A few historical bits about d-i development ------------------------------------------- No idea where this will lead us, but on a quiet morning in July 2005, I imagined it would be worth keeping track of D-I history, so I just started this document to keep the information I've found. Please throw in any interesting information you might have. We'll think about organizing this stuff as soon as we have enough material. Original announcement of the D-I project - June 20th 2000 First mention found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/06/msg00279.html Interesting quote from it: Joey Hess said '..."debian-installer", or some actual cool name someone comes up with. I hate naming projects. :-)'. It seems that the name was quite good after all...as we kept it up to now. The "first" things ------------------ First "weekly" status report - November 1st 2000: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html First udeb uploads - December 12th 2000: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00336.html First D-I team meeting - December 9th 2000: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00276.html No meeting minutes found up to now..:-) First appearance of the graphical frontend - December 27th 2000: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00547.html First successful (cough) "installation report" - February 14th 2001: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00503.html First mention of devfs (aaaargh) - February 21st 2001 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00747.html First "new" tasksel - May 9th 2001 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00162.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00513.html First tzconfig using debconf - June 10th 2001 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/06/msg00490.html First Debian derived distribution wanting to use D-I - July 28th 2001 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00717.html First message to debian-boot by Frans Pop - March 1st 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg00045.html D-I repository moved from CVS to Subversion - March 21st 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg02586.html First political struggle around D-I - April 5th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg00438.html Second political struggle around D-I - Sep 23th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01324.html First message to debian-boot by Attilio Fiandrotti and begin of the "g-i aka graphical installer" revival story - March 31st 2005 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg01184.html Base-config removed - Dec 21st 2005 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00917.html First daily builds with the graphical installer included - May 17th 2006 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/05/msg00659.html D-I repository switched to use git - January 17th 2011 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2011/01/msg00748.html Status reports -------------- First status report: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html Following progress reports: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00020.html (Dec 1st 2000) http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00338.html (Dec 12th 2000) http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00591.html (Feb 16th 2001) http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00714.html (Jul 26th 2001) http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/07/msg00013.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/08/msg00004.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00007.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/11/msg00011.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/02/msg00013.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/07/msg00431.html Debian-installer releases: -------------------------- First alpha: December 8th 2002 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/12/msg00002.html Sarge installer beta1: November 9th 2003 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/11/msg00003.html - i386 and PowerPC only Sarge installer beta2: January 14th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/01/msg00006.html - install from USB storage - all errata from beta1 fixed Sarge installer beta3: March 16th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/03/msg00013.html - new partitioner with menus (partman) - support wireless - 2.4.25 kernel, eearly SATA support - more arches: ia64, sparc, m68k, mips, alpha - boot logo - installation manual - Languages: 35 Sarge installer beta4: April 30th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/04/msg00025.html - New architectures: arm, hppa, mipsel - detection of other OS - experimental support for kernel 2.6 - new boot logo - Languages: 38 Sarge installer Release Candidate 1: August 7th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg00004.html - All 11 arches supported - install 2.6 on i386 is OK - Languages: 40 Sarge installer Release Candidate 2: November 22th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/11/msg00010.html - Support LVM on software RAID - Fix RC1 errata - Languages: 40 Sarge installer Release Candidate 3: March 23th 2004 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg00764.html - Ready for shipping! Sarge release: June 6th 2005 http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606 - Languages: 40 Etch installer beta1: November 12th 2005 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00008.html - Install 2.6 by default - Rescue mode - Alpha release of the graphical installer - Improved locale/timezone/clock settings - Automatic laptop detection - Languages: 49 Etch installer beta2: March 15th 2006 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00013.html - Die, base-config, die! One stage installation - Switch to udev - Installed system is UTF-8 by default - Languages: 51 Etch installer beta3: August 11th 2006 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00009.html - Integration of graphical installer for i386 and powerpc - Encrypted partitions support - Languages: 60 Etch installer Release Candidate 1: November 13th, 2006 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00003.html - Automated partitionins supports LVM+crypto - Support for preseeded software RAID on multiple disk setups - Languages: 61 Etch installer Release Candidate 2: March 19th, 2007 http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2007/20070319 - Support resize of NTFS partitions - Improved support for visually impaired users (high contrast) - Languages: 65 Etch release: April 8th, 2007 http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 - Languages: 57 (some were disabled) Lenny installer beta1: March 17th, 2008 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00012.html - support fod CD/DVD is back - clock sync with NTP - volatile support - win32-loader integrated - SATA RAID support - Languages: 58 Lenny installer Release Candidate 1: November 12th, 2008 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00002.html - support for Live CD - loading firmware from removable media - integration of hardware speech synthesis - Languages: 62 Lenny installer Release Candidate 2: January 31st, 2009 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00009.html - improved brltty (Braille devices) - improved fallback to English when translations are incomplete - Languages: 63 Lenny release: February 14th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214 - Languages: 63 Squeeze installer Alpha 1: February 10th, 2010 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/02/msg00011.html - help during installation process - installation of recommended packages - improvementsin language/country/locale selection - improved mirror selection - option to select "UTC" timezone - ext4 support in partman - Languages: 66 (Asturian, Estonian, Kazakh) Squeeze installer Beta 1: October 30th, 2010 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/10/msg00013.html - support for isohybrid images to improve USB stick installs - support for firmware .deb files in firmware/ on installation media - Support for Guruplug and OpenRD-Ultimate - Languages: 67 (Kannada, Persian, Telugu. Dropped Wolof, Welsh) Squeeze installer Beta 2: December 8th, 2010 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2010/12/msg00001.html - improved OS detection - ZFS support in kfreebsd-* (later disabled on i386) - improved USB CD-ROM detection - Languages: 67 Squeeze installer Release Candidate 1: January 12th, 2011 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00002.html - uses Squeeze artwork theme - support new suite name for volatile - many hardware support fixes - many fixes for release critical bugs - Languages: 70 (Lao, Sinhala). 100% complete for 57. Squeeze installer Release Candidate 2: January 22th, 2011 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/01/msg00005.html - fix keyboard configuration for several languages - final set of release critical fixes - Languages: 70