A new alpha version of the new Debian installer has been released

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the seventh alpha
release of the installer for Debian 9 "Stretch".


Improvements in this release
============================

* debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel version from 4.5.0-2 to 4.6.0-1.
- Bump kfreebsd (kernel) version to 10.3.
- Produce two beeps when booted with grub instead of one, so the
user knows she has to use the grub way to edit entries.
* syslinux:
- Fix input on the boot prompt being ignored (#823459).


Hardware support changes
========================

* debian-installer:
- Add u-boot config script for Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate
NAS.
- Use XZ compression for QNAP on Kirkwood due to size
restrictions.
- Mark fb-modules as required for armhf's netboot-gtk flavour.
- ARM: orion5x: Add a few Linkstation devices to netboot target.
- ARM: orion5x: Change initrd to XZ compression for all
orion5x-based Linkstation devices.
- Add mipsel octeon images.
- Drop mipsel cobalt support.
- Add mips64el support.
- Drop mipsel/loongson-2e and mipsel/loongson-2f images.
* hw-detect:
- Stop trying to install obsolete optimized libc packages
(libc6-i686 and libc6-sparcv9b).
- Embed a filename-to-package mapping for firmwares, to be used at
a later point.
* libdebian-installer:
- Add mips64el support.
- Add EFI detection on armhf.
- Check both efivars and vars under /sys/firmware/efi to decide
whether EFI mode is enabled (#826665).
* linux:
- [arm64] udeb: Add fb-modules.
- [mips*/*-malta] udeb: Add ata-modules package.
* network-console:
- Remove more Cobalt-related code.
* rootskel:
- Remove NSLU2 support code.
* u-boot:
- Add Jetson TX1 (P2371-2180) target (#825458).
- Add arm64 arch.
- Fix guruplug.config (#781873).
- Add odroid-xu3 target, tested on Odroid-XU4.
- u-boot-omap: Add support for dra74_evm (#824730).
- Fix voltages used on several OlinuXino Lime board variants
(#825214).


Localization status
===================

* 75 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for none of them (due to a recently discovered
bug), but 66 languages have a mostly completed translation.


Known bugs in this release
==========================

* There seems to be no known major bug as of yet.

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. Installer CDs, other media 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. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
2. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
3. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

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