The second release candidate for the Debian 10 "Buster" installer

Available second release candidate installer the next major release of Debian 10 "Buster". Currently there are 75 critical errors blocking the release (two weeks ago there were 98, and a month and a half ago 132). The Testing branch has been transferred to a state of complete freeze from making changes (an exception is made only for emergency interventions). Final release of Debian 10 expected 6 of July.

As compared with past The test release of the installer includes the following changes:

• Added "Unlocking LUKS devices from GRUB" section to cryptsetup pointing to guide on setting up partition unlocking at the GRUB level;
• Added Buster release verification keys to debian-archive-keyring;
• A working image has been prepared that fits into a 16 GB USB Flash. The package selection process has been optimized to fit multi-arch firmware into a 700 MB image that excludes the i686 PAE kernel;
• Added haveged-udeb package to solve problems with insufficient entropy quality of the pseudo-random number generator;
• Dark theme (Dark theme) renamed to high contrast (Accessible high contrast);
• Support for verified boot (UEFI Secure Boot) is enabled for the amd64 architecture. To ensure the operation of Secure Boot, the Shim bootloader is used, certified by a digital signature from Microsoft (shim-signed), in combination with the certification of the kernel and the grub bootloader (grub-efi-amd64-signed) with the project's own certificate (shim acts as a layer for the distribution kit to use its own keys). The shim-signed and grub-efi-ARCH-signed packages are included as build dependencies for amd64, i386 and arm64. Bootloader and grub, certified with a working certificate, are included in the EFI images for amd64, i386 and arm64;
• Added support for network bootable (netboot) images for SD cards;
• Added u-boot images for a64-olinuxino, orangepi_zero_plus2 boards
  and teres_i. Added support for NanoPi NEO2 and Marvell 8040 MACCHIATOBin;

• The kernel package (kernel-image) has all the drivers to support hardware pseudo-random number generators, and the input-modules package has all the keyboard drivers added.

Source: opennet.ru