Following the announcement in the FreeBSD status report for the 4th quarter of 2025:
Because the legacy ports of Puppet 8 will not be updated anymore, they will be deprecated soon
As of 2026-03-15, the ports are marked DEPRECATED. Packages are still built and available, so this does not change anything yet for users. But the ports will eventually be removed after 2026-07-01, and packages will not be available anymore.
If you are still using these legacy packages on your FreeBSD systems, you are advised to switch to the OpenVox packages which offer a drop-in replacement: for each deprecated package, an alternative actively maintained package by OpenVox is available. The new packages install files in the same location and services with the same name, allowing a straightforward install: pkg(8) will report that the new package conflicts with the legacy one, and will propose to remove it.