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--- news:start [2023-06-11 16:19] – Debian 12 Bookworm jens
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 Yesterday, June 10 2023, Debian 12 "Bookworm" has been released. Thank you so much Debian team!
-The most important changes are that from now on, the non-free firmware has been moved into its own repository (the [[misc:sources.list]] will be updated to reflect that later) and it now part of the official installer release. Finally Debian installations on bare-metal become feasible again :-)
+The most important changes are that from now on, the non-free firmware has been moved into its own repository (the [[misc:sources.list]] will be updated to reflect that later) and is now part of the official installer release. Finally Debian installations on bare-metal become feasible again with the official images :-)
 Also, if you are running a dual-boot system, you will have to tell Grub to actually probe for other OS on your system, by default that is now disabled. Just enable the row ''GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false'' in the ''/etc/default/grub'' file and run an ''update-grub''.
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 You can find the full [[https://www.debian.org/News/2019/20190706|release announcement]] on the Debian website.
-==== 2018-09-02: Wifi firmware ====
-By now there is a new [[http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-atheros_20180518-1_all.deb|firmware package]] available from Debian, no more manual intervention is needed.
-==== 2018-02-20: Wifi disconnects solved ====
-If you depend on Wifi for your connectivity and the Wifi disconnects all the time it can get really irritating.
-After 3 days of intense searching I finally came across [[https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=229808|this post]] in the Arch Linux forums which describes exactly what to do so the disconnects finally stop. Ironically again Arch, maybe I should try that distribution for a change ;-)
-All in all I am still super happy with the XPS 13, great performance, great screen, great battery life. After solving the disconnects I can easily live with software rendering (for the time being) and I think even the Wifi power settings can be turned on again.
-Just to summarize the steps to get the disconnects solved:
-  * Download the latest Atheros ath10k firmware from https://codeload.github.com/kvalo/ath10k-firmware/zip/master
-  * Make a backup of ''/lib/firmware/ath10k/QCA6174'' and delete the whole directory.
-  * Unpack the downloaded ZIP file and place the QCA6174 directory in ''/lib/firmware/ath10k/''
-  * Rename the latest firmware-X.bin files to remove the _WLAN* part.
-  * Place the latest (highest version) firmware-4.bin and firmware-6.bin files directly in ''/lib/firmware/ath10k/'' (I used softlinks).
-  * Reboot.
-  * Check with ''lshw -c Network'' if the latest firmware is loaded.
-As Buster is still young I assume this will be long solved until it will be released.
-==== 2018-02-17: New challenge, XPS 13 ====
-I got myself a new challenge: a brand new Dell XPS 13 9370 (2018 model) Developer Edition (non-touch). I really love this notebook, thus far I have not found one single point of criticism (I am not a webcam user ;-)).
-It comes pre-installed with Ubuntu and even after just booting it and using it for about 10 minutes I remembered why I don't like Ubuntu. So I quickly prepared a Debian Stretch installer stick with non-free firmware. The notebook is very thin and has no USB A ports anymore, let alone a RJ45 connector for LAN. So to install you depend on Wifi and for that the non-free firmware is really needed.
-However, somehow the Stretch installer didn't like the firmware, not even the updated one. It was looking for a 3.0/firmware-5.bin whereas there are only 3.0/firmware-4.bin and 3.0/firmware-6.bin files available. And because I wanted to start using this great piece of hardware as soon as possible I became lazy and just used the Buster installer which works fine.
-Points of attention so far (the rest is working perfectly):
-  * The Wifi randomly disconnects. I had to disable power management for the Wifi card, a description of that will follow later on this site.
-  * I am running KDE and using the compositor in hardware rendering mode (for e.g. the desktop cube) makes the screen become flickery after a while, the contents don't get redrawn. Switching to software rendering (no more cube) solves this problem and switching from the default OpenGL 2.0 to 3.1 makes it less likely to happen. I hope a future kernel module for the graphics will solve this problem.
-  * The keyboard backlight turns off after just 3 seconds even though the setting is at 10 seconds. I will have to research this further (low prio).
-As said, everything else works fine and I am really happy. Ironically, the [[https://www.archlinux.org/|Arch Linux]] Wiki pages for the [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9360)|9360]] and [[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dell_XPS_13_(9370)|9370]] were more helpful than the [[https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Dell/Dell%20XPS%2013|Debian Wiki pages]] ;-)
-As soon as I solved my problems I might make an account and edit the Debian Wiki page for the 9370.
-Updates on this notebook and Debian will surely follow!
 ===== Archived news =====
-For news from the previous years please have a look at the News [[archive]].
+Older news can be found in the news [[archive]].