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Debian Community officially announces the release of Debian Installer 8.0 Jessie RC3 with several improvements and bugfixes. Well this is the third release candidate and primarily available for testing purposes. The community also claims that there might be some known issues which need to be resolved before final stable release, so they are waiting for your feedback and test cases.

This might be the last release candidate of upcoming Debian 8.0 "Jessie" and almost fixed all the issues which were raised in previously released RC1 and RC2 releases. Well about Debian Installer, you know that it is just a installation system for Debian distros since Sarge release.

According to official announcement, Debian Installer Jessie RC3 comes with minor improvements, few hardware support changes, localization status along with other bugfixes. The Debian Installer includes SD-card image build support for hd-media builds on armhf, add SD-card image and tftpboot tarball build support for netboot builds on armhf and add symlink boot.scr.uimg in the armhf netboot.tar.gz to support network autoboot with modern u-boot versions.

This candidate release provides support for 75 languages along with full translation for 22 languages. The apt-setup stops enabling backports by default, debian installer restore shortcuts on help screens, hw-detect improve missing firmware detection to avoid false positives once firmwares have been loaded. You might also like to check out other latest Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?