RHBA-2021:0642 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

This is the three month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6-alt. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6-alt.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Update Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6-alt will be retired as of May 31, 2021, and active support will no longer be provided. Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages, including Critical Impact security patches or Urgent Priority bug fixes, for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.6-alt after May 31, 2021. In addition, on-going technical support through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases" in the Knowledge Base article located here https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.

We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6-alt to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

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 for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1919370 - End of RHEL 7.6-alt Three Month Retirement Notice - 2/25/21

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/