Debian Installer 7.0 - Changelog

What's new in Debian Installer 7.0 RC1:

February 18th, 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).

What's new in Debian Installer 7.0 Beta 4:

November 23rd, 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).