Improvements in this release
============================
* anna:
- Use SHA256 for verification
856211.
* base-installer:
- Log all debootstrap arguments.
- Try harder to install apt-transport-https and ca-certificates
when they're needed
855035.
- Propagate local certificates using the same logic.
* brltty:
- Fix baum driver restarting when typing too fast on Vario Ultra
device
857558.
* choose-mirror:
- Fix FTBFS with UTF-8 entities in mirror list, e.g. RE/Réunion
857545.
* clock-setup:
- Only call sed on /etc/default/rcS to adjust UTC setting when
this file exists
854924.
* debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel version from 4.9.0-1 to 4.9.0-2.
- Fix missing speech synthesis menu entries on some i386 images.
- Make syslinux and EFI boot menus uniform, emphasizing graphical
entries.
- Add speech synthesis entries for expert, rescue, and automated
install; and make shortcuts point to them.
* debian-installer-utils:
- Propagate dot-containing options to target kernel command line
853855.
- Set User-Agent to "debian-installer" when calling wget
850800.
* debootstrap:
- Strip the arch-qualifier
836525.
- Instead of creating a /dev/ptmx → pts/ptmx symlink
unconditionally, try "mknod c 5 2" first, and fall back to a
symlink only if it fails. This should help with various tools
like pbuilder, sbuild, and schroot
817236.
* fonts-android:
- Fix support for Korean glyphs by shipping DroidSansFallback.ttf
instead of DroidSansFallbackFull.ttf in the fonts-android-udeb
package
853921.
* grub2:
- Make grub-install check for errors from efibootmgr
853234.
* installation-locale:
- C.UTF-8.in: change LC_IDENTIFICATION to i18n:2012
837004.
* libdebian-installer:
- Parse SHA256 fields in Packages files
856210.
- Parse SHA256 fields in Release files.
- Update versions for changed symbols. Please note that packages
impacted by this change were checked within Debian. Derivative
distributions might want to double check their packages.
* lilo-installer:
- Fix sfdisk arguments
855489.
* partman-auto-crypto:
- Implement a preseedable way to skip disk erase
476388.
* rootskel:
- Avoid registering options for non-modules (#853855). The
non-modules list is based on the kernel-command-line(7) manpage.
- Update gtk lowmem limits.
* screen:
- Fix terminal garbage in Debian Installer over serial line
857808.
Hardware support changes
========================
* debian-installer:
- Add support for ports which aren't scheduled to be released by
looking at an extra unreleased suite where patched or
port-specific components are made available, and use unstable
instead of testing as a base suite. This fixes the long standing
FTBFS on non-released ports
852215. Please note that other
changes related to non-released ports are usually not covered in
release announcements.
- Add fb-modules to some loongson-3 configurations
854553.
- powerpc: Add virtio modules to cdrom/netboot images
767487.
* flash-kernel:
- Add machine db entry for TI OMAP4 PandaBoard-ES
857205.
- Add machine db entry for NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo v2
855960.
- Add machine db entry for Hardkernel ODROID-C2
845818.
* grub-installer:
- Fix grub-xen installation in Xen environments
854082.
- Use 'p' (not '-part') as multipath disk-partition separator.
This fixes the check of whether the boot file system is on
multipath.
- Better handling of PReP partitions on ppc64el: prefer PReP
partition on the same disk as the boot file system partition.
* hw-detect:
- disk-detect: stop trying to load dm-emc
852285.
- disk-detect: match 'mpath[a-z]+' instead of 'mpath[0-9]+' since
multipath-tools changed behaviour regarding mpath device names
806713,
854565).
- disk-detect: run update-dev before probing for devices (#843895).
* libdebian-installer:
- Add support for NETGEAR ReadyNAS Duo v2
855965.
* linux:
- udeb: Add more USB host and dual-role drivers to usb-modules
856111.
- udeb/arm64: Add ast to fb-modules
820168.
- udeb: Add bcache to md-modules
718548.
* partman-base:
- Update support for more recent output of 'multipath -l'.
- Accept spaces in multipath WWID.
* partman-partitioning:
- Fix resizing an NVMe device
820818.
* systemd:
- udev: Fix by-id symlinks for devices whose IDs contain
whitespace
851164.
- udev: Fix /dev/disk/by-path aliases for virtio disks
856558.
- udev/s390x: Create persistent net names for virtio CCW devices
856559.
* u-boot:
- armel: Support for openrd targets has been fixed and enabled
again
856441. Please note that this needs to be enabled again
in debian-installer as well.
Localization status
===================
* 75 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 15 of them.
Known bugs in this release
==========================
* There seems to be no known major bug as of yet.
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.
