New blog post abpout releases.

This post covers the timing from release 8.26.0 to bug report to release
8.26.1

Signed-off-by: Martin Alfke <[email protected]>

Author: tuxmea

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+title: OpenVox Releases at speed of light (almost)
+date: 2026-04-14
+github_username: tuxmea
+---
+
+The community has put lots of effort into automating the OpenVox release process.
+
+To give you an example how fast releases are possible, I want to point you to the timing between the last two releases:
+
+Release 8.26.0 was tagged and available on the [GitHub release page](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/releases/tag/8.26.0) on April 14 2026 at 6:40 PM CEST.
+
+The packages were available on the repo server on April 14 2026 at 7:02 PM CEST.
+
+A bug was reported on April 15 at 2:13 PM CEST via [Vox Pupuli Slack](https://voxpupuli.slack.com/archives/C088QSEH1RA/p1776255199310549).
+This was the message:
+
+```text
+Hey guys, had an issue with eyaml this morning, everything is fine on puppetservers with the
+older agent 8.25.0-1+ubuntu24.04
+but on puppetservers with the newer agent 8.26.0-1+ubuntu24.04 (all on puppetserver 8.12.1-1+ubuntu24.04 )
+I'm seeing Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call,
+Function Load Error for function 'eyaml_lookup_key': Lookup using eyaml lookup_key function is only
+supported when the hiera_eyaml library is present
+
+from a client agent.
+
+hiera-eyaml is present on the server:
+```
+
+The community reacted and fixed the bug.
+
+The new release [8.26.1](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/releases/tag/8.26.1) was available on April 15 2026 at 1:11 AM CEST.
+
+The packages of this new release were available on the repository server on April 15 2026 at 1:22 AM CEST.
+
+That's less than 8 hours from release to bug identification to fixed release.
+
+That is less time compared to the sun being visible in Europe on that day (6:07 AM CEST to 8:07 PM CEST).
+
+The Vox Pupuli community has proven, that automation is the key to success.
+