9.0.0-beta2

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Promote openfact 6.0.0 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #575
• Remove hiera indirector by @silug in #384
• openfact: Require 6.x by @bastelfreak in #577
• Remove data-binding settings by @silug in #385
• Allow file content that looks like a checksum. by @jeremie-pierson in #170
• Change reports default from "store" to "none" by @Sharpie in #583
• puppet-runtime: update 2026.07.16.1->2026.08.04.1 / removed java keystores by @bastelfreak in #593
• Remove zone_core module by @bastelfreak in #592
• Update vendored modules to latest versions by @bastelfreak in #589

New Features 🎉

• Replace deprecated --force-yes apt-get option by @jay7x in #560
• Update CFPropertyList requirement from >= 3.0.6, < 4 to ~> 4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #509

Bug Fixes 🐛

• fix: Pacman provider uses unrecognized option '--update' by @fmichea in #451
• Fix filebucket REST terminus to support request.server by @mdechiaro in #368
• fix: Deferred resolution of Puppet-language functions (e.g. mocks in tests) failing due to lack of :global_scope by @griggi-ws in #350

Documentation Updates 📚

• Document cross-node read exposure of a central filebucket by @silug in #585

Dependency Updates ⬆️

• Update rubocop requirement from ~> 1.87.0 to ~> 1.88.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #535

Other Changes

• Promote puppet-runtime 2026.07.16.1 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #553
• Set PUPPET_EXTRA_OPTS variable to empty by @corporate-gadfly in #559
• Generate module tarball fixtures at test time by @silug in #566
• Improve manpage reproducibility by @jcharaoui in #570
• Fix a small typo in the markdown docs by @jcharaoui in #569
• Update URLs in default config files by @jcharaoui in #572
• Fix "translates custom oids to their long name" test by @anthonyryan1 in #488
• Replace 'master' terminology with 'server' by @silug in #348
• User resource pw provider: Switches a couple commands to the safer array syntax by @binford2k in #567
• Rebrand Puppet -> OpenVox and fix links by @silug in #530
• Add man page validation to CI by @silug in #580
• Address review feedback from #530 by @silug in #579
• Remove bashism from pre/post-install scripts by @sideeffect42 in #573
• Validate that the catalog is compiled for this node by @binford2k in #568
• Update JRuby 10.1 test cell to 10.1.1.0 by @Sharpie in #584
• Remove unloadable CC-BY-1.0 RDoc template and generator by @silug in #587
• Remove setup.ps1 Cygwin setup script by @Sharpie in #591

New Contributors

• @fmichea made their first contribution in #451
• @jcharaoui made their first contribution in #570
• @anthonyryan1 made their first contribution in #488
• @mdechiaro made their first contribution in #368
• @sideeffect42 made their first contribution in #573
• @jeremie-pierson made their first contribution in #170
• @griggi-ws made their first contribution in #350

Full Changelog: 9.0.0-beta1...9.0.0-beta2