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Debian Installer Bookworm RC3 released

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  • Seit ein paar Tagen ist der RC3 verfügbar. Debian Installer Bookworm RC3

    Improvements in this release

    • finish-install:
      • Adjust APT cache cleaning to avoid breaking bash completion
        (#1034650).
    • grub-installer:
      • Detect EFI boot variables with hexadecimal digits, not only
        decimal digits.
    • hw-detect:
      • Restore support for firmware license prompts (#1033921).
    • linux:
      • Build against updated dwarves, reducing its size and memory
        footprint (#1033301).
    • partman-base:
      • Add support for input submitted using power-of-two units: kiB,
        MiB, GiB, etc. (#913431). Note that sizes are still output using
        power-of-ten units: kB, MB, GB, etc.
      • Add support for bigger prefixes: petabyte (PB), pebibyte (PiB),
        exabyte (EB), and exbibyte (EiB).
      • With many thanks to Vincent Danjean!
    • preseed:
      • Make sure netcfg considers DHCP-provided hostnames, only using
        the hostname parameter on the kernel command line as a fallback
        (#1035349).

    Hardware support changes

    • debian-installer:
      • Ship dedicated DRM modules for bochs and cirrus to avoid broken
        graphics under UEFI/Secure Boot (#1036019).
    • linux:
      • Work around black screen on ppc64el (#1033058).
    • xorg-server:
      • Ship modesetting_drv.so in the udeb again, fixing graphical
        installer support on UTM (#1035014).

    Localization status

    • 78 languages are supported in this release.
    • Full translation for 41 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.