• Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

    From Cyril Brulebois@21:1/5 to All on Tue Dec 31 17:20:02 2024
    XPost: linux.debian.maint.boot

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


    Foreword
    ========

    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
    =================================

    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
    ===================

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


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

    * 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
    =========================

    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
    ======

    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 ([email protected]) <https://debamax.com/>
    D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant

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