Boot (#1036019).
    * linux:
    - Work around black screen on ppc64el (#1033058).
    * xorg-server:
    - Ship modesetting_drv.so in the udeb again, fixing graphical
    installer support on UTM (#1035014).


    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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