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This page is used to prepare the next release announcement to be sent to debian-boot and debian-devel-announce mailing lists.

Title: Debian Installer Wheezy Beta1 release

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian Wheezy.

TODO LIST

Package changelogs to review

  • kfreebsd 8.3
  • kfreebsd 9.0

ACTUAL RELEASE DRAFT

Improvements in this release of the installer

  • brltty: Add new braille USB IDs to d-i udev rules.
  • debian-archive-keyring: Wheezy keys were added.
  • libx11: Some Compose sequences were tweaked or removed.
  • rootskel-gtk: Use the Wheezy Joy theme for the installer.
  • rootskel-gtk: Use Tibetan Machine Uni font for Tibetan.
  • d-i: Add fonts-sil-padauk-udeb to gtk-common to support Burmese.
  • Improved low memory mode.
  • newt: Fix 'Escape' detection when 'No' is selected (#665784).
  • localechooser: Re-enable Welsh
  • hw-detect: check-missing-firmware now supports looking into xz-compressed udebs.
  • netcfg: Fix for "Enter the passphrase for WPA PSK" missing a "go back" button (#636211).
  • netcfg: Make link detection timeout preseedable (#610752).
  • netcfg: Fix link detection progress bar.
  • pciutils: Update pci.ids to the 2012.06.25 version.
  • network-console: Add support for public-key authentication (#592550).
  • d-i: Adjust syslinux boot menu to not overlap with Debian logo.
  • d-i: Switch the boot backgrounds to the Wheezy joy theme.
  • d-i: Update to 3.2.0-3 linux ABI.
  • fonts-lklug-sinhala: Fix empty udeb package.
  • fonts-lohit-telu: Fix some glyphs.
  • fonts-tibetan-machine: Fix empty udeb package.
  • busybox: Enable ping applet for udeb build.
  • mkvmlinuz: Compress initrd with xz to significantly reduce vmlinuz size (Closes: #549681).
  • grub2: Prevent EFI systems from running out of memory due to large disk cache.
  • apt: Fix crashes on s390x.
  • apt: Improved behaviour with proxies (redirection handling improved, and HTTP/1.1 pipelining disabled by default).
  • wpa: Fix authentication issues with WPA2 passwords.
  • linux kernel: Updated from 3.2.15 to 3.2.21 (many fixes).
    • rt2x00: Identify rt2800usb chipsets (#658067).
    • rt2800usb: Add support for Ralink RT5392/RF5372 chipset (#673186).
    • [sparc,sparc64] Build virtio-modules-udeb for use in qemu (#673320).
    • [ia64,powerpc] udeb: Add crc-itu-t to crc-modules; make firewire-core-modules depend on it.
    • input: Add Synaptics USB device driver (Closes: #678071).
    • udeb: Add missing dependencies for various modules (see #678587).

Behavioral changes in this release

  • rootskel-bootfloppy support has been removed (#653840).
  • preseed: Point the keymap alias to keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap instead of the now-gone console-keymaps-at.
  • kfreebsd-*: When more than one kfreebsd version is available, make kfreebsd-9 the default boot option.

Hardware support changes

  • libdebian-installer: Add support for ?LaCie NAS devices (Kirkwood), #670527.

  • network-console: Set LED signal on ?LaCie Kirkwood NAS devices when SSH is ready (#670941).

  • linux kernel: Updated from 3.2.15 to 3.2.21.
    • rt2x00: Identify rt2800usb chipsets (#658067).
    • rt2800usb: Add support for Ralink RT5392/RF5372 chipset (#673186).
    • [sparc,sparc64] Build virtio-modules-udeb for use in qemu (#673320).
    • be2net: Add support for Skyhawk cards.
    • [x86] udeb: Add hyperv-modules containing Hyper-V paravirtualised drivers.
    • [armel/kirkwood] Add dreamplug and iconnect support (Closes: #675922).

Known issues in this release

Regressions in this release

  • espeak: Incomplete migration to multi-arch, which leads to: Debian installer software speech does not switch language (#682313).

Not yet known issues in this release

We do need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are available at our web site.

Thanks

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.

Blockers for final release