Synopsis

RHEL 6 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase Six Month Notice

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

This is the six month retirement notice for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Phase. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to minor releases for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 will be retired as of November 30, 2020 and enter Extended Life Phase which means users will receive the below support:

• Limited technical support for existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 deployments.
  
• Previously released bug fixes (RHBAs), security errata (RHSAs), and product enhancements (RHEAs).
  
• Red Hat Knowledgebase and other content (white papers, reference architectures, and others) found on the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documentation.
  

Red Hat recommends that customers run software that is actively maintained in order to get the most benefit of bug fixes and security enhancements released. Customers have the below options to maintain their Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.

Red Hat strongly suggests that customers migrate to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, version 7 or 8, to receive the latest features prior to November 30, 2020. If customers need additional migration time, customers may move to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS), which delivers certain critical-impact security fixes and selected (at Red Hat discretion) urgent priority bug fixes the below support until June 30, 2024.

• In order to receive the ELS maintenance stream, customers must move their Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 environment to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.10.
  
• Customers should also budget for the cost of ELS as this offering is an Add-on and not part of the base Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription.
  
• The ELS Add-on is only available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Standard and Premium Server Subscriptions.
  
• The ELS Add-On covers the IBM z Systems and the x86 architecture.
  

Please see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle page for additional details on ELS and active Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle dates. Your Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription also entitles you to advice for updating to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux version that is in maintenance. For complex or mission-critical updates you may consider Red Hat Consulting. If interested, take the first step by completing the following form: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/contact/consulting

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Solution

This erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1827171 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 End of Maintenance Support 2 (Product Retirement) Notice

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/
• https://www.redhat.com/en/about/contact/consulting

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.src.rpm	SHA-256: e65fe8d7022821485b8c4b62c19acd910eeb88c455e3fb4d0318f9901a44b861
x86_64
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: fba9f51827cdf7636ff4f65e689293b5913bbd6cfc2342f4837ca2a70908d7d9
i386
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.i686.rpm	SHA-256: c93a982921e7f29949fdd4bb6581ab285bc72fbd62f315e7d4b92e1277faf594

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
redhat-release-workstation-6Workstation-6.10.0.3.el6_10.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: 77162512f77c79d6892984f1ff1123a4ad1c1bdeeee07d0b057914ad61918b00
x86_64
redhat-release-workstation-6Workstation-6.10.0.3.el6_10.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 9c29437e16ca979ac532d3caf1dfad010aefbb56b27e377d4961e13e2e6ab0d7
i386
redhat-release-workstation-6Workstation-6.10.0.3.el6_10.4.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 0c974f703349d5cad300415732debfec5379c0c96e3116e91bd53e7c224a1109

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
redhat-release-client-6Client-6.10.0.4.el6_10.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: 59e7ff74cb70c8c18f005549e51ac946172858ab155d6593a7966133e1d53674
x86_64
redhat-release-client-6Client-6.10.0.4.el6_10.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8d2d19b288508a8da589a7bd52ad7dcbd0a7d2f07e8651a5fa361a15b06892f1
i386
redhat-release-client-6Client-6.10.0.4.el6_10.4.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8e1e5c9d02aa537046faac22f0934624ed4dcfbd73748531b39e51d72fae4bb2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.src.rpm	SHA-256: e65fe8d7022821485b8c4b62c19acd910eeb88c455e3fb4d0318f9901a44b861
s390x
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 989d5237846aedf4e95cc0c4afbd4bae53d489bbecf355154f9d0d6989e1701e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.src.rpm	SHA-256: e65fe8d7022821485b8c4b62c19acd910eeb88c455e3fb4d0318f9901a44b861
ppc64
redhat-release-server-6Server-6.10.0.13.el6_10.5.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 4fe7c2f4dda0763e1e829849c26ba3adf3832a5747a506d0e2325b7d718504bb

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
redhat-release-computenode-6ComputeNode-6.10.0.3.el6_10.5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6693f3bd10bf570b920ffc279b433fbc6617d1fd482db84cdde21309a843f3ca
x86_64
redhat-release-computenode-6ComputeNode-6.10.0.3.el6_10.5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a952ff51aab8fb6aba61dad7da4ad165ffb2f442dba5523f91fae54d4ea350a0