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= Title: Debian Installer Wheezy Beta1 release =
The Debian Installer [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team|team]] is pleased to announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian Wheezy.


== Improvements in this release of the installer ==

 * debian-installer: Switch the boot backgrounds to the Wheezy joy theme.
 * debian-installer: Adjust syslinux boot menu to not overlap with Debian logo.
 * debian-installer: Update to 3.2.0-3 linux ABI.
 * apt: Fix crashes on s390x.
 * apt: Improved behaviour with proxies (redirection handling improved, and HTTP/1.1 pipelining disabled by default).
 * brltty: Add new braille USB IDs to d-i udev rules.
 * busybox: Enable ping applet for udeb build.
 * debian-archive-keyring: Wheezy keys were added.
 * fonts-lohit-telu: Fix some glyphs for Telugu language support.
 * grub2: Prevent EFI systems from running out of memory due to large disk cache.
 * hw-detect: check-missing-firmware now supports looking into xz-compressed udebs.
 * libx11: Some Compose sequences were tweaked or removed.
 * 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).
 * lowmem: Improved low memory mode.
 * mkvmlinuz: Compress initrd with xz to significantly reduce vmlinuz size (Closes: #549681).
 * 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.
 * network-console: Add support for public-key authentication (#592550).
 * newt: Fix 'Escape' detection when 'No' is selected (#665784).
 * pciutils: Update pci.ids to the 2012.06.25 version.
 * rootskel-gtk: Use the Wheezy Joy theme for the installer.
 * wpa: Fix authentication issues with WPA2 passwords.

== Behavioral changes in this release ==

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

== Hardware support changes ==

 * libdebian-installer: Add support for LaCie NAS devices (Kirkwood), #670527.
 * linux kernel: Updated from 3.2.15-1 to 3.2.21-3.
   * rt2x00: Identify rt2800usb chipsets (#658067).
   * [armhf] Add vexpress support (Closes: #670462)
   * [armel] Introduce a new udeb module for leds and use it on kirkwoord kernel (Closes: #671200)
   * 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
   * [x86] ata_piix: defer disks to the Hyper-V drivers by default
   * [x86] udeb: Add hyperv-modules containing Hyper-V paravirtualised drivers.
   * DFSG: video: Remove nvidiafb and rivafb
   * input: Add Synaptics USB device driver (Closes: #678071).
   * [armel/kirkwood] Add dreamplug and iconnect support (Closes: #675922).
 * network-console: Set LED signal on LaCie Kirkwood NAS devices when SSH is ready (#670941).

== Localization changes ==
 * Welsh language enabled
 * Sinhala, Burmese and Tibetan now really supported with the right font for each
 * 73 languages are supported in this release. Full translation for 56 of them.

== Known issues in this release ==

 * Installing from the 1st CD without a network mirror doesn't install a full desktop environment.
 * espeak: Incomplete migration to multi-arch, which leads to a failure to switch languages for software speech in the Debian installer environment (#682313).
 * kfreebsd: grub-install may fail to find a GRUB drive (#637684).


== Feedback for 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 [[http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer|web site]].

=== Thanks ===

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