Published The second candidate for the release of the installer of the next significant release of Debian – “Bullseye”. Currently there is no painful 155 critical errors blocking release (a month ago it was 185, two months ago – 240, four months ago – 472, at the time of freezing in Debian 10 – 316, Debian 9 – 275, Debian 8 – 350, Debian 7 – 650).
At the same time announced Date Full freezing batch base Debian 11 “Bullseye”, directly preceding release. On July 17, the transfer of any changes to the packages will be blocked and will require obtaining permission from the team responsible for the formation of release. Release is expected in the second half of the summer of 2021.
key changes in the installer compared to the first release candidate:
- in the CdebConf Configurator (Debian Configuration Management System) improved the design of information messages and actions log. Solved problems with freezes manifested when switching to the shell of the recovery mode after a failure or selecting some interface languages.
- updated Mirror list.
- in all images, including images for network installation, added BRLTTY and ESPEAKUP packages for people with vision problems.
- Linux kernel updated to version 5.10.0-7.
- the possibility of forced setting level installation mode in a small amount of memory in System (LowMem = + 0). Updated Lowmem levels for Arm64, ArmHF, MIPSEL, MIPS64EL and PPC64EL.
- UDEV-UDEB configuration of symbolic links / dev / fd and / dev / std {in, out, err}.
- Added MDIO module for Ethernet controller Raspberry PI 4 boards.