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<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer Jessie Alpha 1 release</define-tag>
<define-tag release_date>2014-03-19</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 alpha release of the installer for Debian 8
<q>Jessie</q>.
</p>
<h2>Improvements in this release of the installer</h2>
<ul>
<li>Many components were updated during the beginning of the Jessie
release cycle, so a full list of changes is not be included in
this announcement.</li>
<li>apt-setup: Avoid hang due to interactive apt-cdrom
(<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/740673">#740673</a>).</li>
<li>grub-installer: Support menu selection of GRUB boot disk
(<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/706112">#706112</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h2>Behavorial changes in this release</h2>
<ul>
<li>Xfce is the default desktop environment for the time
being. Quoting tasksel's changelog: <q>this will be re-evaluated in
August 2014, and may change again before Jessie is released</q>.</li>
<li>It's still possible to select an alternative desktop to install at
the boot prompt; installation images are available for the various
major desktop environments as usual.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Hardware support changes</h2>
<ul>
<li>The ia64 architecture has been removed from the archive, and is no
longer supported.</li>
<li>The s390 architecture has been replaced with the s390x
architecture.</li>
<li>It wasn't possible to build the installer for sparc
(<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/731806">#731806</a>), so
no installation images are available for this architecture. Its
future as an official port is being evaluated by the release team.</li>
<li>The Linux kernel has been updated from 3.2 to 3.13.</li>
<li>The FreeBSD kernel has been updated from 9.0 to 9.2.</li>
<li>armel: The iop32x flavour has been dropped.</li>
<li>armhf: The armmp flavour has been added; it covers both mx5 and
vexpress.</li>
<li>mipsel: The cobalt flavour has been dropped.</li>
<li>s390x: The tape flavour has been dropped.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Localization status</h2>
<ul>
<li>75 languages are supported in this release.</li>
<li>Full translation for 12 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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