Debian Installer Stretch RC 4 release

May 27th, 2017

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

Improvements in this release

apt-setup:
- Switch default hostname from ftp.debian.org to deb.debian.org in the 92updates and 93backports generators (#860472).
debian-installer:
- Fix speech-enabled boot menu entries for advanced options.
- Fix extraneous 32bit speech entry on multiarch images.
- Bump Linux kernel version from 4.9.0-2 to 4.9.0-3.
netcfg:
- IPv6 autoconfiguration: fix NTP server name handling, which would be stored as the DHCP-provided hostname (#862745).
os-prober:
- Remove code using device mapper (#860833, #853927, #853163) as it doesn't seem to work properly in a Debian Installer context, and rely on grub-mount instead (which was already the default anyway).

Hardware support changes

debian-installer:
- armel/orion5x: Use DTB for Buffalo Linkstation LiveV3 (LS-CHL).
- Re-enable u-boot images for OpenRD.
flash-kernel:
- Add support for Xunlong Orange Pi Plus / Plus 2.
- Switch to DTB for Buffalo Linkstation LiveV3 (LS-CHL).
linux:
- udeb: Include all AHCI drivers in sata-modules (#860335).
- udeb: Add tifm_7xx1 to mmc-modules (#861195).
- udeb: Move mfd-core to kernel-image, as both input-modules and mmc-modules need it.

Localization status

75 languages are supported in this release.
Full translation for 21 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.