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


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

* apt-setup:
- Disable cdrom sources if installation medium is not a real CD (USB
stick, SD card, ISO file), because APT cannot use it after the
installation (#1102140, #1103650).
- Allow preseeding extra options for the local sources.list lines.
* busybox:
- Remove wget applet (#1107392).
* choose-mirror:
- Update Mirrors.masterlist.
* debian-cd:
- Record which firmware packages are embedded in the modified initrds
(#1106005).
- Make sure systemd-cryptsetup is available (#1092977).
* debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.12.33+deb13.
- Fix Japanese rendering support, with many thanks to Kentaro HAYASHI:
add fonts-motoya-l-cedar-udeb to gtk-common (#1037256).
- Stop setting DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS = --force-overwrite (#1107392).
- Improve support for speech synthesis, embedding some i915-related
modules on amd64, for graphical targets.
* grub-installer:
- Set force-efi-extra-removable to "true" by default in some cases,
which should help in cases where EFI firmware does not manage EFI
boot variables properly.
* partman-crypto:
- Install systemd-cryptsetup alongside cryptsetup-initramfs. While
the latter is sufficient if one picks guided partitioning with an
encrypted LVM layout, other use cases might require the former,
originally bundled together within systemd (#1092977).
* rescue:
- Add suport for rescuing btrfs systems installed via the Calamares
installer found on Debian Live images.
* rootskel-gtk:
- Adapt installer banner image to the most recent iteration of the
Ceratopsian theme.
- Fix Japanese rendering support by switching from VL Gothic to
MotoyaLCedar, also bumping font size (#1037256).
* systemd-boot-installer:
- Install shim-signed on amd64/arm64 to enable Secure Boot.


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

* console-setup:
- Add support for Apple MTP keyboard and Apple SPI Keyboard, as found
on ARM-based Apple laptops like M1 MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air
(#1108360).
* linux:
- [amd64] Add drivers/pinctrl/intel to kernel-image udeb (#1106658).


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

* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 31 of them.


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. 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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