Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

[Cyril Brulebois]

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha
release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".


Foreword
========

I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.


Important changes in this release
=================================

Many changes have been happening during this release cycle already, and
this announcement isn't meant to be exhaustive. Instead, let's stick to
some high-level view of the most important changes.

There are major updates on the hardware support side:
- We're no longer building an installer for the armel and i386
architectures, even if they remain in the archive at the moment.
- The mipsel architecture was removed from the archive last year.
- The riscv64 architecture is brand new!

Even if the boot screens remain to be updated, the Ceratopsian theme by
Elise Couper is making his debut in the installer.

The user-setup screens (dealing with the creation of the root user and
the first user) have received an overdue makeover.

A lot of improvements and bugfixes have made their way to components
responsible for partitioning. This includes different heuristics for
automatic partitioning (e.g. to compute the swap size), some recipes
dedicated to small disks, etc.


Localization status
===================

* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 18 of them.


Known bugs in this release
==========================

* Some big packages are making it harder than usual to build images for
source packages, but we decided to publish this alpha release anyway.

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. Installation images, 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


Cheers,

[Holger Wansing]

Hi Cyril,

Post by Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha
release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".
Foreword
========
I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.

Thanks for your warm words!

I would like to forward this to Pascal, who mostly did the real work
behind me just accepting the merge requests :-)

Many thanks Pascal


Holger

[Pascal Hambourg]

Hi Holger,

Post by Holger Wansing

Post by Cyril Brulebois
I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.

Thanks for your warm words!
I would like to forward this to Pascal, who mostly did the real work
behind me just accepting the merge requests :-)

I beg to disagree. You spent time replying to the bug reports, reviewing
the proposed changes and their impacts, asking for clarifications,
testing, requesting adjustments... This is as real work as writing code.

You made it happen, so I am the one who should thank you for this.

[Steve McIntyre]

Post by Pascal Hambourg
Hi Holger,

Post by Holger Wansing

Post by Cyril Brulebois
I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.

Thanks for your warm words!
I would like to forward this to Pascal, who mostly did the real work
behind me just accepting the merge requests :-)

I beg to disagree. You spent time replying to the bug reports, reviewing the
proposed changes and their impacts, asking for clarifications, testing,
requesting adjustments... This is as real work as writing code.
You made it happen, so I am the one who should thank you for this.

*grin* I'm sure there's enough bl^H^Hthanks to go around...

[Kenneth Schack Banner]

Hi,

Thanks for providing Debian 13 alpha 1 :-D

Unfortuneately, i am not able to get much further then to selecting
which sound card to use. When i select one, it will just continue to ask
what audio card to use.

I tried the net and DVD1 iso files.

reproduction:
1. Write iso to USB
2. boot on PC
3. do nothing for 30 seconds, then it will boot with screen reader
4. I have 2 audio cards, why it asks me to select one, but when i do
this, it simply asks again.

Best kind regards
Kenneth

Post by Cyril Brulebois
The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the first alpha
release of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".
Foreword
========
I'd like to address special thanks to Holger Wansing who has done
a tremendous job wading through many proposed changes in various
installer components, in addition to coordinating translation efforts.
Important changes in this release
=================================
Many changes have been happening during this release cycle already, and
this announcement isn't meant to be exhaustive. Instead, let's stick to
some high-level view of the most important changes.
- We're no longer building an installer for the armel and i386
architectures, even if they remain in the archive at the moment.
- The mipsel architecture was removed from the archive last year.
- The riscv64 architecture is brand new!
Even if the boot screens remain to be updated, the Ceratopsian theme by
Elise Couper is making his debut in the installer.
The user-setup screens (dealing with the creation of the root user and
the first user) have received an overdue makeover.
A lot of improvements and bugfixes have made their way to components
responsible for partitioning. This includes different heuristics for
automatic partitioning (e.g. to compute the swap size), some recipes
dedicated to small disks, etc.
Localization status
===================
* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 18 of them.
Known bugs in this release
==========================
* Some big packages are making it harder than usual to build images for
source packages, but we decided to publish this alpha release anyway.
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. Installation images, 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
Cheers,