Following last month’s release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing.
Apt-setup will now disable CD-ROM sources if the installation medium is not a real CD but rather a USB stick, SD card, ISO file, or similar. This is done since APT cannot use it after the installation. This has long been a nuisance when installing Debian from a USB flash drive in needing to comment out the apt-sources.list line after installation when trying to use APT. Great seeing this change now in place.
Debian Installer Trixie RC2 also removes the wget applet from BusyBox, updates the mirrors master list, updates to the newer Linux 6.12 LTS kernel point release, installing systemd-cryptsetup alongside cryptsetup-initramfs, support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer via Debian Live images, and installing shim-signed via systemd-boot-installer on AMD64 and ARM64 to enable Secure Boot.
The console-setup code has also added support for newer Apple keyboards such as those found on the Apple M1 MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air systems.
More details on today’s Debian Installer Trixie RC2 release via the debian-boot mailing list.
