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Title: Debian Installer Wheezy XXXXXXXXXX release
The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the XXXXXXXXXX release of the installer for Debian Wheezy.
Improvements in this release of the installer
- 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).
- rootskel-gtk: Update the banner, since the Debian logo has a suitable license now.
Hardware support changes
- Add EFI support.
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 web site.
Thanks
The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.