Debian Installer Stretch Alpha 2 release

August 15th, 2015

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the second alpha release of the installer for Debian 9 Stretch.

Important change in this release of the installer

The biggest change in this release is the update of the linux kernel, from the 4.0 series to the 4.1 one.

Other improvements in this release

debian-installer:
- Fix missing Rescue menu in Advanced options for multi-arch image (#793118).
- Replace ttf-cjk-compact-udeb with fonts-android-udeb (#794432). This should ensure no glyphs are missing for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Please report any issues with these languages!
oldsys-preseed:
- Use DHCP by default on LaCie devices.
systemd/udev-udeb:
- Stop copying 70-persistent-* rules (net.ifnames is the default).
- Restore notice log level for udevd in the installer.
u-boot:
- u-boot-sunxi: enable Mini-X target (#787266).
- Add support for Tegra Jetson TK-1 (#788689).
- u-boot now has fw_env.config examples for mx6cuboxi and wandboard (#786877).

Localization status

75 languages are supported in this release.
Full translation for 12 of them.

Known issues in this release

See the errata for details and a full list of known issues.

Feedback for this release

We need your help to find bugs and further improve the installer, so please try it. Installer CDs, other media and everything else you will need are available at our web site.

Thanks

The Debian Installer team thanks everybody who has contributed to this release.