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+<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer Bookworm RC 2 release</define-tag>
+<define-tag release_date>2023-04-28</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 second release candidate of the installer for Debian 12
+<q>Bookworm</q>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Improvements in this release</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>apt-setup:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Enable &lt;codename&gt;-updates when installing testing, not
+        only when installing (old)stable (#991947).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>argon2:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Restore threading support in the installer (#1034696).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>base-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Install zstd alongside initramfs-tools, like busybox.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>choose-mirror:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Update Mirrors.masterlist.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>cryptsetup:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Improve support for low-memory systems (#1028250): Check for physical
+        memory available also in PBKDF benchmark, and use only half of detected
+        free memory on systems without swap.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>debian-cd:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Include zstd alongside initramfs-tools, like busybox.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>debian-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fix grub font loading, making sure we get the nice graphical splash
+        screen in Secure Boot mode too (#1034535).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>grub-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Install shim-signed on i386 and arm64 as well as amd64 when we're
+        installing grub-efi-*-signed packages.</li>
+      <li>If we detect other operating systems installed, check with the user
+        (at low priority) and re-enable os-prober.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>grub2:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Add debconf logic for GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER to make it easier to
+        control things here, particularly useful for the installer (#1031594,
+        #1012865, #1025698).</li>
+      <li>Add luks2 to the signed grub efi images (#1001248).</li>
+      <li>Fix probing of LUKS2 devices (#1028301).</li>
+      <li>Fix Secure Boot on arm64 (#1033657).</li>
+      <li>Don't warn about os-prober if it's not installed (#1020769).</li>
+      <li>Fix an issue where a logical volume rename would lead grub to fail to
+        boot (#987008).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>live-installer:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Remove the live packages before the cdrom is unmounted, avoiding a
+        long wait at the end of the installation process.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>partman-efi:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Fix detection of BIOS-bootable systems, fixing at least the “Guided -
+        use entire disk and set up LVM” use case on UEFI systems (#834373,
+        #1033913).</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>preseed:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Restore support for the “hostname” alias on the kernel command line
+        (#1031643, #1034062).</li>
+      <li>Switch auto-install/defaultroot to bookworm.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Hardware support changes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>flash-kernel:
+    <ul>
+      <li>Adjust OLPC XO-1.75 boot script.</li>
+      <li>Add Lenovo Miix 630 and Lenovo Yoga C630.</li>
+      <li>Add StarFive VisionFive board.</li>
+      <li>Add D1 SoC boards.</li>
+      <li>Add QEMU-related “dummy” entries.</li>
+      <li>Add A20-OLinuXino_MICRO-eMMC (#1019881).</li>
+      <li>Add Lenovo ThinkPad X13s.</li>
+      <li>Add Colibri iMX6ULL eMMC.</li>
+      <li>Add Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Plus Rev 1.3.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>linux:
+    <ul>
+      <li>udeb: add intel_lpss* (optional) to kernel-image (#1032136). Many
+        laptops have their touchpad accessible over I2C, only visible if LPSS is
+        available in the installer.</li>
+    </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Localization status</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>78 languages are supported in this release.</li>
+  <li>Full translation for 41 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>