Debian Installer

Debian Installer is an open source project, a collection of many small utilities that allow Debian users to install a Debian-based operating system.

Debian is a distinguished open source GNU/Linux operating system for your personal computer.

What is new in this release:

• Important notes for this release of the installer
• On the graphical installer side, a workaround has been applied to retain the historical rendering, since the default rendering changed heavily in recent fontconfig and freetype releases. It isn't bit for bit identical to what we had in Stretch, but it looks very close. Later, we'll need to figure out how to compare both renderings (improvements, regressions, different issues, etc.) for as many languages as possible. This is going to be tracked in #873462.
• Since mips64el has been suffering from toolchain issues for several weeks (#871514), it was decided not to publish any images for this architecture.
• Improvements in this release[/]
• debian-installer:
• Build against buster.
• Stop build-depending on *-pic libraries, due to the switch to mklibs-copy.
• Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.9.0-3 to 4.12.0-1. network-console:
• Create an sshd user to cope with privilege separation, which became mandatory in recent OpenSSH releases.
• os-prober:
• Fix EFI check for ID_PART_ENTRY_SCHEME: look for "dos" instead of "msdos" (#817023).
• partman-auto-lvm:
• Fix check by using -e instead of stat (#759553).
• partman-auto-raid:
• Allow using a logical volume as /boot when partman-auto-lvm/no_boot=true (See: #610377).
• partman-base:
• For systems that are known to have their boot firmware on an mmcblk device, protect the firmware area on all mmcblk devices (and not only on mmcblk0) from being clobbered during guided partitioning (#854822).
• partman-partitioning:
• Make get_real_device() both simpler and more generic by mimicking the linux kernel's disk_name function (See: #820818).
• rescue:
• Invoke search-path by absolute path in chroot_has (#867564).
• rootskel:
• Create /run on non-linux too, for screen support.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Increase font size of mr_IN locale (#863952).
• systemd:
• Fix missing 60-input-id.rules in udev-udeb, which breaks the graphical version of the Debian Installer, as no key presses or mouse events get processed (#872598).
• user-setup:
• Cope with a different disabled root password ("!*") in /etc/shadow as well as the normal unset one ("*"), fixing a major bug in the live installer (#866206).
• win32-loader:
• Replace all mirror URLs with deb.debian.org
• Hardware support changes
• debian-installer:
• Drop orion5x-qnap images.
• flash-kernel:
• Add a machine db entry for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (#869488).
• Add a machine db entry for the Firefly-RK3399.
• Add a machine db entry for the Radxa Rock 2 Square (#868166).
• Add machine db entries for various sunxi-based systems that are (at least partially) supported in kernel 4.12 and u-boot
• v2017.07-rc3: Banana Pi BPI-M2-Plus, FriendlyArm NanoPi M1, FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO Air, Lichee Pi Zero, NextThing C.H.I.P. Pro, Xunlong Orange Pi Zero.
• Add a machine db entry for the BeagleBone Green (#866822).
• grub-installer:
• Really add support for JBOD systems with a large number of discs (#839894).
• libdebian-installer:
• mips: Add support for checking the "isa" field, and use it as
• fallback for unknown CPUs (#865425).
• mips: Drop unsupported subarchitectures.
• linux:
• [armhf] udeb: Replace imx-ipuv3-crtc with imxdrm in fb-modules.
• [armhf] udeb: Add sunxi_wdt to kernel-image (#866130).
• udeb: Add dm-raid to md-modules (#868251).
• [arm64,armhf] udeb: Ship usb3503 module in usb-modules, needed for e.g. Arndale development boards (#865645).
• Localization status
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 25 of them.

What is new in version 9.2.0 / 10 Alpha 1:

• Important notes for this release of the installer
• On the graphical installer side, a workaround has been applied to retain the historical rendering, since the default rendering changed heavily in recent fontconfig and freetype releases. It isn't bit for bit identical to what we had in Stretch, but it looks very close. Later, we'll need to figure out how to compare both renderings (improvements, regressions, different issues, etc.) for as many languages as possible. This is going to be tracked in #873462.
• Since mips64el has been suffering from toolchain issues for several weeks (#871514), it was decided not to publish any images for this architecture.
• Improvements in this release[/]
• debian-installer:
• Build against buster.
• Stop build-depending on *-pic libraries, due to the switch to mklibs-copy.
• Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.9.0-3 to 4.12.0-1. network-console:
• Create an sshd user to cope with privilege separation, which became mandatory in recent OpenSSH releases.
• os-prober:
• Fix EFI check for ID_PART_ENTRY_SCHEME: look for "dos" instead of "msdos" (#817023).
• partman-auto-lvm:
• Fix check by using -e instead of stat (#759553).
• partman-auto-raid:
• Allow using a logical volume as /boot when partman-auto-lvm/no_boot=true (See: #610377).
• partman-base:
• For systems that are known to have their boot firmware on an mmcblk device, protect the firmware area on all mmcblk devices (and not only on mmcblk0) from being clobbered during guided partitioning (#854822).
• partman-partitioning:
• Make get_real_device() both simpler and more generic by mimicking the linux kernel's disk_name function (See: #820818).
• rescue:
• Invoke search-path by absolute path in chroot_has (#867564).
• rootskel:
• Create /run on non-linux too, for screen support.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Increase font size of mr_IN locale (#863952).
• systemd:
• Fix missing 60-input-id.rules in udev-udeb, which breaks the graphical version of the Debian Installer, as no key presses or mouse events get processed (#872598).
• user-setup:
• Cope with a different disabled root password ("!*") in /etc/shadow as well as the normal unset one ("*"), fixing a major bug in the live installer (#866206).
• win32-loader:
• Replace all mirror URLs with deb.debian.org
• Hardware support changes
• debian-installer:
• Drop orion5x-qnap images.
• flash-kernel:
• Add a machine db entry for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (#869488).
• Add a machine db entry for the Firefly-RK3399.
• Add a machine db entry for the Radxa Rock 2 Square (#868166).
• Add machine db entries for various sunxi-based systems that are (at least partially) supported in kernel 4.12 and u-boot
• v2017.07-rc3: Banana Pi BPI-M2-Plus, FriendlyArm NanoPi M1, FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO Air, Lichee Pi Zero, NextThing C.H.I.P. Pro, Xunlong Orange Pi Zero.
• Add a machine db entry for the BeagleBone Green (#866822).
• grub-installer:
• Really add support for JBOD systems with a large number of discs (#839894).
• libdebian-installer:
• mips: Add support for checking the "isa" field, and use it as
• fallback for unknown CPUs (#865425).
• mips: Drop unsupported subarchitectures.
• linux:
• [armhf] udeb: Replace imx-ipuv3-crtc with imxdrm in fb-modules.
• [armhf] udeb: Add sunxi_wdt to kernel-image (#866130).
• udeb: Add dm-raid to md-modules (#868251).
• [arm64,armhf] udeb: Ship usb3503 module in usb-modules, needed for e.g. Arndale development boards (#865645).
• Localization status
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 25 of them.

What is new in version 9.0.0 / 10 Alpha 1:

• Important notes for this release of the installer
• On the graphical installer side, a workaround has been applied to retain the historical rendering, since the default rendering changed heavily in recent fontconfig and freetype releases. It isn't bit for bit identical to what we had in Stretch, but it looks very close. Later, we'll need to figure out how to compare both renderings (improvements, regressions, different issues, etc.) for as many languages as possible. This is going to be tracked in #873462.
• Since mips64el has been suffering from toolchain issues for several weeks (#871514), it was decided not to publish any images for this architecture.
• Improvements in this release[/]
• debian-installer:
• Build against buster.
• Stop build-depending on *-pic libraries, due to the switch to mklibs-copy.
• Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.9.0-3 to 4.12.0-1. network-console:
• Create an sshd user to cope with privilege separation, which became mandatory in recent OpenSSH releases.
• os-prober:
• Fix EFI check for ID_PART_ENTRY_SCHEME: look for "dos" instead of "msdos" (#817023).
• partman-auto-lvm:
• Fix check by using -e instead of stat (#759553).
• partman-auto-raid:
• Allow using a logical volume as /boot when partman-auto-lvm/no_boot=true (See: #610377).
• partman-base:
• For systems that are known to have their boot firmware on an mmcblk device, protect the firmware area on all mmcblk devices (and not only on mmcblk0) from being clobbered during guided partitioning (#854822).
• partman-partitioning:
• Make get_real_device() both simpler and more generic by mimicking the linux kernel's disk_name function (See: #820818).
• rescue:
• Invoke search-path by absolute path in chroot_has (#867564).
• rootskel:
• Create /run on non-linux too, for screen support.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Increase font size of mr_IN locale (#863952).
• systemd:
• Fix missing 60-input-id.rules in udev-udeb, which breaks the graphical version of the Debian Installer, as no key presses or mouse events get processed (#872598).
• user-setup:
• Cope with a different disabled root password ("!*") in /etc/shadow as well as the normal unset one ("*"), fixing a major bug in the live installer (#866206).
• win32-loader:
• Replace all mirror URLs with deb.debian.org
• Hardware support changes
• debian-installer:
• Drop orion5x-qnap images.
• flash-kernel:
• Add a machine db entry for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (#869488).
• Add a machine db entry for the Firefly-RK3399.
• Add a machine db entry for the Radxa Rock 2 Square (#868166).
• Add machine db entries for various sunxi-based systems that are (at least partially) supported in kernel 4.12 and u-boot
• v2017.07-rc3: Banana Pi BPI-M2-Plus, FriendlyArm NanoPi M1, FriendlyARM NanoPi NEO Air, Lichee Pi Zero, NextThing C.H.I.P. Pro, Xunlong Orange Pi Zero.
• Add a machine db entry for the BeagleBone Green (#866822).
• grub-installer:
• Really add support for JBOD systems with a large number of discs (#839894).
• libdebian-installer:
• mips: Add support for checking the "isa" field, and use it as
• fallback for unknown CPUs (#865425).
• mips: Drop unsupported subarchitectures.
• linux:
• [armhf] udeb: Replace imx-ipuv3-crtc with imxdrm in fb-modules.
• [armhf] udeb: Add sunxi_wdt to kernel-image (#866130).
• udeb: Add dm-raid to md-modules (#868251).
• [arm64,armhf] udeb: Ship usb3503 module in usb-modules, needed for e.g. Arndale development boards (#865645).
• Localization status
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 25 of them.

What is new in version 9.0.0:

• Improvements:
• anna:
• Use SHA256 for verification (#856211).
• base-installer:
• Log all debootstrap arguments.
• Try harder to install apt-transport-https and ca-certificates when they're needed (#855035).
• Propagate local certificates using the same logic.
• brltty:
• Fix baum driver restarting when typing too fast on Vario Ultra device (#857558).
• choose-mirror:
• Fix FTBFS with UTF-8 entities in mirror list, e.g. RE/Reunion (#857545).
• clock-setup:
• Only call sed on /etc/default/rcS to adjust UTC setting when this file exists (#854924).
• debian-installer:
• Bump Linux kernel version from 4.9.0-1 to 4.9.0-2.
• Fix missing speech synthesis menu entries on some i386 images.
• Make syslinux and EFI boot menus uniform, emphasizing graphical entries.
• Add speech synthesis entries for expert, rescue, and automated install; and make shortcuts point to them.
• debian-installer-utils:
• Propagate dot-containing options to target kernel command line (#853855).
• Set User-Agent to "debian-installer" when calling wget (#850800).
• debootstrap:
• Strip the arch-qualifier (#836525).
• Instead of creating a /dev/ptmx -> pts/ptmx symlink unconditionally, try "mknod c 5 2" first, and fall back to a symlink only if it fails. This should help with various tools like pbuilder, sbuild, and schroot (#817236).
• fonts-android:
• Fix support for Korean glyphs by shipping DroidSansFallback.ttf instead of DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf in the fonts-android-udeb package (#853921).
• grub2:
• Make grub-install check for errors from efibootmgr (#853234).
• installation-locale:
• C.UTF-8.in: change LC_IDENTIFICATION to i18n:2012 (#837004).
• libdebian-installer:
• Parse SHA256 fields in Packages files (#856210).
• Parse SHA256 fields in Release files.
• Update versions for changed symbols. Please note that packages impacted by this change were checked within Debian. Derivative distributions might want to double check their packages.
• lilo-installer:
• Fix sfdisk arguments (#855489).
• partman-auto-crypto:
• Implement a preseedable way to skip disk erase (#476388).
• rootskel:
• Avoid registering options for non-modules (#853855). The non-modules list is based on the kernel-command-line(7) manpage.
• Update gtk lowmem limits.
• screen:
• Fix terminal garbage in Debian Installer over serial line (#857808).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• Add support for ports which aren't scheduled to be released by looking at an extra unreleased suite where patched or port-specific components are made available, and use unstable instead of testing as a base suite. This fixes the long standing FTBFS on non-released ports (#852215). Please note that other changes related to non-released ports are usually not covered in release announcements.
• Add fb-modules to some loongson-3 configurations (#854553).
• powerpc: Add virtio modules to cdrom/netboot images (#767487).
• flash-kernel:
• Add machine db entry for TI OMAP4 PandaBoard-ES (#857205).
• Add machine db entry for NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo v2 (#855960).
• Add machine db entry for Hardkernel ODROID-C2 (#845818).
• grub-installer:
• Fix grub-xen installation in Xen environments (#854082).
• Use 'p' (not '-part') as multipath disk-partition separator. This fixes the check of whether the boot file system is on multipath.
• Better handling of PReP partitions on ppc64el: prefer PReP partition on the same disk as the boot file system partition.
• hw-detect:
• disk-detect: stop trying to load dm-emc (#852285).
• disk-detect: match 'mpath[a-z]+' instead of 'mpath[0-9]+' since multipath-tools changed behaviour regarding mpath device names (#806713, #854565).
• disk-detect: run update-dev before probing for devices (#843895).
• libdebian-installer:
• Add support for NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo v2 (#855965).
• linux:
• udeb: Add more USB host and dual-role drivers to usb-modules (#856111).
• udeb/arm64: Add ast to fb-modules (#820168).
• udeb: Add bcache to md-modules (#718548).
• partman-base:
• Update support for more recent output of 'multipath -l'.
• Accept spaces in multipath WWID.
• partman-partitioning:
• Fix resizing an NVMe device (#820818).
• systemd:
• udev: Fix by-id symlinks for devices whose IDs contain whitespace (#851164).
• udev: Fix /dev/disk/by-path aliases for virtio disks (#856558).
• udev/s390x: Create persistent net names for virtio CCW devices (#856559).
• u-boot:
• armel: Support for openrd targets has been fixed and enabled again (#856441). Please note that this needs to be enabled again in debian-installer as well.

What is new in version 8.6.0 / 9.0 Alpha 8:

• Improvements in version 8.6.0 / 9.0 Alpha 8:
• debian-installer:
• Bump Linux kernel version from 4.5.0-2 to 4.6.0-1.
• Bump kfreebsd (kernel) version to 10.3.
• Produce two beeps when booted with grub instead of one, so the user knows she has to use the grub way to edit entries.
• syslinux:
• Fix input on the boot prompt being ignored (#823459).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• Add u-boot config script for Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
• Use XZ compression for QNAP on Kirkwood due to size restrictions.
• Mark fb-modules as required for armhf's netboot-gtk flavour.
• ARM: orion5x: Add a few Linkstation devices to netboot target.
• ARM: orion5x: Change initrd to XZ compression for all orion5x-based Linkstation devices.
• Add mipsel octeon images.
• Drop mipsel cobalt support.
• Add mips64el support.
• Drop mipsel/loongson-2e and mipsel/loongson-2f images.
• hw-detect:
• Stop trying to install obsolete optimized libc packages (libc6-i686 and libc6-sparcv9b).
• Embed a filename-to-package mapping for firmwares, to be used at a later point.
• libdebian-installer:
• Add mips64el support.
• Add EFI detection on armhf.
• Check both efivars and vars under /sys/firmware/efi to decide whether EFI mode is enabled (#826665).
• linux:
• [arm64] udeb: Add fb-modules.
• [mips*/*-malta] udeb: Add ata-modules package.
• network-console:
• Remove more Cobalt-related code.
• rootskel:
• Remove NSLU2 support code.
• u-boot:
• Add Jetson TX1 (P2371-2180) target (#825458).
• Add arm64 arch.
• Fix guruplug.config (#781873).
• Add odroid-xu3 target, tested on Odroid-XU4.
• u-boot-omap: Add support for dra74_evm (#824730).
• Fix voltages used on several OlinuXino Lime board variants (#825214).
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for none of them (due to a recently discovered
• bug), but 66 languages have a mostly completed translation.

What is new in version 8.6.0 / 9.0 Alpha 7:

• Improvements in version 8.6.0 / 9.0 Alpha 7:
• debian-installer:
• Bump Linux kernel version from 4.5.0-2 to 4.6.0-1.
• Bump kfreebsd (kernel) version to 10.3.
• Produce two beeps when booted with grub instead of one, so the user knows she has to use the grub way to edit entries.
• syslinux:
• Fix input on the boot prompt being ignored (#823459).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• Add u-boot config script for Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
• Use XZ compression for QNAP on Kirkwood due to size restrictions.
• Mark fb-modules as required for armhf's netboot-gtk flavour.
• ARM: orion5x: Add a few Linkstation devices to netboot target.
• ARM: orion5x: Change initrd to XZ compression for all orion5x-based Linkstation devices.
• Add mipsel octeon images.
• Drop mipsel cobalt support.
• Add mips64el support.
• Drop mipsel/loongson-2e and mipsel/loongson-2f images.
• hw-detect:
• Stop trying to install obsolete optimized libc packages (libc6-i686 and libc6-sparcv9b).
• Embed a filename-to-package mapping for firmwares, to be used at a later point.
• libdebian-installer:
• Add mips64el support.
• Add EFI detection on armhf.
• Check both efivars and vars under /sys/firmware/efi to decide whether EFI mode is enabled (#826665).
• linux:
• [arm64] udeb: Add fb-modules.
• [mips*/*-malta] udeb: Add ata-modules package.
• network-console:
• Remove more Cobalt-related code.
• rootskel:
• Remove NSLU2 support code.
• u-boot:
• Add Jetson TX1 (P2371-2180) target (#825458).
• Add arm64 arch.
• Fix guruplug.config (#781873).
• Add odroid-xu3 target, tested on Odroid-XU4.
• u-boot-omap: Add support for dra74_evm (#824730).
• Fix voltages used on several OlinuXino Lime board variants (#825214).
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for none of them (due to a recently discovered
• bug), but 66 languages have a mostly completed translation.

What is new in version 8.5.0 / 9.0 Alpha 7:

• Improvements in version 8.5.0 / 9.0 Alpha 7:
• debian-installer:
• Bump Linux kernel version from 4.5.0-2 to 4.6.0-1.
• Bump kfreebsd (kernel) version to 10.3.
• Produce two beeps when booted with grub instead of one, so the user knows she has to use the grub way to edit entries.
• syslinux:
• Fix input on the boot prompt being ignored (#823459).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• Add u-boot config script for Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
• Use XZ compression for QNAP on Kirkwood due to size restrictions.
• Mark fb-modules as required for armhf's netboot-gtk flavour.
• ARM: orion5x: Add a few Linkstation devices to netboot target.
• ARM: orion5x: Change initrd to XZ compression for all orion5x-based Linkstation devices.
• Add mipsel octeon images.
• Drop mipsel cobalt support.
• Add mips64el support.
• Drop mipsel/loongson-2e and mipsel/loongson-2f images.
• hw-detect:
• Stop trying to install obsolete optimized libc packages (libc6-i686 and libc6-sparcv9b).
• Embed a filename-to-package mapping for firmwares, to be used at a later point.
• libdebian-installer:
• Add mips64el support.
• Add EFI detection on armhf.
• Check both efivars and vars under /sys/firmware/efi to decide whether EFI mode is enabled (#826665).
• linux:
• [arm64] udeb: Add fb-modules.
• [mips*/*-malta] udeb: Add ata-modules package.
• network-console:
• Remove more Cobalt-related code.
• rootskel:
• Remove NSLU2 support code.
• u-boot:
• Add Jetson TX1 (P2371-2180) target (#825458).
• Add arm64 arch.
• Fix guruplug.config (#781873).
• Add odroid-xu3 target, tested on Odroid-XU4.
• u-boot-omap: Add support for dra74_evm (#824730).
• Fix voltages used on several OlinuXino Lime board variants (#825214).
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for none of them (due to a recently discovered
• bug), but 66 languages have a mostly completed translation.

What is new in version 8.5.0 / 9.0 Alpha 6:

• Priorities were updated for a number of packages, which leads to a different package set being installed by default, as discussed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00089.html
• partman-crypto: Fix non-preseeded Encrypted LVM installs (#793643).
• syslinux: Work around issues with gcc 5 leading to unbootable mini.iso images
• (#795596, #795777).
• Improvements in version 8.5.0 / 9.0 Alpha 6:
• debian-installer:
• Add beep to UEFI x86 boot menu (#796591).
• Add 's' shortcut (for speech synthesis) to UEFI x86 boot menu.
• Multi-arch CD: Use ifcpu64.c32 to implement 64-bit detection, and rework the menus accordingly.
• debian-cd:
• Fix missing kernel and initramfs in armel and armhf images (#795844).
• ethdetect:
• Don't look for Linux USB net drivers under drivers/usb
• Use embedded module description for modules not listed in devnames-static.txt
• Exclude PHY drivers from list of net drivers.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Remove the '8' from banner files to avoid confusion, as we're still using the Jessie theme for Stretch pre-releases (#793125).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• mips: Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32, and sb1-bcm91250a images.
• mipsel: Drop sb1-bcm91250a images.
• linux:
• [i386] Add gpio_keys_polled, leds-gpio to input-modules.
• Add virtio-input to input-modules.
• Add toshsd to mmc-modules.
• Add wd719x to scsi-extra-modules.
• Move eeprom_93cx6 to core-modules.
• Make scsi-extra-modules depend on core-modules.
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 14 of them.

What is new in version 8.3.0 / 9.0 Alpha 5:

• Priorities were updated for a number of packages, which leads to a different package set being installed by default, as discussed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00089.html
• partman-crypto: Fix non-preseeded Encrypted LVM installs (#793643).
• syslinux: Work around issues with gcc 5 leading to unbootable mini.iso images
• (#795596, #795777).
• Improvements in version 8.3.0 / 9.0 Alpha 5:
• debian-installer:
• Add beep to UEFI x86 boot menu (#796591).
• Add 's' shortcut (for speech synthesis) to UEFI x86 boot menu.
• Multi-arch CD: Use ifcpu64.c32 to implement 64-bit detection, and rework the menus accordingly.
• debian-cd:
• Fix missing kernel and initramfs in armel and armhf images (#795844).
• ethdetect:
• Don't look for Linux USB net drivers under drivers/usb
• Use embedded module description for modules not listed in devnames-static.txt
• Exclude PHY drivers from list of net drivers.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Remove the '8' from banner files to avoid confusion, as we're still using the Jessie theme for Stretch pre-releases (#793125).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• mips: Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32, and sb1-bcm91250a images.
• mipsel: Drop sb1-bcm91250a images.
• linux:
• [i386] Add gpio_keys_polled, leds-gpio to input-modules.
• Add virtio-input to input-modules.
• Add toshsd to mmc-modules.
• Add wd719x to scsi-extra-modules.
• Move eeprom_93cx6 to core-modules.
• Make scsi-extra-modules depend on core-modules.
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 14 of them.

What is new in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 5:

• Priorities were updated for a number of packages, which leads to a different package set being installed by default, as discussed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00089.html
• partman-crypto: Fix non-preseeded Encrypted LVM installs (#793643).
• syslinux: Work around issues with gcc 5 leading to unbootable mini.iso images
• (#795596, #795777).
• Improvements in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 5:
• debian-installer:
• Add beep to UEFI x86 boot menu (#796591).
• Add 's' shortcut (for speech synthesis) to UEFI x86 boot menu.
• Multi-arch CD: Use ifcpu64.c32 to implement 64-bit detection, and rework the menus accordingly.
• debian-cd:
• Fix missing kernel and initramfs in armel and armhf images (#795844).
• ethdetect:
• Don't look for Linux USB net drivers under drivers/usb
• Use embedded module description for modules not listed in devnames-static.txt
• Exclude PHY drivers from list of net drivers.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Remove the '8' from banner files to avoid confusion, as we're still using the Jessie theme for Stretch pre-releases (#793125).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• mips: Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32, and sb1-bcm91250a images.
• mipsel: Drop sb1-bcm91250a images.
• linux:
• [i386] Add gpio_keys_polled, leds-gpio to input-modules.
• Add virtio-input to input-modules.
• Add toshsd to mmc-modules.
• Add wd719x to scsi-extra-modules.
• Move eeprom_93cx6 to core-modules.
• Make scsi-extra-modules depend on core-modules.
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 14 of them.

What is new in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 4:

• Priorities were updated for a number of packages, which leads to a different package set being installed by default, as discussed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00089.html
• partman-crypto: Fix non-preseeded Encrypted LVM installs (#793643).
• syslinux: Work around issues with gcc 5 leading to unbootable mini.iso images
• (#795596, #795777).
• Improvements in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 4:
• debian-installer:
• Add beep to UEFI x86 boot menu (#796591).
• Add 's' shortcut (for speech synthesis) to UEFI x86 boot menu.
• Multi-arch CD: Use ifcpu64.c32 to implement 64-bit detection, and rework the menus accordingly.
• debian-cd:
• Fix missing kernel and initramfs in armel and armhf images (#795844).
• ethdetect:
• Don't look for Linux USB net drivers under drivers/usb
• Use embedded module description for modules not listed in devnames-static.txt
• Exclude PHY drivers from list of net drivers.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Remove the '8' from banner files to avoid confusion, as we're still using the Jessie theme for Stretch pre-releases (#793125).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• mips: Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32, and sb1-bcm91250a images.
• mipsel: Drop sb1-bcm91250a images.
• linux:
• [i386] Add gpio_keys_polled, leds-gpio to input-modules.
• Add virtio-input to input-modules.
• Add toshsd to mmc-modules.
• Add wd719x to scsi-extra-modules.
• Move eeprom_93cx6 to core-modules.
• Make scsi-extra-modules depend on core-modules.
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 14 of them.

What is new in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 3:

• Priorities were updated for a number of packages, which leads to a different package set being installed by default, as discussed in: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00089.html
• partman-crypto: Fix non-preseeded Encrypted LVM installs (#793643).
• syslinux: Work around issues with gcc 5 leading to unbootable mini.iso images
• (#795596, #795777).
• Improvements in version 8.1.0 / 9.0 Alpha 3:
• debian-installer:
• Add beep to UEFI x86 boot menu (#796591).
• Add 's' shortcut (for speech synthesis) to UEFI x86 boot menu.
• Multi-arch CD: Use ifcpu64.c32 to implement 64-bit detection, and rework the menus accordingly.
• debian-cd:
• Fix missing kernel and initramfs in armel and armhf images (#795844).
• ethdetect:
• Don't look for Linux USB net drivers under drivers/usb
• Use embedded module description for modules not listed in devnames-static.txt
• Exclude PHY drivers from list of net drivers.
• rootskel-gtk:
• Remove the '8' from banner files to avoid confusion, as we're still using the Jessie theme for Stretch pre-releases (#793125).
• Hardware support changes:
• debian-installer:
• mips: Drop r4k-ip22, r5k-ip32, and sb1-bcm91250a images.
• mipsel: Drop sb1-bcm91250a images.
• linux:
• [i386] Add gpio_keys_polled, leds-gpio to input-modules.
• Add virtio-input to input-modules.
• Add toshsd to mmc-modules.
• Add wd719x to scsi-extra-modules.
• Move eeprom_93cx6 to core-modules.
• Make scsi-extra-modules depend on core-modules.
• Localization status:
• 75 languages are supported in this release.
• Full translation for 14 of them.

What is new in version 7.0 / 8.0 RC3:

• brltty:
• Fix support for the theme=dark accessibility option (#696972).
• Enable orca in gnome3 sessions too.
• Please note: the gdm3 prompt isna€t accessible (#694937).
• cdebconf:
• Fix display of info messages (e.g. "Rescue mode" in the banner).
• Improve speech synthesis support.
• debconf: Fix misleading man-db title for GRUB prompt (#679327).
• debian-cd:
• Improve GRUB menus used when booting in UEFI mode so they match up
• better with the equivalent syslinux menus.
• Change the default UEFI display resolution to 800x600 for maximum compatibility.
• Fix README.html generation (#699198).
• debian-installer-utils: Fix procfs mounting on GNU/kFreeBSD (#696901).
• grub2:
• Improve support for EFI installs: make sure /boot/grub exists, and copy unicode.pf2 there (#696962, #661789).
• Fix infinite recursion in gettext when translation fails (#611537 and many others).
• mountmedia:
• Revert kernel bug workaround (#694082).
• Firmware loading issues should disappear accordingly.
• netcfg: Write network-manager configuration (included wireless settings when applicable) if ita€s found in the installed system; configure ifupdown for wired networking otherwise (#682608).
• oldsys-preseed:
• Ignore a missing gateway with DHCP (#687212).
• Use netcfg/disable_autoconfig instead of netcfg/disable_dhcp (#689531).
• preseed: Deal with URLs that consist of an unqualified machine name and a port (#695908).
• qcontrol: Disable firmware watchdog on TS-219p II and TS-419p II (#693263).
• rootskel: Use the same keymap in the virtual consoles as the one selected in the graphical installer (#606395).
• xorg-server: Avoid cursor jumps in VirtualBox (#694598).
• Hardware support changes:
• linux: Add many drivers to the installer: 8021q, adm8211, at76c50x-usb, b43legacy, bnx2fc, cxgb4, cxgb4vf, fnic, igbvf, int51x1, isci, iwl4965, ixgbevf, libertas_tf_usb, micrel, mlx4_en, mwifiex_pcie, mwl8k, orinoco_usb, pata_piccolo, pch_gbe, pmcraid, prism2_usb, qlge, r8187se, r8192e_pci, r8712u, rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, rtl8192de, rtl8192se, smsc75xx, smsc9420, smsc95xx, tehuti, ums-eneub6250, ums-realtek, vt6656_stage, vxge (#686605, #689159, #690886, #694348, #695437).
• linux: Add Ralink wifi device IDs: 5362, 5392, 539b (#694312).
• linux: Add support for Lenovo 10/100 Ethernet USB dongle (#696248).

What is new in version 7.0:

• brltty:
• Fix support for the theme=dark accessibility option (#696972).
• Enable orca in gnome3 sessions too.
• Please note: the gdm3 prompt isna€t accessible (#694937).
• cdebconf:
• Fix display of info messages (e.g. "Rescue mode" in the banner).
• Improve speech synthesis support.
• debconf: Fix misleading man-db title for GRUB prompt (#679327).
• debian-cd:
• Improve GRUB menus used when booting in UEFI mode so they match up
• better with the equivalent syslinux menus.
• Change the default UEFI display resolution to 800x600 for maximum compatibility.
• Fix README.html generation (#699198).
• debian-installer-utils: Fix procfs mounting on GNU/kFreeBSD (#696901).
• grub2:
• Improve support for EFI installs: make sure /boot/grub exists, and copy unicode.pf2 there (#696962, #661789).
• Fix infinite recursion in gettext when translation fails (#611537 and many others).
• mountmedia:
• Revert kernel bug workaround (#694082).
• Firmware loading issues should disappear accordingly.
• netcfg: Write network-manager configuration (included wireless settings when applicable) if ita€s found in the installed system; configure ifupdown for wired networking otherwise (#682608).
• oldsys-preseed:
• Ignore a missing gateway with DHCP (#687212).
• Use netcfg/disable_autoconfig instead of netcfg/disable_dhcp (#689531).
• preseed: Deal with URLs that consist of an unqualified machine name and a port (#695908).
• qcontrol: Disable firmware watchdog on TS-219p II and TS-419p II (#693263).
• rootskel: Use the same keymap in the virtual consoles as the one selected in the graphical installer (#606395).
• xorg-server: Avoid cursor jumps in VirtualBox (#694598).
• Hardware support changes:
• linux: Add many drivers to the installer: 8021q, adm8211, at76c50x-usb, b43legacy, bnx2fc, cxgb4, cxgb4vf, fnic, igbvf, int51x1, isci, iwl4965, ixgbevf, libertas_tf_usb, micrel, mlx4_en, mwifiex_pcie, mwl8k, orinoco_usb, pata_piccolo, pch_gbe, pmcraid, prism2_usb, qlge, r8187se, r8192e_pci, r8712u, rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, rtl8192de, rtl8192se, smsc75xx, smsc9420, smsc95xx, tehuti, ums-eneub6250, ums-realtek, vt6656_stage, vxge (#686605, #689159, #690886, #694348, #695437).
• linux: Add Ralink wifi device IDs: 5362, 5392, 539b (#694312).
• linux: Add support for Lenovo 10/100 Ethernet USB dongle (#696248).

What is new in version 7.0 Beta 4:

• Highlights:
• Many updates to the Linux kernel.
• Many improvements in the netcfg component.
• Improvements in this release of the installer:
• console-setup: Fix support for Greek and Ethiopian layouts (#691201).
• elilo: Fix installation on ia64 (#685186).
• grub2: Fix some EFI boot failures (#687320).
• linux:
• block: Fix infinite loop which caused iso-scan to hang (#684293).
• iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000 (#689416).
• libata: Prevent interface errors with Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex.
• random: Improve random number generation on non-interactive systems.
• speakup: Lower default software speech rate (#686742).
• speakup: Fix crash on goto operation (#685953).
• tg3: Fix TSO CAP for 5704 devices with ASF enabled.
• netcfg:
• Fix dns- entries in /etc/network/interfaces (#689474).
• Kill dhcp6c after timeout unless a lease is obtained.
• Fix segfault when netcfg/enable is false.
• Prefer hostname found in netcfg/hostname (if set) over the one in DHCP/DNS.
• Temporarily disable IPv6 privacy extensions.
• Skip reachability test for empty gateway (#690868).
• Obey netcfg/disable_dhcp for compatibility reasons and disable autoconfig.
• Add a debconf template for netcfg/disable_autoconfig and state that netcfg/disable_dhcp is deprecated.
• rootskel:
• Improve speech synthesis support (#690588).
• Update lowmem limit for graphical installer.
• Hardware support changes:
• libdebian-installer: Add support for Versatile Express platform.
• linux:
• [armel/kirkwood] ahci: Add JMicron 362 device IDs (#634180).
• asix: Support DLink DUB-E100 H/W Ver C1 (#687567).
• ath9k: Add PID/VID support for AR1111.
• rt2800usb: Add more device IDs.
• udeb: Add hid-logitech-dj to input-modules (#661379).
• udeb: Add snd-hda-codec-ca0132 to sound-modules (#682368).
• udeb: Add fuse-modules to support os-prober (#684265).