Merge pull request #663 from voxpupuli/release_at_speed_of_light

New blog post abpout releases.

Author: tuxmea

_posts/2026-04-16-openvox-releases-at-speed-of-light.md

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+title: OpenVox Releases at speed of light (almost)
+date: 2026-04-16
+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 on April 14 2026 at 6:39 PM CEST.
+
+The release was 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:
+```
+
+Bug analysis showed that the base64 dependency declaration is needed for Ruby 3.4/4 because it moved from a default gem to a bundled gem, but 0.3 is too new for the default gem version in Ruby 3.2, so it caused issues in OpenVox 8.
+
+The community reacted and fixed the bug with the following commits:
+
+- [hiera-eyaml - April 15 2026 at 7:15 PM CEST](https://github.com/voxpupuli/hiera-eyaml/commit/cd64af6580b9d2e30d6b90bf78c442f4db711b1e)
+- [puppet-runtime - April 15 2026 at 10:32 PM CEST](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/puppet-runtime/commit/75960a166fe1eb203e2c88c463ce65a9901963ed)
+- [openvox - April 15 2026 at 11:01 PM CEST](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/commit/1a4c6ae5006242df50c6d26a94214c7d1f4361fb)
+- [openvox tag - April 16 2026 at 1:08 AM CEST](https://github.com/OpenVoxProject/openvox/commit/06930e46fcad68fa0a6e29afd4fbf36569dddab8)
+
+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.
+