Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release
December 31st, 2024
The Debian Installer team is pleased to
announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 13
Trixie
.
Foreword
Cyril Brulebois would 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 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.