Debian Installer Buster RC 3 release
July 3rd, 2019
The Debian Installer team is pleased to
announce the third release candidate of the installer for Debian 10
Buster
.
This release candidate of the installer is meant to validate some very last changes, making sure Recommends of the Linux kernel packages are properly installed. That's also a way to double check the setup for generating installation images is ready to prepare official Buster images in a few days.
Installation reports for this specific D-I Buster RC 3 release are welcome as always, but users may want to join the fun of testing the official installation images on Saturday!
Improvements in this release
- base-installer:
- Enable installation of Recommends while installing the kernel (#929667).
- debian-installer-utils:
- Always set APT option if --{with,no}-recommends options are used (#931287).
- debian-cd:
- Include Buster release notes on DVD, 16G USB and BD images.
- grub2:
- Add shim-signed to Recommends for grub-efi-{arm64,i386}-signed packages (#931038).
Localization status
- 76 languages are supported in this release.
- Full translation for 39 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.