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Debian Installer Bullseye Alpha 1 release

December 5th, 2019

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 11 Bullseye.

It's high time we started doing this: many components were updated, replacing “CD”/“CD-ROM” with “installation media”. Such changes are not documented individually below. That also explains why many languages are not fully translated in this alpha release.

Improvements in this release

• apt-setup:
  • Update generation of apt sources lines for security: renamed from dist/updates to dist-security starting with bullseye (#935540, #942238).
  • Fix preseeding for local repositories by adding the key(s) in the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory (#851774, #928931).
• base-installer:
  • Stop installing the apt-transport-https transitional package.
• brltty:
  • Stop creating my-at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop in user profile, at-spi2-core now always start the at-spi bus.
• choose-mirror:
  • Update Mirrors.masterlist.
  • Use "deb.debian.org" as default hostname for custom HTTP mirror.
• console-setup:
  • Fix internationalization issues (#924657).
• debian-installer:
  • Target Bullseye!
  • Allow to have several spaces around [] qualifiers in sources.list entries.
  • Restore 'd' shortcut for the dark theme. 'c' cannot work in grub (#935545).
  • Set gfxpayload=keep in submenus too, to fix unreadable fonts on HiDPI displays in netboot images booted with EFI (#935546).
  • Convert some documentation to DocBook XML 4.5 (#907970).
• finish-install:
  • Stop creating my-at-spi-dbus-bus.desktop in user profile, at-spi2-core now always start the at-spi bus.
• fonts-sil-abyssinica:
  • Do not strip the font of Latin characters for the installer.
• grub2:
  • Add probe module to signed UEFI images (#936082).
• netcfg:
  • Reword template since some DHCP clients are no longer available.
• parted:
  • Cherry-pick upstream patch to remove output to stdout from affs that confused the installer (#941777).
• partman-crypto:
  • Install cryptsetup-initramfs instead of cryptsetup (#930228).

Hardware support changes

• debian-installer:
  • Remove images for QNAP TS-11x/TS-21x/HS-21x, QNAP TS-41x/TS-42x and HP Media Vault mv2120 due to size problems with the Linux kernel.
  • ARM: sunxi: Add support for Olimex A20-OLinuXino-Lime2-eMMC.
  • Tweak mini.iso generation on arm so EFI netboot will work.
• hw-detect:
  • Install virtualization related packages when virtualization is detected (#782287).
• linux:
  • [arm64] udeb: Add i2c-rk3x to i2c-modules.
  • [arm64,armhf] udeb: Add rockchip-io-domain to kernel-image.
  • udeb: Add atmel_mxt_ts to input-modules.
  • udeb: input-modules: Add OLPC AP-SP keyboard.
  • [arm64] udeb: Add pl330 to kernel-image.
  • [armhf] udeb: Remove davinci_cpdma from nic-modules.
  • udeb: Include physmap instead of physmap_of in mtd-modules.
  • udeb: Add thermal_sys to kernel-image.
  • udeb: Add virtio-gpu to get graphical output in VM instances.
  • [x86] udeb: Move rfkill to new rfkill-modules package to avoid duplication.
  • [arm] Backport DTB support for Rasperry Pi Compute Module 3.
  • [arm64] Backport DTB support for Rasperry Pi Compute Module 3.

Localization status

• 76 languages are supported in this release.

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.