Debian Installer Bullseye RC 1 release
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 11 "Bullseye".
Improvements in this release
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* base-installer:
- Re-add the removed is_ports_architecture() function - it's used by
other packages and library.sh looks like a fair central place for it
to be (#979193).
* brltty:
- Update udev rules.
- Make sure the hardening flags are used in the udeb build.
* choose-mirror:
- Update Mirrors.masterlist.
* debian-archive-keyring:
- Add bullseye keys, remove jessie keys.
* debian-cd:
- Shorten "ppc64el" to "p64el" in the volume ID.
- Include eatmydata deb for the installer to use offline (#986772).
* debian-installer:
- Build in libinput instead of evdev driver for the graphical
installer. This should improve support for touchpads in particular.
- Bump Linux kernel ABI to 5.10.0-6.
- Add wireless-regdb-udeb to all Linux arch images (#979104).
- Correct keyword for bootloader arguments in netboot/xen/debian.cfg
example file (#904131).
- Update debian-internals manual to current development state.
- Update minimum disk and memory sizes.
* debian-installer-utils:
- list-devices-linux: Support partitions on USB UAS devices.
* espeakup:
- Carry over the alsa mixer levels into the installed system.
* grub-installer:
- Make sure that efivarfs is loaded and the efivars pseudofs is
mounted when needed.
* grub2:
- Add support for SBAT.
- grub-install: Fix inverted test for NLS enabled when copying locales
(#979754).
* installation-report:
- bugscript: do not include template in script output (#980929).
* libdebian-installer:
- Remove the arbitrary limitation on maximum line length in Packages
and Sources files (#971946).
* libinih:
- Add libinih1-udeb for Debian Installer (#981864).
* libinput:
- Drop libwacom support from the udeb.
* libmd:
- Add a udeb package needed by libbsd.
* libwacom:
- Drop the udeb, libinput no longer needs it.
* linux:
- Add bonding driver to the nic-modules udeb.
- Remove efivars from the efi-modules udeb.
- arm64: Fix i2c-mv64xxx module name.
* localechooser:
- Disable Kabyle for the text-based installer, as switching keyboard
fails there (#973455).
- Correct Kabyle locale definition in languagelist to its real naming.
* lowmem:
- Delete graphical terminal related files when memory is low
(#977490).
- 5lowmem: Rename to 05lowmem so that rescue actually overrides it
(#870574).
- S15lowmem: Update minimum memory sizes.
* nano:
- Compile the udeb with --without-included-regex to make binaries
substantially smaller.
* netcfg:
- Update testcases to work with current Check API (#980607).
- Satisfy GCC pedantry for strncpy() calls.
* os-prober:
- Probe Microsoft OS on arm64.
* partman-btrfs:
- Add minimal subvolume support for / (#964818).
* partman-efi:
- Make sure that efivarfs is loaded and the efivars pseudofs is
mounted when needed.
* rootskel:
- Use /dev/tty0 as a console even if it's not in /proc/consoles.
- Do not remove the font when bterm is not started (#977466).
* rootskel-gtk:
- Switch to Homeworld theme for Debian 11 by Juliette Taka.
* user-setup:
- Allow underscore in username of first account (#977214).
Hardware support changes
========================
* debian-installer:
- arm64: Add support for puma-rk3399.
- arm64: Update to use u-boot-install-sunxi.
- armhf: Make hd-media and netboot sdcard images start at offset
32768, for compatibility with rockchip platforms.
- arm64, armhf: Update SD-card-images sizes for netboot, netboot-gtk
and hd-media.
* flash-kernel:
- Add support for Orange Pi One Plus (#981328).
- Add support for ROCK Pi 4 (A,B,C).
- Add support for Banana Pi BPI-M2-Ultra (#982089).
- Add support for Banana Pi BPI-M3 (#981561).
- Fix missing ESPRESSObin variants (#969518).
- Fix several DTB-Id entries that incorrectly referenced the
.dts instead of .dtb file.
Localization status
===================
* 78 languages are supported in this release.
Known bugs in this release
==========================
* Broken rescue mode with the graphical installer (#987377).
* amdgpu firmware required for many AMD graphic cards.
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 (kibi@debian.org) ( https://debamax.com/)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
Cyril Brulebois has announced the release candidate of the Debian GNU/Linux 11 Bullseye installer.
