Debian Jessie Alpha 1 is out!

The Debian Installer team is pleased to announce the first alpha release of the installer for Debian 8 "Jessie".



Improvements in this release of the installer

• Many components were updated during the beginning of the Jessie release cycle, so a full list of changes is not be included in this announcement.
• apt-setup: Avoid hang due to interactive apt-cdrom (#740673).
• grub-installer: Support menu selection of GRUB boot disk (#706112).

Behavorial changes in this release

• Xfce is the default desktop environment for the time being. Quoting tasksel's changelog: "this will be re-evaluated in August 2014, and may change again before Jessie is released".
• It's still possible to select an alternative desktop to install at the boot prompt; installation images are available for the various major desktop environments as usual.

Hardware support changes

• The ia64 architecture has been removed from the archive, and is no longer supported.
• The s390 architecture has been replaced with the s390x architecture.
• It wasn't possible to build the installer for sparc (#731806), so no installation images are available for this architecture. Its future as an official port is being evaluated by the release team.
• The Linux kernel has been updated from 3.2 to 3.13.
• The FreeBSD kernel has been updated from 9.0 to 9.2.
• armel: The iop32x flavour has been dropped.
• armhf: The armmp flavour has been added; it covers both mx5 and vexpress.
• mipsel: The cobalt flavour has been dropped.
• s390x: The tape flavour has been dropped.

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