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The Debian Installer team officially announces the release of second beta release of installer for Debian 8 "Jessie" with new changes and minor fixes. As you know that Debian Installer is the official installation system for Debian distribution since Sarge release.

According to official announcement, Debian 8 Installer Beta 2 comes with default GNOME desktop environment along with preliminary support for arm64 and ppc64el architectures. This beta release also provides a list of desktop environments which is displayed in tasksel which makes easier installation of another desktop environment. Unfortunately, this is currently underdocumented.

Among other changes, Debian 8 Installer Beta 2 includes fixed PXE boot images built for kfreebsd, add fonts-lohit-guru-udeb to gtk images, fixing rendering for punjabi, remove desktop selection from syslinux; now available in tasksel, keep Linux modules.builtin file in the initrd and fixed lib location and search path for syslinux >= 5. We have also enlisted some of the changes below in this post. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

List of New Changes Made in Debian 8 Installer Beta 2

- hw-detect: Move firmware installation code to pre-pkgsel.d.
- hw-detect: Correct detection of Macs needing to blacklist snd-aoa modules.
- iso-scan: Do not error out when searching in folders with shell-special characters in their name.
- lowmem: Update lowmem limits for linux-x86.
- lowmem: Make the / ramfs fill the whole memory again.
- netcfg: Do not kill_dhcp_client after setting the hostname and domain, otherwise Linux udhcpc will stop renewing its lease, and on other platforms dhclient will de-configure the network interface.
- netcfg: Don't copy /etc/network/interfaces to /target if netcfg/target_network_config=ifupdown.
- netcfg: Fix support for entering an ESSID manually, it was previously getting ignored.
- preseed: Update auto-install/defaultroot for jessie.
- preseed: Always disable locale & keyboard question when auto is enabled, even if no preseed file was given on boot, in case the dhcp server provides it.
- rootskel: Update lowmem limit for gtk on linux-x86.
- rootskel: Use a tmpfs for some directories to avoid running out of space in the fixed-size initrd on kfreebsd-*.
- rootskel-gtk: Update gtk-set-font to learn a new mapping.

These are some of the new changes made in Debian 8 Installer Beta 2. If you wish to checkout complete list of new changes, then you must visit their official changelog page.

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