9.0.0-beta1

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Raise minimum Ruby version to 3.2.0 by @silug in #442
• Remove configprint setting by @silug in #374
• Remove legacy PAL script eval APIs by @silug in #393
• Remove regsubst encoding argument by @silug in #391
• Remove pluginsync setting by @silug in #389
• More secure default server setting by @corporate-gadfly in #536

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Tolerate concurrent creation of directories by @Sharpie in #506
• Fix handling of Puppet::Pops serialization issues by @seanmil in #502
• Fix regex node lookup regression from PUP-11515 by @corporate-gadfly in #481
• Copy input mtime to files generated by puppet generate types by @silug in #522
• Update ca_last_update/crl_last_update on HTTP 304 by @bastelfreak in #524

Dependency Updates ⬆️

• Update rspec-its requirement from ~> 1.1 to ~> 2.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #55
• Update json-schema requirement from >= 2, < 6 to >= 2, < 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #192
• Promote puppet-resource_api 2.0.1 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #517
• Promote puppet-runtime 2026.07.06.1 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #516
• Promote module-puppetlabs-scheduled_task v4.0.3 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #528
• Promote openfact 5.7.0 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #541

Other Changes

• Add arm64 support to acceptance by @jpartlow in #495
• Remove source_permissions deprecation warning by @silug in #418
• add runtime deprecation warnings to Puppet::Util ENV wrappers by @silug in #417
• CI: Speed up JRuby and Windows spec runs by @silug in #525
• Remove filetimeout deprecation warning by @silug in #419

Full Changelog: 9.0.0-alpha2...9.0.0-beta1