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<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer 7.0 Beta1 release</define-tag>
<define-tag release_date>2012-08-04</define-tag>
#use wml::debian::news
<p>
The Debian Installer <a
href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team">team</a> is pleased to
announce the first beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0
<q>Wheezy</q>.
</p>
<h2>Improvements in this release of the installer</h2>
<ul>
<li>debian-installer: Switch the boot backgrounds to the Wheezy joy theme.</li>
<li>debian-installer: Adjust syslinux boot menu to not overlap with Debian logo.</li>
<li>debian-installer: Update to 3.2.0-3 linux ABI.</li>
<li>apt: Fix crashes on s390x.</li>
<li>apt: Improved behaviour with proxies (redirection handling improved, and HTTP/1.1 pipelining disabled by default).</li>
<li>brltty: Add new braille USB IDs to d-i udev rules.</li>
<li>busybox: Enable ping applet for udeb build.</li>
<li>debian-archive-keyring: Wheezy keys were added.</li>
<li>fonts-lohit-telu: Fix some glyphs for Telugu language support.</li>
<li>grub2: Prevent EFI systems from running out of memory due to large disk cache.</li>
<li>hw-detect: check-missing-firmware now supports looking into xz-compressed udebs.</li>
<li>linux kernel: Updated from 3.2.15 to 3.2.21 (many fixes).
<ul>
<li>[sparc,sparc64] Build virtio-modules-udeb for use in qemu (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/673320">#673320</a>).</li>
<li>[ia64,powerpc] udeb: Add crc-itu-t to crc-modules; make firewire-core-modules depend on it.</li>
<li>udeb: Add missing dependencies for various modules (see <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/678587">#678587</a>).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>lowmem: Improved low memory mode.</li>
<li>mkvmlinuz: Compress initrd with xz to significantly reduce vmlinuz size (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/549681">#549681</a>).</li>
<li>netcfg: Fix for "Enter the passphrase for WPA PSK" missing a "go back" button (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/636211">#636211</a>).</li>
<li>netcfg: Make link detection timeout preseedable (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/610752">#610752</a>).</li>
<li>netcfg: Fix link detection progress bar.</li>
<li>network-console: Add support for public-key authentication (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/592550">#592550</a>).</li>
<li>newt: Fix 'Escape' detection when 'No' is selected (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/665784">#665784</a>).</li>
<li>pciutils: Update pci.ids to the 2012.06.25 version.</li>
<li>rootskel-gtk: Use the Wheezy Joy theme for the installer.</li>
<li>wpa: Fix authentication issues with WPA2 passwords.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Behavioral changes in this release</h2>
<ul>
<li>Businesscard images are no longer provided. The netinst images can be used instead.</li>
<li>kfreebsd-*: When more than one kfreebsd version is available, make kfreebsd-9 the default boot option.</li>
<li>preseed: Point the keymap alias to keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap instead of the now-gone console-keymaps-at.</li>
<li>rootskel-bootfloppy support has been removed (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/653840">#653840</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Hardware support changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>libdebian-installer: Add support for LaCie Kirkwood NAS devices (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/670527">#670527</a>).</li>
<li>linux kernel: Updated from 3.2.15-1 to 3.2.21-3.
<ul>
<li>rt2x00: Identify rt2800usb chipsets (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/658067">#658067</a>).</li>
<li>[armhf] Add vexpress support (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/670462">#670462</a>). More work is required to provide an installer though.</li>
<li>[armel] Introduce a new udeb module for leds and use it on kirkwood kernel (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/671200">#671200</a>).</li>
<li>rt2800usb: Add support for Ralink RT5392/RF5372 chipset (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/673186">#673186</a>).</li>
<li>be2net: Add support for Skyhawk cards.</li>
<li>[x86] udeb: Add hyperv-modules containing Hyper-V paravirtualised drivers.</li>
<li>[x86] ata_piix: defer disks to the Hyper-V drivers by default.</li>
<li>DFSG: video: Remove nvidiafb and rivafb.</li>
<li>input: Add Synaptics USB device driver (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/678071">#678071</a>).</li>
<li>[armel/kirkwood] Add dreamplug and iconnect support (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/675922">#675922</a>).</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>network-console: Set LED signal on LaCie Kirkwood NAS devices when SSH is ready (<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/670941">#670941</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Localization changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>Welsh language enabled.</li>
<li>Sinhala, Burmese, and Tibetan now really supported with the right font for each.</li>
<li>73 languages are supported in this release. Full translation for 56 of them.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Known issues in this release</h2>
<p>
See the <a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer/errata">errata</a> for details and a
full list of known issues.
</p>
<h2>Feedback for this release</h2>
<p>
We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please
try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are
available at our <a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer">web site</a>.
</p>
<h2>Thanks</h2>
<p>
The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
release.
</p>
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