The second candidate for the installer of the next significant release of Debian 13 “Trixie” has been published. The Debian 13 release is expected in mid-July. Currently, there are 136 critical errors that are blocking the release, as observed during the publication of past releases. You can find more information here.
Among the changes compared to the last test version of the installer are:
- Busybox has stopped supplying the WGET utility.
- In the APT-Setup, CDROM is turned off in the number of sources for loading packages if the installation media is not a real CD.
- The version of the Linux nucleus is updated to 6.12.33+Deb13.
- Stattering the option “-phorce-airwrite” in DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS.
- In means for people with disabilities, speech synthesis has been improved.
- The “Force-Efi-Extra-Removable” parameter is activated by default to solve problems with some EFI-rovering that incorrectly work with the loading variables EFI.
- Systemd-Cryptsetup is installed with Cryptsetup-Initramfs in Partman-Crypto.
- An option to restore systems with BTRFS installed by the Calamares installer used in some Debian Live devices has been added.
- Systemd-boot-installer provides installation of a Shim-Signed package on AMD64 and ARM64 systems for using the UEFI Secure Boot mode.
- Console-Setup has added support for MTP and SPI keyboards used in Apple laptops, such as M1 MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air.
- In UDEB with the image of the AMD64 nucleus, the PINCTRL-INTEL driver for the GPIO controllers Intel has been included.
/Reports, release notes, official announcements.