The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first release
candidate of the installer for Debian 10 "Buster".
Important change in this release
================================
This release includes Secure Boot support on amd64, which should work
out of the box on most Secure Boot enabled machines. This means there
should be no need to disable Secure Boot support in the firmware
configuration anymore.
Improvements in this release
============================
* apt-setup:
- Adjust handling of media sets, improving support for Debian Edu.
* brltty:
- Add support for Hedo MobiLine.
* cdebconf:
- Disable paging in text frontend for now, espeakup does not
pronounce the keys to change pages (see
690343 and thus users
are confounded and think the first page are the only choices.
* cryptsetup:
- The on-disk LUKS format version now defaults to LUKS2
919725
* debian-installer:
- Switch to using buster artwork for the splash screen.
- Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.19.0-1 to 4.19.0-4.
- Improve build reproducibility
900918,
920631,
920676
- gen-tarball: stop using the deprecated GZIP variable.
- gen-tarball: use pigz automatically if it is available.
- Add dark theme submenu and shortcut: 'd'
820911
- Fix loading background image on netboot grub.
* debian-installer-utils:
- Stop propagating BOOTIF to the installed system
921444
* espeakup:
- Fix writing down sound card ID when the installation finishes.
* finish-install:
- Add support for multiple consoles.
* grub-installer:
- On Linux, mount/unmount /run to work around timeouts during LVM
initialization
918590
* grub2:
- Fix setup on Secure Boot systems where cryptodisk is in use
917117
- Make grub-efi-amd64-signed recommend shim-signed
919067
- Add help and ls modules to signed UEFI images
919955
- grub-install: Check for arm-efi as a default target
922104
- util: Detect more I/O errors, like insufficient space
922741
- Use libefi* libraries to minimise writes to EFI variable storage
891434 instead of depending on efibootmgr. (The latter is
expected to come back in Recommends in a later release, since
that's a useful debugging tool.)
* hw-detect:
- Use 'modprobe -qn' to query available modules
870448
* libxinerama:
- Fix udeb dependencies
921715
* linux:
- certs: Replace test signing certificate with production signing
certificate.
- certs: include both root CA and direct signing certificate
924545
* live-installer:
- Add calamares-settings-debian as package to be removed at the
end of the installation.
* nano:
- Add patch to avoid showing ^S and ^Q options in nano-tiny, as
using those can cause problems on some d-i environments, like
installs over serial console
915017
* network-console:
- Drop “beep” support for arm*/ixp4xx and arm*/iop32x; it was used
to notify users their devices was ready to be installed, but
support for those platforms was removed from the Linux kernel
and therefore d-i
921951
* partman-base:
- Make sure UUIDs are available in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ so that the
bootloader can be configured to use them
852323
* partman-lvm:
- Really fix invalid characters in volume group names
911036
the the previous attempt was not entirely functional
922230,
922100
* partman-partitioning:
- Use GPT by default on armhf/efi, MSDOS otherwise.
* rootskel:
- Make theme=dark install and enable Compiz in MATE.
- Make theme=dark make grub use a dark theme.
- Run d-i on multiple consoles independently where configured.
- Add error-handling to steal-ctty.
- Add early logging so we can later see what consoles are detected
and chosen.
* rootskel-gtk:
- Integrate Buster theme: futureprototype.
* systemd:
- udev: Run programs in the specified order
925190
- udev: Prevent mass killings when not running under systemd
918764
Hardware support changes
========================
* base-installer:
- Make armhf/efi work like armhf/generic for picking kernels.
* debian-installer:
- armel: Delete unused package list for ixp4xx
921951
- armhf: Add images for Novena.
- armhf: Add images for BananaPiM2Berry.
* flash-kernel:
- Add machine db entry for Rock64
906696
- Add machine db entry for Banana Pi M2 Berry
923483
- Add machine db entry for Pine A64 LTS board
923655
- Add machine db entry for Olimex A64 Teres-I
926071
- Add machine db entries for Raspberry Pi 1, Pi Zero and Pi 3
Compute Module
921518
* libdebian-installer:
- Make all arm32 machines with EFI show up as subarch efi.
* linux:
- [armel] add spi-orion to mtd.udeb to be able to access spi flash
on e.g. qnap ts-21x
920607
- [armel] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules.
- [arm64,armhf] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules to Provides of
kernel-image.
- [armhf,riscv64,s390x] udeb: Add cdrom-core-modules.
- [arm64,armhf,ia64,riscv64,sparc64] udeb: Add usb-serial-modules
903824
- [arm64] udeb: Use generic ata-modules.
- [arm64] udeb: Remove redundant lines from nic-modules.
- udeb: Add virtio-gpu into d-i to get graphical output in VM
instances.
- udeb: Add scsi-nic-modules containing Chelsio and Qlogic
iSCSI/FC drivers.
- udeb: Add fb-modules and include drm and drm_kms_helper on most
architectures.
- udeb: Move basic PV modules from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to
kernel-image.
- udeb: Move drivers from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to
{fb,input,nic,scsi}-modules.
- udeb: Make nic-wireless-modules depend on mmc-core-modules, not
mmc-modules; move crc7 to crc-modules to avoid duplication.
- udeb: Make serial_cs optional in serial-modules.
Localization status
===================
* 76 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 38 of them.
Known bugs in this release
==========================
* TLS support in wget is broken
926315
* Even if there weren't issues in the openssl udebs, one might run
into issues related to missing entropy
923675 This affects
HTTPS connections, but also SSH keypair generation.
* The switch to LUKS2 means one cannot use GRUB's cryptodisk support
927165
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. Installer CDs, other media 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