9.0.0-rc2

What's Changed

New Features 🎉

• Promote openfact 6.1.0 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #668
• openfact: update 6.1.0 -> 6.2.0 by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #677

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Pin json below 3 to unblock CI by @miharp in #655
• print "Loading facts" just once by @bastelfreak in #656
• Only require the server setting when no explicit server is given by @silug in #659
• Kill the forked agent run if it outlives runtimeout by @silug in #642
• Do not swallow RunTimeoutError while collecting facts by @silug in #643
• Wait for certificates in the forked child, not in the daemon by @silug in #683

Dependency Updates ⬆️

• build(deps-dev): update rubocop requirement from ~> 1.90.0 to ~> 1.91.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #670

Other Changes

• Install the service defaults file on Debian by @jcharaoui in #645
• Fix systemd unreferenced variable warning on Debian by @jcharaoui in #644
• Increase delay affordance in waitforlock test by @jcharaoui in #641
• Accept ca_server and report_server without server when running as root by @silug in #661
• puppet-runtime: Update 2026.09.02.1 -> 2026.09.24.1 by @OpenVoxProjectBot in #684
• Document --environment in puppet agent help by @miharp in #653

New Contributors

• @miharp made their first contribution in #655

Full Changelog: 9.0.0-rc1...9.0.0-rc2