Third candidate for releases of Debian 11 installer “Bullseye”

published The third candidate for the release of the next significant release of Debian – “Bullseye”. Currently there is a lot 48 critical errors blocking release (a month ago it was 155, two months ago – 185, three months ago – 240, four months ago – 472, at the time of freezing in Debian 10 – 316, Debian 9 – 275, Debian 8 – 350, Debian 7 – 650). The release is scheduled for August 14.

key changes in the installer compared to the second candidate releases:

  • Documented actions that can help in case of failures during booting (for example, a black screen), and also added information about Application iSenkram to identify missing firmware and solving problems arising because of this.
  • Non-FREE installation images, including packages with firmware, are improved to determine the needs of installed systems in additional firmware (for example, firmware for AMD and Intel graphics or Intel audio cards). HW-Detect added support for installing additional packages with firmware, if the elements in the UDEV database include modalias templates with DEP-11 metadata.
  • Linux kernel updated to release 5.10.0-8.
  • In UDEB FB-Modules, the PWM-Rockchip module is added, in Nic-Modules MDIO-Aspeed module, and in USB-Modules FUSB302, TCPM and TYPEC modules.
  • solved problems with the definition of network connection on the I.MX6 boards.
/Media reports.