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= Title: Debian Installer Wheezy Beta3 release =
The Debian Installer [[http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team|team]] is pleased to announce the Wheezy Beta3 release of the installer for Debian Wheezy.


== Improvements in this release of the installer ==

 * debian-installer:
    * Speech synthesis: add support for more languages (#684473).
    * GNU/kFreeBSD: Fix broken kfreebsd-9 CD graphical install menu entry (#686858).
    * GNU/kFreeBSD: Tweak memory settings to fix the graphical install (#686861).
    * Artwork: Update to use the official Debian logo, which has a suitable license now.
    * Install wheezy by default instead of sid on armhf and s390x.
 * apt-cdrom: Fix download of all description translations (#678227).
 * apt-cdrom: Fix issues with multi-arch CD-ROMs.
 * busybox: Include ping and ping6.
 * cdebconf: Enumerate choices horizontally for speech synthesis (#682538).
 * efi-reader: Build on amd64 and i386.
 * fonts-samyak: Fix misrendered spaces for several Indian languages (#687176).
 * isc-dhcp: Fix several security issues (#686174).
 * libdebian-installer: Add "efi" as a subarchitecture for amd64 and i386.
 * localechooser: Improve charset support for bare Linux console and for network-console installations (#677931).
 * localechooser: Stop ignoring non-ASCII country names (#687249).
 * lowmem: Update limits.
 * netcfg: Add full IPv6 support.
 * netcfg: Map localhost to ::1 as well as 127.0.0.1 (#686970).


== Hardware support changes ==

 * Add EFI support for 64-bit PCs (amd64), allowing installation in EFI mode instead of using the legacy BIOS. This does '''not''' include any support for UEFI Secure Boot - that will come later.


== Localization changes ==

 * 73 languages are supported in this release.
 * Full translation for 37 of them.


== 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.