Hi,

I just installed Debian 13 trixie rc2 on a hp mini desktop which only
allows booting with uefi/efi.

1. unfortuneately this means that debian will not auto start with screen
reader after 30 seconds as when booting up on a legacy computer which
has no uefi.

2. during the install wizard, we must partition the disk. on rc2 i
experience that the screen reader read each partition as blank, this
prevents blind people from to partitioning their disks during the
installation.

Best kind regards
Kenneth


Den 03.07.2025 kl. 01.27 skrev Cyril Brulebois:

The Debian Installer team[1] is pleased to announce the second release candidate of the installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".

Improvements in this release
============================

* apt-setup:
- Disable cdrom sources if installation medium is not a real CD (USB
stick, SD card, ISO file), because APT cannot use it after the
installation (#1102140, #1103650).
- Allow preseeding extra options for the local sources.list lines.
* busybox:
- Remove wget applet (#1107392).
* choose-mirror:
- Update Mirrors.masterlist.
* debian-cd:
- Record which firmware packages are embedded in the modified initrds
(#1106005).
- Make sure systemd-cryptsetup is available (#1092977).
* debian-installer:
- Bump Linux kernel ABI to 6.12.33+deb13.
- Fix Japanese rendering support, with many thanks to Kentaro HAYASHI:
add fonts-motoya-l-cedar-udeb to gtk-common (#1037256).
- Stop setting DPKG_UNPACK_OPTIONS = --force-overwrite (#1107392).
- Improve support for speech synthesis, embedding some i915-related
modules on amd64, for graphical targets.
* grub-installer:
- Set force-efi-extra-removable to "true" by default in some cases,
which should help in cases where EFI firmware does not manage EFI
boot variables properly.
* partman-crypto:
- Install systemd-cryptsetup alongside cryptsetup-initramfs. While
the latter is sufficient if one picks guided partitioning with an
encrypted LVM layout, other use cases might require the former,
originally bundled together within systemd (#1092977).
* rescue:
- Add suport for rescuing btrfs systems installed via the Calamares
installer found on Debian Live images.
* rootskel-gtk:
- Adapt installer banner image to the most recent iteration of the
Ceratopsian theme.
- Fix Japanese rendering support by switching from VL Gothic to
MotoyaLCedar, also bumping font size (#1037256).
* systemd-boot-installer:
- Install shim-signed on amd64/arm64 to enable Secure Boot.

Hardware support changes
========================

* console-setup:
- Add support for Apple MTP keyboard and Apple SPI Keyboard, as found
on ARM-based Apple laptops like M1 MacBook Pro and M2 MacBook Air
(#1108360).
* linux:
- [amd64] Add drivers/pinctrl/intel to kernel-image udeb (#1106658).

Localization status
===================

* 78 languages are supported in this release.
* Full translation for 31 of them.

Known bugs in this release
==========================

* There seems to be no known major bug as of yet.

See the errata[2] 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. Installation images, and everything else you will need
are available at our web site[3].

Thanks
======

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

1. https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Team
2. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/errata
3. https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer

Cheers,

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