Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

Cyril Brulebois <[email protected]> Tue, 31 Dec 2024 17:10:43 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce
Organization	Debian
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The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha
release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".


Foreword
========

I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.


Important changes in this release
=================================

Many changes have been happening during this release cycle already, and
this announcement isn't meant to be exhaustive. Instead, let's stick to
some high-level view of the most important changes.

There are major updates on the hardware support side:
 - We're no longer building an installer for the armel and i386
   architectures, even if they remain in the archive at the moment.
 - The mipsel architecture was removed from the archive last year.
 - The riscv64 architecture is brand new!

Even if the boot screens remain to be updated, the Ceratopsian theme by
Elise Couper is making his debut in the installer.

The user-setup screens (dealing with the creation of the root user and
the first user) have received an overdue makeover.

A lot of improvements and bugfixes have made their way to components
responsible for partitioning. This includes different heuristics for
automatic partitioning (e.g. to compute the swap size), some recipes
dedicated to small disks, etc.


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

 * 78 languages are supported in this release.
 * Full translation for 18 of them.


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

 * Some big packages are making it harder than usual to build images for
   source packages, but we decided to publish this alpha release anyway.

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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