OpenVoxDB 9 Release Notes

OpenVoxDB 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.

OpenVoxDB 9 is released alongside OpenVox 9 and OpenVox Server 9. For the changes on those components, see the OpenVox 9 release notes and the OpenVox Server 9 release notes.

OpenVoxDB 9.0.0-rc1

Released September 9, 2026.

This is the first release candidate of OpenVoxDB 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 with the Java binary chosen at package build time, so the JAVA_BIN variable in /etc/sysconfig/puppetdb or /etc/default/puppetdb is no longer used. JAVA_ARGS still applies. The unit uses systemd’s notify protocol (Type=notify, or Type=notify-reload where systemd 253 or newer is available), so systemd reports the service as started only after OpenVoxDB is fully up. Packages depend on a Java 25 runtime where the platform provides one and on Java 21 otherwise.
  • The openvoxdb and openvoxdb-termini packages now require openvox-agent 9.0.0-beta1 or later. The beta1 packages had no upper bound and installed alongside an 8.x agent; the release candidate does not.

Other notable changes:

  • Two new puppetdb.conf settings, fact_names_blocklist and fact_names_blocklist_regex, let the termini drop facts, including individual keys inside structured facts, before they are sent to OpenVoxDB. See Configuring a Puppet/OpenVoxDB connection.
  • Fixed a query planner error for nodes queries that filter on report_environment while extracting only certname.
  • Dependency updates across the Trapperkeeper stack, plus Jackson 2.21.6, logback 1.6.3, and Clojure 1.12.6.

OpenVoxDB 9.0.0-beta1

Released July 15, 2026.

This is a prerelease of OpenVoxDB 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. If you upgrade from OpenVoxDB 8.14.0 or earlier and have modified /etc/puppetlabs/puppetdb/bootstrap.cfg, the package manager keeps your copy, and the service fails to start because the old file loads jetty10-service. Replace that line with puppetlabs.trapperkeeper.services.webserver.jetty-service/jetty-service (see the 8.14.1 entry in the OpenVoxDB 8 release notes for the full diff).
  • Packages are no longer built for Debian 11 and Debian 12.

Other notable changes:

  • puppetdb ssl-setup no longer calls puppet agent --configprint, which was removed from the OpenVox 9 agent.
  • Fixed the Jolokia 2.x configuration for the v2 metrics API.
  • The openvoxdb and openvoxdb-termini packages depend on openvox-agent 8.26.2 or later, with no upper bound, so they install alongside either an 8.x or a 9.x agent.
  • This build branched from 8.13.0 and carries the dependency updates that resolved the 8.15.0 advisories (jackson 2.21.5 and the PostgreSQL JDBC driver 42.7.13).

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