Debian Installer 7.0 Beta4 release

November 22nd, 2012

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the fourth beta release of the installer for Debian 7.0 Wheezy.

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).

Localization status

73 languages are supported in this release.
Full translation for 57 of them.

Known issues in this release

See the errata 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.

Thanks

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.