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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 ?

The Debian Installer team officially announces the release of Debian 8.0 "Jessie" Beta 1 with new changes and bug fixes. According to official announcement, Debian Installer Jessie Beta 1 comes with fixed Gnome installation images which allows you to install Gnome instead of Xfce and also offers best experience as far as accessibility is concerned. This release also includes merged major parted release and several other related components also updated. If you face problem during partitioning, then make sure to include /var/log/syslog but also /var/log/partman in your installation report.

One of the main hightlighted feature of this release is that this installer supports systemd as default init system. It also deal with incompatible changes in syslinux and drops some parted_server functions. Other new changes includes updated Linux Kernel 3.14.15, updated kfreebsd 10 and resized banner when window width and banner width doesn't match. Also, review recent Linux Distro News to know what's new in them ?

The Debian 8 Installer Beta 1 also comes with some of the new hardware changes which is specifically supported by this release. This installer includes support for mipsel/loongson-3, support for QNAP HS-210 and support for D-Link DNS 320. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.

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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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