New OpenVox Agent releases! Edit

We are happy to announce OpenVox-Agent 8.28.0 and 9.0.0-alpha2!

OpenVox Agent 8.28.0 has just been published to our mirror! Mac, Windows & Linux packages are available. We also added Fedora 44 support.

What does the release contain? Mostly CVE fixes that were released yesterday with OpenSSL 3.0.21:

New Features 🎉

• Backport: Add Platform definitions for Fedora 44 to 8.x by @Sharpie in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/459

Bug Fixes 🐛

• [Backport 8.x] Manage group members on EL 10 without libuser by @OpenVoxProjectBot in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/477
• [Backport 8.x] Fix File.open Ruby 3.2 regression in FileSystem::Uniquefile by @OpenVoxProjectBot in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/478

Other Changes

• Promote puppet-runtime 2026.06.09.1 into 8.x by @OpenVoxProjectBot in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/48

Our docs got also updated for 8.28.0.

And OpenVox 9?

We have a new set of alpha packages. For apt/yum, those are now actual repos with release files that you can use, not just plain download links.

• apt
• yum
• Mac/Windows

There are a couple big changes with this release:

• Windows packages have arrived. This brings a build of Ruby 4 from a new toolchain based on MSYS2 + MINGW-w64. OpenVox 8 continues to use the old Cygwin + MINGW toolchain. One benefit of this new build is that we now use the same x64-mingw-ucrt platform as upstream Ruby. This means gems with compiled extensions, e.g. gem install nokogiri, should be able to use pre-compiled builds from rubygems.org without requiring the Windows node to have a compiler and dev tools installed. Massive thanks to Sebastian Rakel for figuring out how to get the MSYS2 build running side-by-side with the existing Cygwin build.
• A 9.0.0.pre.alpha2 version of the openvox gem has been published, for use in running test pipelines against the OpenVox 9 pre-release.

This version also contains CVE fixes from yesterday’s OpenSSL 3.5.7 release.

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Decouple :posix feature from :syslog library check by @silug in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/458
• remove pe_serverversion fact by @corporate-gadfly in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/39
• return to preprocessing deferred functions by default by @binford2k in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/462

New Features 🎉

• Add windows-msys2-x64 build for OpenVox 9 by @Sharpie in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/468

Bug Fixes 🐛

• Manage group members on EL 10 without libuser by @Sharpie in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/476
• Fix File.open Ruby 3.2 regression in FileSystem::Uniquefile by @JonasVerhofste in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/45

Other Changes

• Add JRuby 10.0.5.0 and 10.1.0.0 to test matrix by @silug in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/463
• CI: Use bot account for backports by @bastelfreak in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/472
• Promote puppet-runtime 2026.06.09.1 into main by @OpenVoxProjectBot in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/479

New Contributors

• @JonasVerhofste made their first contribution in github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/pull/450

Please download and test the new releases and provide feedback in the openvox Slack/IRC channel. We will provide new OpenBolt and OpenVox-Server/DB packages in the next couple of days as well.