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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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