diff --git a/images/almalinux/9.7/base/version b/images/almalinux/9.7/base/version
index be1b8db..a7d8c70 100644
--- a/images/almalinux/9.7/base/version
+++ b/images/almalinux/9.7/base/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-20260308
+20260317
diff --git a/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/builds b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/builds
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bdb9670
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/builds
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+docker
diff --git a/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/variables.auto.pkrvars.hcl b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/variables.auto.pkrvars.hcl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a9485f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/variables.auto.pkrvars.hcl
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# almalinux/9.7/puppet-validator
+docker_source = "git.unkin.net/unkin/almalinux9-base:latest"
+packages = [
+  "rubygems",
+  "ruby-devel",
+  "gcc",
+  "make",
+  "redhat-rpm-config",
+  "glibc-headers",
+  "glibc-devel",
+  "libffi",
+  "libffi-devel"
+]
+scripts_pre_packages = [
+  "dnf -y group install \"Development Tools\""
+]
+scripts_final = [
+  "dnf clean all",
+  "rm -rf /var/cache/dnf"
+]
diff --git a/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/version b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a7d8c70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/images/almalinux/9.7/puppet-pr-validator/version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+20260317