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+<define-tag pagetitle>Debian Installer Bookworm RC 3 release</define-tag>
+<define-tag release_date>2023-05-16</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 third release candidate of the installer for Debian 12
+<q>Bookworm</q>.
+</p>
+
+
+<h2>Improvements in this release</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>choose-mirror:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Update Mirrors.masterlist.</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>finish-install:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Adjust APT cache cleaning to avoid breaking bash completion
+    (#1034650).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>grub-installer:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Detect EFI boot variables with hexadecimal digits, not only
+    decimal digits.</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>hw-detect:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Restore support for firmware license prompts (#1033921).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>linux:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Build against updated dwarves, reducing its size and memory
+    footprint (#1033301).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>partman-base:
+  <ul>
+    <li>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.</li>
+    <li>Add support for bigger prefixes: petabyte (PB), pebibyte (PiB),
+    exabyte (EB), and exbibyte (EiB).</li>
+    <li>With many thanks to Vincent Danjean!</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>preseed:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Make sure netcfg considers DHCP-provided hostnames, only using
+    the hostname parameter on the kernel command line as a fallback
+    (#1035349).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+</ul>
+
+
+<h2>Hardware support changes</h2>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>debian-installer:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Ship dedicated DRM modules for bochs and cirrus to avoid broken
+    graphics under UEFI/Secure Boot (#1036019).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>linux:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Work around black screen on ppc64el (#1033058).</li>
+  </ul>
+  </li>
+  <li>xorg-server:
+  <ul>
+    <li>Ship modesetting_drv.so in the udeb again, fixing graphical
+    installer support on UTM (#1035014).</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>