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+<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer Buster RC 1 release</define-tag>
+<define-tag release_date>2019-04-15</define-tag>
+#use wml::debian::news
+
+<p>
+The Debian Installer <a
+href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team">team</a> is pleased to
+announce the first release candidate of the installer for Debian 10
+<q>Buster</q>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Important change in this release</h2>
+
+<p>This release includes Secure Boot support on amd64, which should
+  work out of the box on most Secure Boot enabled machines. This means
+  there should be no need to disable Secure Boot support in the
+  firmware configuration anymore.</p>
+
+
+<h2>Improvements in this release</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>apt-setup:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Adjust handling of media sets, improving support for Debian Edu.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>brltty:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add support for Hedo MobiLine.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>cdebconf:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Disable paging in text frontend for now, espeakup does not
+        pronounce the keys to change pages (#690343) and thus users
+        are confounded and think the first page are the only choices.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>cryptsetup:
+    <ul>
+      <li>The on-disk LUKS format version now defaults to LUKS2
+        (#919725).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>debian-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Switch to using buster artwork for the splash screen.</li>
+      <li>Bump Linux kernel ABI from 4.19.0-1 to 4.19.0-4.</li>
+      <li>Improve build reproducibility (#900918, #920631, #920676).</li>
+      <li>gen-tarball: stop using the deprecated GZIP variable.</li>
+      <li>gen-tarball: use pigz automatically if it is available.</li>
+      <li>Add dark theme submenu and shortcut: 'd' (#820911).</li>
+      <li>Fix loading background image on netboot grub.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>debian-installer-utils:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Stop propagating BOOTIF to the installed system (#921444).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>espeakup:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fix writing down sound card ID when the installation finishes.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>finish-install:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add support for multiple consoles.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>grub-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>On Linux, mount/unmount /run to work around timeouts during
+        LVM initialization (#918590).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>grub2:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fix setup on Secure Boot systems where cryptodisk is in use
+        (#917117).</li>
+      <li>Make grub-efi-amd64-signed recommend shim-signed (#919067).</li>
+      <li>Add help and ls modules to signed UEFI images (#919955).</li>
+      <li>grub-install: Check for arm-efi as a default target (#922104).</li>
+      <li>util: Detect more I/O errors, like insufficient space
+        (#922741).</li>
+      <li>Use libefi* libraries to minimise writes to EFI variable storage
+        (#891434), instead of depending on efibootmgr. (The latter is
+        expected to come back in Recommends in a later release, since
+        that's a useful debugging tool.)</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>hw-detect:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Use 'modprobe -qn' to query available modules (#870448).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>libxinerama:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fix udeb dependencies (#921715).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>linux:
+    <ul>
+      <li>certs: Replace test signing certificate with production signing certificate.</li>
+      <li>certs: include both root CA and direct signing certificate (#924545).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>live-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add calamares-settings-debian as package to be removed at the
+        end of the installation.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>nano:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add patch to avoid showing <tt>^S</tt> and <tt>^Q</tt>
+        options in nano-tiny, as using those can cause problems on
+        some d-i environments, like installs over serial console
+        (#915017).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>network-console:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Drop “beep” support for arm*/ixp4xx and arm*/iop32x; it was
+        used to notify users their devices was ready to be installed,
+        but support for those platforms was removed from the Linux
+        kernel and therefore d-i (#921951).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>partman-base:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Make sure UUIDs are available in /dev/disk/by-uuid/ so that
+        the bootloader can be configured to use them (#852323).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>partman-lvm:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Really fix invalid characters in volume group names
+        (#911036), the the previous attempt was not entirely
+        functional (#922230, #922100).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>partman-partitioning:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Use GPT by default on armhf/efi, MSDOS otherwise.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>rootskel:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Make theme=dark install and enable Compiz in MATE.</li>
+      <li>Make theme=dark make grub use a dark theme.</li>
+      <li>Run d-i on multiple consoles independently where configured.</li>
+      <li>Add error-handling to steal-ctty.</li>
+      <li>Add early logging so we can later see what consoles are detected
+        and chosen.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>rootskel-gtk:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Integrate Buster theme: futureprototype.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>systemd:
+    <ul>
+      <li>udev: Run programs in the specified order (#925190).</li>
+      <li>udev: Prevent mass killings when not running under systemd
+        (#918764).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Hardware support changes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>base-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Make armhf/efi work like armhf/generic for picking
+        kernels.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>debian-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>armel: Delete unused package list for ixp4xx (#921951).</li>
+      <li>armhf: Add images for Novena.</li>
+      <li>armhf: Add images for BananaPiM2Berry.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>flash-kernel:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add machine db entry for Rock64 (#906696).</li>
+      <li>Add machine db entry for Banana Pi M2 Berry (#923483).</li>
+      <li>Add machine db entry for Pine A64 LTS board (#923655).</li>
+      <li>Add machine db entry for Olimex A64 Teres-I (#926071).</li>
+      <li>Add machine db entries for Raspberry Pi 1, Pi Zero and Pi 3
+        Compute Module (#921518).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>libdebian-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Make all arm32 machines with EFI show up as subarch efi.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>linux:
+    <ul>
+      <li>[armel] add spi-orion to mtd.udeb to be able to access spi
+        flash on e.g. qnap ts-21x (#920607).</li>
+      <li>[armel] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules.</li>
+      <li>[arm64,armhf] udeb: Add mmc-core-modules to Provides of
+        kernel-image.</li>
+      <li>[armhf,riscv64,s390x] udeb: Add cdrom-core-modules.</li>
+      <li>[arm64,armhf,ia64,riscv64,sparc64] udeb: Add
+        usb-serial-modules (#903824).</li>
+      <li>[arm64] udeb: Use generic ata-modules.</li>
+      <li>[arm64] udeb: Remove redundant lines from nic-modules.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Add virtio-gpu into d-i to get graphical output in VM
+        instances.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Add scsi-nic-modules containing Chelsio and Qlogic
+        iSCSI/FC drivers.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Add fb-modules and include drm and drm_kms_helper on
+        most architectures.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Move basic PV modules from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to
+        kernel-image.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Move drivers from {hyperv,virtio}-modules to
+        {fb,input,nic,scsi}-modules.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Make nic-wireless-modules depend on mmc-core-modules,
+        not mmc-modules; move crc7 to crc-modules to avoid
+        duplication.</li>
+      <li>udeb: Make serial_cs optional in serial-modules.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Localization status</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>76 languages are supported in this release.</li>
+  <li>Full translation for 38 of them.</li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Known issues in this release</h2>
+
+<p>
+See the <a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer/errata">errata</a> for
+details and a full list of known issues.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Feedback for this release</h2>
+
+<p>
+We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please
+try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are
+available at our <a href="$(DEVEL)/debian-installer">web site</a>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Thanks</h2>
+
+<p>
+The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this
+release.
+</p>