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Debian Installer Changelog

What's new in Debian Installer 10 Alpha 1

Sep 4, 2017
  • 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.

New in Debian Installer 9.0 RC3 (Apr 10, 2017)

  • 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/Réunion (#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.

New in Debian Installer 9.0 Alpha 7 (Jul 4, 2016)

  • Improvements in this release:
  • 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.

New in Debian Installer 9.0 Alpha 6 (May 22, 2016)

  • Important changes in this release of the installer:
  • * This release fixes the package installation issue which appeared lately with the previous alpha release (#814343).
  • * Debian Pure Blends can now be enabled directly from the Software selection screen. This might change in a later release though (#758116).
  • Improvements in this release:
  • * brltty:
  • Install MATE desktop by default when brltty is used in d-i.
  • Disable auto-detection of Cebra, Albatross, and BrailleMemo devices in d-i, since they are rare and conflict with other devices (#782732).
  • prebaseconfig: Enable screen reader in KDE.
  • prebaseconfig: Support 4th bootline parameter.
  • brltty-udeb.udev.rules: Add new USB IDs.
  • * cdebconf:
  • gtk: Auto-scroll when switching between entries.
  • text: Print one screen worth of choices, and use +/- to switch between choices screens (#809739).
  • * debian-installer:
  • Bump linux kernel version from 4.3.0-1 to 4.5.0-2.
  • * espeakup:
  • Add support for multiboard systems: request the user to press enter at the right time to select a given board.
  • Improve language/voice lookup.
  • Install MATE desktop by default when espeakup is used in d-i.
  • * flash-kernel:
  • Avoid waiting for Ctrl-c when debconf is running (#791794).
  • * net-retriever:
  • Concentrate on SHA256 now, following archive-side changes.
  • * netcfg:
  • Improve behaviour when user-submitted input contains spaces (#818611).
  • Improve error checking in various places.
  • * network-console:
  • Improve support for multiple addresses (#816600).
  • * parted:
  • Fix problems with LVM and DASD devices (#814076).
  • * partman-auto:
  • Bump space requirements for a lot of recipes (#725642).
  • * partman-basicfilesystems:
  • Call mkfs.ext2 with -F to avoid hangs (#817174).
  • * partman-ext3:
  • Call mkfs.ext[34] with -F to avoid hangs (#767682).
  • * preseed:
  • Invert env-preseed and initrd-preseed so that the former overrides the latter (#805291).
  • url: correctly handle IPv6 addresses (#815166).
  • * rootskel:
  • Add GNU/screen support, when it's available.
  • * s390-zfcp:
  • New component to activate and configure FCP devices (#808041).
  • * wget:
  • Add udeb support, for later user.
  • * win32-loader:
  • Switch signature checking from MD5 to SHA256.
  • Improve support for new versions of Windows (#775055).
  • Hardware support changes:
  • * debian-installer:
  • Provide u-boot images for OpenRD.
  • Use marvell flavour for orion5x and kirkwood.
  • Include mtd-modules in various images.
  • Generate image for Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
  • Improve armel/orion5x and armel/kirkwood for many different Buffalo Linkstation devices.
  • Add support for Firefly-RK3288.
  • Add support for BeagleBoard-X15.
  • ARM: sunxi: Add support for the Olimex A20-SOM-EVB.
  • Add sata-modules for arm64.
  • * grub-installer:
  • Install grub-xen when installing in a Xen PV guest.
  • * hw-detect:
  • Improve and split harddrive detection into DASD and SCSI dependency on s390x (#818586).
  • * libdebian-installer:
  • armel: Add various orion5x/kirkwood based Buffalo Linkstation devices supported by device-tree.
  • * linux:
  • [armhf] usb-modules: Add modules required for BeagleBoard-X15 (#815848).
  • [mips*/octeon] udeb: Add ahci_octeon and ahci_platform modules to sata-modules.
  • [arm64] udeb: Add leds-modules package containing leds-gpio driver.
  • [arm64] udeb: Add regulators and SoC modules to core-modules.
  • [x86] udeb: Move scsi_transport_fc to scsi-core-modules, since hv_storvsc now depends on it.
  • [armhf] core-modules: Include regulator drivers by default.
  • mmc-modules: Include MMC controller drivers by default.
  • mmc-modules: Depends on usb-modules.
  • usb-modules: Include USB PHY drivers by default.
  • udeb: Combine scsi-{common,extra}-modules with scsi-modules.
  • udeb: Use wildcards to include entire classes of drivers.
  • udeb: Remove some obsolete drivers from nic-modules: Remove FDDI and HIPPI drivers, and inet_lro module.
  • udeb: Remove some obsolete drivers from nic-pcmcia-modules: Remove Arcnet drivers.
  • udeb: Move most USB wireless drivers from nic-usb-modules to nic-wireless-modules.
  • Extend ARM64 support: add amd-xgbe to nic-modules and ahci_platform to sata-modules.
  • [armhf] Add support for BCM2836 and Raspberry Pi 2: Add sdhci-bcm2835 to mmc-modules, dwc2 to usb-modules.
  • udeb: Make md-modules depend on crc-modules (#807661).
  • udeb: Add hid-logitech-hidpp to input-modules (#796096).
  • [s390x] udeb: include modules to mount ISOs (loop device).
  • [s390x] udeb: include btrfs-modules (#812340).
  • [armhf] udeb: Include usbhid in input-modules (#809521).
  • * micro-evtd:
  • Support device-tree enabled kernel.
  • * network-console:
  • Change LED to indicate SSH is ready on Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
  • Remove Cobalt support.
  • * oldsys-preseed:
  • Add support for device tree based Buffalo Linkstation (#814342).
  • * rootskel:
  • s390x: Do not always halt the machine after installation (#813519).
  • change LED to indicate d-i status on Seagate Personal Cloud and Seagate NAS.
  • * s390-netdevice:
  • qeth: ask for the relative OSA port number (#813033).
  • qeth: remove portname (#813030).
  • qeth: substitute layer and port number in qeth/confirm template (#813121).
  • netdevice: correct stack corruption due to numerous devices (#813089).
  • * u-boot:
  • Fixes eMMC boot selection on BeagleBone Black.
  • Add u-boot-rpi package for Raspberry pi systems (rpi on armel, rpi_2 on armhf).
  • u-boot-sunxi: Enable orangepi_plus target.
  • armel: Enable openrd_base, openrd_client and openrd_ultimate (#810790).
  • u-boot-omap: Add support for AM57xx boards.
  • Fix gmac ethernet on sunxi systems (#818621).
  • * yaboot:
  • Support ppc64 architecture (#322540).
  • Load kernel and ramdisk at a lowest possible address (#719479).
  • Support iscsi and pSeries (#641852).
  • Correct ofpath discovery on newer kernels (#784387).
  • Localization status:
  • * 75 languages are supported in this release.
  • * Full translation for 5 of them.

New in Debian Installer 9.0 Alpha 3 (Sep 14, 2015)

  • 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 this release:
  • 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.

New in Debian Installer 9.0 Alpha 2 (Aug 16, 2015)

  • The biggest change in this release is the update of the linux kernel, from the 4.0 series to the 4.1 one.
  • debian-installer:
  • Fix missing "Rescue" menu in "Advanced options" for multi-arch image (#793118).
  • Replace ttf-cjk-compact-udeb with fonts-android-udeb (#794432). This should ensure no glyphs are missing for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Please report any issues with these languages!
  • oldsys-preseed:
  • Use DHCP by default on LaCie devices.
  • systemd/udev-udeb:
  • Stop copying 70-persistent-* rules (net.ifnames is the default).
  • Restore "notice" log level for udevd in the installer.
  • u-boot:
  • u-boot-sunxi: enable Mini-X target (#787266).
  • Add support for Tegra Jetson TK-1 (#788689).
  • u-boot now has fw_env.config examples for mx6cuboxi and wandboard (#786877).

New in Debian Installer 7.0 RC1 (Feb 18, 2013)

  • brltty:
  • Fix support for the theme=dark accessibility option (#696972).
  • Enable orca in gnome3 sessions too.
  • Please note: the gdm3 prompt isn’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 it’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).

New in Debian Installer 7.0 Beta 4 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • 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).