Released today is the RC1 version of Debian Installer for Debian 13 "Trixie".

The Debian Installer is getting into shape for the upcoming release of Debian 13.0 this summer. Some of the changes to be found in the Debian Installer Trixie RC1 include:

- Debian CDs will not include large graphics firmware packages for ARM hard-float builds.

- Some firmware packages are also no longer included either globally or on a per-arch basis for some if they are not useful with the installer, rely on non-free components, or with the current Debian kernel configuration.

- The Debian Installer SD card image sizes have increased for netbook and netbook-gtk to 300MB and 400MB, respectively.

- Moving to the Linux 6.12.27 LTS kernel image.

- Integrating the Ceratopsian theme of Debian 13.

- Installing spice-vdagent under QEMU/KVM if carrying out a desktop installation of Debian Linux.

- Debian PPC64EL has switched back to ext2 from ext4 for the /boot partition since Petitboot does not support EXT4.

- Preliminary support for rescuing Debian installed to a Btrfs sub-volume.

- Debian flash-kernel now supports the PINE64 Pinebook, MNT Reform 2, ARM64X HummingBoard-T, PINE64 Star64, Wandboard Rev D1 board, and Snapdragon X Elite devices.

More details and testing of the new Debian Installer via [1]debian-devel-announce .



[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00003.html