This page documents the history of the OpenFact 6 series. OpenFact 6 is bundled with openvox-agent 9.x; for the series bundled with the 8.x agent, see the OpenFact 5 release notes.

OpenFact 6.0.0

Released on July 31, 2026

Please check the GitHub OpenFact release page for details on new features or bug fixes.

Breaking changes in this release:

• Ruby 3.0 or later is required. Support for Ruby 2.5, 2.6, and 2.7 is dropped.
• The deprecated ldapname fact option and accessor are removed.
• Facter::Core::Execution.execute warns when called with the time_limit or limit option keys; use timeout instead.
• Facter::Core::Execution.exec, Facter::Util::Resolution.exec, and Facter::Util::Resolution.which emit runtime deprecation warnings ahead of removal in a future major release.
• The Resolvable#limit compatibility bridge for timeout is deprecated.
• When resolving a bare command name, OpenFact now searches /opt/puppetlabs/bin after $PATH, /sbin, and /usr/sbin, so facts that call the OpenVox tools work when the agent runs as a service without the profile.d PATH additions.

Other changes include Ruby 4 support and a fix for a missing .El macro in the facter man page.