OpenVox Server: Release Notes

OpenVox Server 9 is in prerelease. This page tracks the beta and release-candidate builds ahead of the stable 9.0.0 release. Expect breaking changes between prereleases; see known issues for anything discovered so far.

OpenVox Server 9 pairs with OpenVox 9 (the agent): the openvox-server 9.x package depends on openvox-agent 9.x on the same host. For the changes on the agent side, see the OpenVox 9 release notes.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-rc1

Released September 9, 2026.

This is the first release candidate of OpenVox Server 9 and is not yet the stable release. See the project’s GitHub release page for the full list of changes.

Notable breaking changes in this build:

  • Packages are now built with EZbake 4.1.0. The systemd unit starts the JVM directly instead of going through a wrapper script, and the puppetserver start and puppetserver stop subcommands are removed. Use systemctl start puppetserver and systemctl stop puppetserver instead. systemctl reload puppetserver keeps working on every platform: on systemd 253 or newer the unit uses Type=notify-reload, while EL 8, EL 9, Amazon Linux 2023, SLES 15, and Ubuntu 22.04 keep the puppetserver reload subcommand behind it.
  • The package now requires openvox-agent 9.0.0-rc1 or later.

Other notable changes:

  • The default Java arguments add --enable-native-access=ALL-UNNAMED on Java 21 and later, which removes the restricted-method warnings from the service log and from puppetserver gem list.
  • puppetserver gem, puppetserver ruby, and puppetserver irb no longer print JRuby debug logging; they use JRuby’s standard error logger again.
  • The service-readiness notification to Trapperkeeper introduced in 9.0.0-beta1 is reverted.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-beta5

Released August 12, 2026.

This is a prerelease of OpenVox Server 9 and is not yet the stable release. See the project’s GitHub release page for the full list of changes.

Notable changes in this build:

  • Requests that include the system trust store (for example, report processors posting to external HTTPS endpoints) fall back to the PEM CA bundle shipped with the OpenVox 9 agent. The 9.x agent runtime no longer ships the Java keystore the earlier betas relied on, which caused PKIX path building failed errors when connecting to publicly signed endpoints.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-beta4

Released August 6, 2026.

This build republishes the 9.0.0-beta3 changes. The 9.0.0-beta3 packages were never published because of a CI problem, and a 9.0.0 artifact containing the beta3 changes was published to Clojars by mistake. See the project’s GitHub release page.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-beta3

Released August 6, 2026. Packages for this build were not published; use 9.0.0-beta4.

This is a prerelease of OpenVox Server 9 and is not yet the stable release. It includes breaking changes; see the project’s GitHub release page for the full list of changes.

Notable breaking changes in this build:

  • Reading content back out of the filebucket (GET and POST on /puppet/v3/file_bucket_file) now requires a client certificate with the pp_cli_auth: "true" extension in the default auth.conf. Agents keep HEAD and PUT, which is all they need to store backups.
  • The gettext gem is no longer vendored with the JRuby gems.
  • The package now requires openvox-agent 9.0.0-beta2 or later.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-beta2

Released July 27, 2026.

This is a prerelease of OpenVox Server 9 and is not yet the stable release. It includes breaking changes; see the project’s GitHub release page for the full list of changes.

Notable changes in this build:

  • The package now depends on openvox-agent 9.0.0-beta1 or later.
  • JRuby is upgraded to 10.1.1.0, which targets Ruby 4.0 compatibility (the previous 10.0.x targeted Ruby 3.4).
  • gem install works again during FIPS builds.
  • Fixed the resolv regression when querying IPv6 DNS servers.

OpenVox Server 9.0.0-beta1

Released July 15, 2026.

This is the first prerelease of OpenVox Server 9 and is not yet the stable release. It includes breaking changes; see the project’s GitHub release page for the full list of changes.

Notable breaking changes in this build:

  • Java 21 or 25 is required. Java 17 is no longer supported.
  • The embedded web server is upgraded to Jetty 12.
  • JRuby is upgraded to the 10.x series.
  • The pe_serverversion fact is removed.
  • Packages are no longer built for Debian 11, Debian 12, or Amazon Linux 2.

Other notable changes:

  • Fixed the Jolokia 2.x configuration for the v2 metrics API.
  • OpenVox Server now reports service readiness to Trapperkeeper.

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