Cyril Brulebois has announced the release of the initial alpha version of the Debian 13 Trixie Installer. This version features significant updates for hardware support, introduces a new user-setup screen, and includes various bug fixes for partitioning components.

The release is available in 78 languages, with complete translation provided for 18 of those languages. Installation images and other essential resources can be accessed on the Debian Installer website. The release feature the Ceratopsian theme by Elise Couper, an enhancement of user-setup screens, and resolutions for partitioning component issues.

Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".



Foreword
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I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.

Important changes in this release
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Many changes have been happening during this release cycle already, and this announcement isn't meant to be exhaustive. Instead, let's stick to some high-level view of the most important changes.

There are major updates on the hardware support side:
- We're no longer building an installer for the armel and i386 architectures, even if they remain in the archive at the moment.
- The mipsel architecture was removed from the archive last year.
- The riscv64 architecture is brand new!

Even if the boot screens remain to be updated, the Ceratopsian theme by Elise Couper is making his debut in the installer.

The user-setup screens (dealing with the creation of the root user and the first user) have received an overdue makeover.

A lot of improvements and bugfixes have made their way to components responsible for partitioning. This includes different heuristics for automatic partitioning (e.g. to compute the swap size), some recipes dedicated to small disks, etc.

Localization status
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* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 18 of them.

Known bugs in this release
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* Some big packages are making it harder than usual to build images for source packages, but we decided to publish this alpha release anyway.

See the errata[2] for details and a full list of known issues.

Feedback for this release
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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
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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 ( https://debamax.com/)
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant