Debian Wheezy 7.0 Release Candidate 1 released

Today was released the first RC for Debian 7.0 aka Wheezy.

Improvements in this release of the installer

• brltty:
  • Fix support for the theme=dark accessibility option (#696972).
  • Enable orca in gnome3 sessions too.

  Please note: the gdm3 prompt isn’t accessible (#694937).

• cdebconf:
  • Fix display of info messages (e.g. Rescue mode in the banner).
  • Improve speech synthesis support.
• debconf: Fix misleading man-db title for GRUB prompt (#679327).
• debian-cd:
  • Improve GRUB menus used when booting in UEFI mode so they match up better with the equivalent syslinux menus.
  • Change the default UEFI display resolution to 800×600 for maximum compatibility.
  • Fix README.html generation (#699198).
• debian-installer-utils: Fix procfs mounting on GNU/kFreeBSD (#696901).
• grub2:
  • Improve support for EFI installs: make sure /boot/grub exists, and copy unicode.pf2 there (#696962, #661789).
  • Fix infinite recursion in gettext when translation fails (#611537 and many others).
• lowmem: Adjust lowmem limit for GNU/kFreeBSD needed for ZFS volumes (#696786).
• mountmedia:
  • Revert kernel bug workaround (#694082).
  • Firmware loading issues should disappear accordingly.
• netcfg: Write network-manager configuration (included wireless settings when applicable) if it’s found in the installed system; configure ifupdown for wired networking otherwise (#682608).
• oldsys-preseed:
  • Ignore a missing gateway with DHCP (#687212).
  • Use netcfg/disable_autoconfig instead of netcfg/disable_dhcp (#689531).
• preseed: Deal with URLs that consist of an unqualified machine name and a port (#695908).
• qcontrol: Disable firmware watchdog on TS-219p II and TS-419p II (#693263).
• rootskel: Use the same keymap in the virtual consoles as the one selected in the graphical installer (#606395).
• xorg-server: Avoid cursor jumps in VirtualBox (#694598).

Hardware support changes

• linux: Add many drivers to the installer: 8021q, adm8211, at76c50x-usb, b43legacy, bnx2fc, cxgb4, cxgb4vf, fnic, igbvf, int51x1, isci, iwl4965, ixgbevf, libertas_tf_usb, micrel, mlx4_en, mwifiex_pcie, mwl8k, orinoco_usb, pata_piccolo, pch_gbe, pmcraid, prism2_usb, qlge, r8187se, r8192e_pci, r8712u, rtl8192ce, rtl8192cu, rtl8192de, rtl8192se, smsc75xx, smsc9420, smsc95xx, tehuti, ums-eneub6250, ums-realtek, vt6656_stage, vxge (#686605, #689159, #690886, #694348, #695437).
• linux: Add Ralink wifi device IDs: 5362, 5392, 539b (#694312).
• linux: Add support for Lenovo 10/100 Ethernet USB dongle (#696248).

You can find more info on http://www.debian.org website.