Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3 release

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Tue, 16 May 2023 06:01:28 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce
Organization	Debian
Message-ID	<20230516040128.yslg2olrm7et4bh2__41009.3991946027$1684209735$gmane$org@mraw.org>

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 ([email protected])            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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