This is probably the last RC in the cycle

Apr 19, 2015 18:37 GMT  ·  By

Debian Installer, the official installation system for the Debian distribution since the Sarge release, developed the Debian Installer Team, has been upgraded to version 8.0 RC3 and is now available for download and testing.

The Debian developers are getting closer to the final version of Debian 8.0, and this is probably the last RC in the cycle. This is a regular procedure, and the installer can be used to test some of the latest changes that have been implemented until now. In fact, the devs only have a handful of issues to test, and they might get the stable version out in the next couple of months.

This particular package is not addressed to regular users, who will find that using the installer is not exactly the easiest way of testing some of the coolest features that are set to arrive with Debian 8.0.

Debian 8.0 is already in feature freeze

No more features are getting added after the past feature freeze milestone, which means that only fixes and other small problems are being corrected until the final version hits the stands.

According to the changelog, backports are no longer enabled by default, the e2fsck superblock time check is now disabled if RTC is set to local time, the mirrors list has been refreshed, shortcuts on are now displayed properly on help screens, u-boot-tools is now recommended, network connectivity is no longer needed during hd-media installs on several armel, armhf,and arm64 platforms, and missing firmware detection has been improved in order to avoid false positives once firmwares have been loaded.

Also, a hang with DHCPv6 stateful addressing has been fixed, extra USB devices are no longer being added to /etc/fstab, SD-card image build support has been added for hd-media builds on armhf, and a UEFI boot failure has been corrected.

You can download Debian 8.0 "Jessie" Installer RC3 right now from Softpedia if you want to see the progress made by the devs first hand.