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author | Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> | 2019-04-15 21:17:29 +0200 |
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committer | Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> | 2019-04-15 21:48:35 +0200 |
commit | 1f4c67d01a760f5c0858d75cb2ca4b46027f77a3 (patch) | |
tree | c6b8e6611adee9096b1babc9129c4cef804fbfbd | |
parent | 86e0f42d2f6330c9372cb003584b50359468432c (diff) |
Add release announce for Buster RC 1.
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diff --git a/english/devel/debian-installer/News/2019/20190415.wml b/english/devel/debian-installer/News/2019/20190415.wml new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..6f69c86f94b --- /dev/null +++ b/english/devel/debian-installer/News/2019/20190415.wml @@ -0,0 +1,267 @@ +<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer Buster RC 1 release</define-tag> +<define-tag release_date>2019-04-15</define-tag> +#use wml::debian::news + +<p> +The Debian Installer <a +href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team">team</a> is pleased to +announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 10 +<q>Buster</q>. +</p> + + +<h2>Important change in this release</h2> + +<p>This release includes Secure Boot support on amd64, which should + work out of the box on most Secure Boot enabled machines. This means + there should be no need to disable Secure Boot support in the + firmware configuration anymore.</p> + + +<h2>Improvements in this release</h2> + +<ul> + <li>apt-setup: + <ul> + <li>Adjust handling of media sets, improving support for Debian Edu.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>brltty: + <ul> + <li>Add support for Hedo MobiLine.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>cdebconf: + <ul> + <li>Disable paging in text frontend for now, espeakup does not + pronounce the keys to change pages (#690343) and thus users + are confounded and think the first page are the only choices.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>cryptsetup: + <ul> + <li>The on-disk LUKS format version now defaults to LUKS2 + (#919725).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>debian-installer: + <ul> + <li>Switch to using buster artwork for the splash screen.</li> + <li>Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.19.0-1 to 4.19.0-4.</li> + <li>Improve build reproducibility (#900918, #920631, #920676).</li> + <li>gen-tarball: stop using the deprecated GZIP variable.</li> + <li>gen-tarball: use pigz automatically if it is available.</li> + <li>Add dark theme submenu and shortcut: 'd' (#820911).</li> + <li>Fix loading background image on netboot grub.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>debian-installer-utils: + <ul> + <li>Stop propagating BOOTIF to the installed system (#921444).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>espeakup: + <ul> + <li>Fix writing down sound card ID when the installation finishes.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>finish-install: + <ul> + <li>Add support for multiple consoles.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>grub-installer: + <ul> + <li>On Linux, mount/unmount /run to work around timeouts during + LVM initialization (#918590).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>grub2: + <ul> + <li>Fix setup on Secure Boot systems where cryptodisk is in use + (#917117).</li> + <li>Make grub-efi-amd64-signed recommend shim-signed (#919067).</li> + <li>Add help and ls modules to signed UEFI images (#919955).</li> + <li>grub-install: Check for arm-efi as a default target (#922104).</li> + <li>util: Detect more I/O errors, like insufficient space + (#922741).</li> + <li>Use libefi* libraries to minimise writes to EFI variable storage + (#891434), instead of depending on efibootmgr. (The latter is + expected to come back in Recommends in a later release, since + that's a useful debugging tool.)</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>hw-detect: + <ul> + <li>Use 'modprobe -qn' to query available modules (#870448).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>libxinerama: + <ul> + <li>Fix udeb dependencies (#921715).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>linux: + <ul> + <li>certs: Replace test signing certificate with production signing certificate.</li> + <li>certs: include both root CA and direct signing certificate (#924545).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>live-installer: + <ul> + <li>Add calamares-settings-debian as package to be removed at the + end of the installation.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>nano: + <ul> + <li>Add patch to avoid showing <tt>^S</tt> and <tt>^Q</tt> + options in nano-tiny, as using those can cause problems on + some d-i environments, like installs over serial console + (#915017).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>network-console: + <ul> + <li>Drop “beep” support for arm*/ixp4xx and arm*/iop32x; it was + used to notify users their devices was ready to be installed, + but support for those platforms was removed from the Linux + kernel and therefore d-i (#921951).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>partman-base: + <ul> + <li>Make sure UUIDs are available in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ so that + the bootloader can be configured to use them (#852323).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>partman-lvm: + <ul> + <li>Really fix invalid characters in volume group names + (#911036), the the previous attempt was not entirely + functional (#922230, #922100).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>partman-partitioning: + <ul> + <li>Use GPT by default on armhf/efi, MSDOS otherwise.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>rootskel: + <ul> + <li>Make theme=dark install and enable Compiz in MATE.</li> + <li>Make theme=dark make grub use a dark theme.</li> + <li>Run d-i on multiple consoles independently where configured.</li> + <li>Add error-handling to steal-ctty.</li> + <li>Add early logging so we can later see what consoles are detected + and chosen.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>rootskel-gtk: + <ul> + <li>Integrate Buster theme: futureprototype.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>systemd: + <ul> + <li>udev: Run programs in the specified order (#925190).</li> + <li>udev: Prevent mass killings when not running under systemd + (#918764).</li> + </ul> + </li> +</ul> + + +<h2>Hardware support changes</h2> + +<ul> + <li>base-installer: + <ul> + <li>Make armhf/efi work like armhf/generic for picking + kernels.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>debian-installer: + <ul> + <li>armel: Delete unused package list for ixp4xx (#921951).</li> + <li>armhf: Add images for Novena.</li> + <li>armhf: Add images for BananaPiM2Berry.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>flash-kernel: + <ul> + <li>Add machine db entry for Rock64 (#906696).</li> + <li>Add machine db entry for Banana Pi M2 Berry (#923483).</li> + <li>Add machine db entry for Pine A64 LTS board (#923655).</li> + <li>Add machine db entry for Olimex A64 Teres-I (#926071).</li> + <li>Add machine db entries for Raspberry Pi 1, Pi Zero and Pi 3 + Compute Module (#921518).</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>libdebian-installer: + <ul> + <li>Make all arm32 machines with EFI show up as subarch efi.</li> + </ul> + </li> + <li>linux: + <ul> + <li>[armel] add spi-orion to mtd.udeb to be able to access spi + flash on e.g. qnap ts-21x (#920607).</li> + <li>[armel] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules.</li> + <li>[arm64,armhf] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules to Provides of + kernel-image.</li> + <li>[armhf,riscv64,s390x] udeb: Add cdrom-core-modules.</li> + <li>[arm64,armhf,ia64,riscv64,sparc64] udeb: Add + usb-serial-modules (#903824).</li> + <li>[arm64] udeb: Use generic ata-modules.</li> + <li>[arm64] udeb: Remove redundant lines from nic-modules.</li> + <li>udeb: Add virtio-gpu into d-i to get graphical output in VM + instances.</li> + <li>udeb: Add scsi-nic-modules containing Chelsio and Qlogic + iSCSI/FC drivers.</li> + <li>udeb: Add fb-modules and include drm and drm_kms_helper on + most architectures.</li> + <li>udeb: Move basic PV modules from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to + kernel-image.</li> + <li>udeb: Move drivers from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to + {fb,input,nic,scsi}-modules.</li> + <li>udeb: Make nic-wireless-modules depend on mmc-core-modules, + not mmc-modules; move crc7 to crc-modules to avoid + duplication.</li> + <li>udeb: Make serial_cs optional in serial-modules.</li> + </ul> + </li> +</ul> + + +<h2>Localization status</h2> + +<ul> + <li>76 languages are supported in this release.</li> + <li>Full translation for 38 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> |