Debian instaler tim objavio je drugu RC verziju instalera za nadolazeću verziju Debian 7.0, sa kodnim imenom Wheezy. U ovom izdanju podržana su 73 jezika, a od toga potpuno je prevedeno 57.
Možete pogledati i listu poznatih problema. Mediji sa RC2 su dostupni za preuzimanje. Debian instaler tim se zahvaljuje svima koji su na bilo koji način doprineli ovom izdanju.
Poboljšanja u ovoj verziji su:
- accessibility/gdm3: Introduce basic Orca support (#689559).
- brltty: Fix getting stuck in text mode installer (#705196).
- localechooser: Update to latest translations of ISO-3166.
- netcfg:
- Use
dpkg-query -s
instead ofdpkg -l
to check for package installation (#700939). - Fix
netcfg/disable_dhcp
vs.netcfg/use_autoconfig
logic. The latter was ineffective (#703747, #688273). - Install iw along with wireless-tools on the target system, it's the current de facto standard wireless tool (#697890).
- Use
- rootskel-gtk: Make sure
theme=dark
works despite some changes in last brltty versions (#696968). - ttf-cjk-compact: Update for wheezy (#690523).
- New netboot image on armhf: vexpress.
- initramfs-tools: Include more HID drivers into base, so that input drivers available in the installer also work in the installed system (#697619).
- linux kernel:
- Replace DRM_PSB with DRM_GMA500 (and DRM_GMA600, DRM_GMA3600, DRM_MEDFIELD).
- Reenable MS Virtual PC guests in the ata_piix module.
- Add hid-topseed to input-modules for use in the installer (#702611).
- efi: Ensure efivars is loaded on EFI systems (#703363).
- efivars: Work around serious firmware bugs.
- Backport drm and agp subsystems from 3.4.37 for better graphics support (intel, nouveau, radeon).
- Bluetooth: ath3k: Add support for VAIO VPCEH [0489:e027] (#700550).
- media/rc: Add iguanair driver from Linux 3.7 (#696925).
- rt2800: add chipset revision RT5390R support (#696592).
- armhf/mx5: Fix missing storage drivers and fix network driver selection for the installer.
- Add specialised USB keyboard/mouse drivers to input-modules for use in the installer: hid-a4tech, hid-cypress, hid-ezkey (#697035), hid-kensington, hid-keytouch, hid-kye, hid-multitouch, hid-ortek, hid-primax, hid-quanta, hid-samsung, hid-speedlink.
- radeon: Relax firmware checks for DRM/KMS before R600 chips (#697229).
- [armel/versatile,armhf/vexpress] i2c: Enable I2C, I2C_VERSATILE as modules (#696182).
- net: Add alx driver for Atheros AR8161 and AR8162 (#699129).
- [x86] i915: Invert backlight brightness control for various models including Packard Bell NCL20 (#627372) and eMachines G725 (#680737). Can also be enabled with the
invert_brightness=1
module parameter. - Backport the virtio-scsi module (#686636).
- Enable the line6 module (#700211).