Fasten your seatbelts! openvox-agent 9.0.0-beta2 is there! ### Breaking Changes 🛠️ • Promote openfact 6.0.0 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/575 • Remove hiera indirector by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/384 • openfact: Require 6.x by @bastelfreak in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/577 • Remove data-binding settings by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/385 • Allow file content that looks like a checksum. by @Jérémie Pierson in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/170 • Change reports default from "store" to "none" by @Sharpie in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/583 • puppet-runtime: update 2026.07.16.1->2026.08.04.1 / removed java keystores by @bastelfreak in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/593 • Remove zone_core module by @bastelfreak in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/592 • Update vendored modules to latest versions by @bastelfreak in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/589 ### New Features 🎉 • Replace deprecated

--force-yes

apt-get

option by @jay7x in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/560 • Update CFPropertyList requirement from >= 3.0.6, < 4 to ~> 4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/509 ### Bug Fixes 🐛 • fix: Pacman provider uses unrecognized option '--update' by @fmichea in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/451 • Fix filebucket REST terminus to support request.server by @mdechiaro in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/368 • fix:

Deferred

resolution of Puppet-language functions (e.g. mocks in tests) failing due to lack of

:global_scope

by @griggi-ws in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/350 ### Documentation Updates 📚 • Document cross-node read exposure of a central filebucket by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/585 ### Other Changes • Promote puppet-runtime 2026.07.16.1 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/553 • Set

PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS

variable to empty by @Corporate Gadfly in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/559 • Generate module tarball fixtures at test time by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/566 • Improve manpage reproducibility by @jcharaoui in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/570 • Fix a small typo in the markdown docs by @jcharaoui in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/569 • Update URLs in default config files by @jcharaoui in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/572 • Fix "translates custom oids to their long name" test by @anthonyryan1 in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/488 • Replace 'master' terminology with 'server' by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/348 • User resource pw provider: Switches a couple commands to the safer array syntax by @binford2k in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/567 • Rebrand Puppet -> OpenVox and fix links by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/530 • Add man page validation to CI by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/580 • Address review feedback from #530 by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/579 • Remove bashism from pre/post-install scripts by @sideeffect42 in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/573 • Validate that the catalog is compiled for this node by @binford2k in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/568 • Update JRuby 10.1 test cell to 10.1.1.0 by @Sharpie in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/584 • Remove unloadable CC-BY-1.0 RDoc template and generator by @silug in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/587 • Remove setup.ps1 Cygwin setup script by @Sharpie in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/591 ## New Contributors • @fmichea made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/451 • @jcharaoui made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/570 • @anthonyryan1 made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/488 • @mdechiaro made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/368 • @sideeffect42 made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/573 • @Jérémie Pierson made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/170 • @griggi-ws made their first contribution in https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/350 Full Changelog: https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/compare/9.0.0-beta1...9.0.0-beta2 A big thank you to all the new contributors! The packages are available on our apt/yum repo. the windows msi file is at https://downloads.voxpupuli.org/windows/openvox9/. the dmg will be provided very soonish. Please please test the packages and provide feedback!