Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS) ended on January 7, 2014.
hello support,
can you please explain to me this message.
"Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS) ended on January 7, 2014. No further bug fixes, enhancements, security updates "
my server has this version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago)
from security asessement we found some point need to be fixed like upgrading openssl ,.... etc also we found this message
"Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS) ended on January 7, 2014. No further bug fixes, enhancements, security updates "
i need to fix it. but i don't know how to fix it.
another question if i have this relase "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.2 (Santiago) " and i want to upgrade to 6.5
i want to understand if i updated kernel and booted from the new one it will be upgraded to the latest release 6.5 or 6.6 or i have to bring 6.6 DVD and make yum update all from local repo
what is the best solution to upgrdate to another release .
thanks
Responses
Red Hat
Guru
1517 points
Hi,
You can update to 6.5 Extended Update Support: https://access.redhat.com/articles/rhel-eus. Or if you want 6.6 and future y-stream releases, you just need a valid subscription.
Radek
Red Hat
Guru
7257 points
Every few years, Red Hat take the current release of Fedora. We take out non-business packages and stuff we don't wish to support, run the rest through rigorous testing to make sure it's reliable, and the result of that work becomes a major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHEL5 was based off Fedora 6, RHEL6 was based off Fedora 12~14, RHEL7 was based off Fedora 18~20.
Once a major release happens, we try to make a minor release every 6 months or so. This is the point releases, RHEL 6.1, RHEL 6.2, RHEL 6.3 and so on. We prefer a working release to an on-time release so this won't always be 6 months on the dot. Sometimes it might even be 9 months.
Generally only the current minor release gets fixes, or fixes are deferred to a later minor release. For example, if something is broken in RHEL 6.6 (the current minor release today) we'll likely fix it in RHEL 6.7 or maybe a later minor release. If the fix is important enough, we'll also fix it during RHEL 6.6 but only during 6.6.
Upgrading minor release every 6 months doesn't suit all customers. Some must certify on a particular minor release (eg: RHEL 6.2) and stay there for some time. For these customers we offer a product called Extended Update Support or EUS.
With EUS, we backport patches (on request, or if important enough) to a previous minor release for 2 years after the minor release is available. You then need your system subscribed to the EUS channel (eg: RHEL 6.2 EUS) to download the actual updated RPMs with yum.
EUS used to be an paid add-on, however it's now available with any new Premium RHEL entitlement.
In RHEL5 only selected minor releases were EUS, but in RHEL6 and RHEL7, every minor release is an EUS release.
So in the example you gave, RHEL 6.2 EUS ends Jan 7 2014. This means RHEL 6.2 came out on or around Jan 7 2012 (actually slightly earlier). As later minor releases came out (6.3, 6.4, etc) we backported some things to 6.2 EUS and customers with systems on the RHEL 6.2 EUS channel could download those updated packages.
However, the EUS is intended to be a longer lifecycle not a stay on an old minor release forever so we stop backporting things to a minor release after 2 years.
This is described further, including the EUS end dates of all minor releases, on the RHEL Life Cycle page.
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