RHBA-2022:1086 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Upgrading from Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform version 4.8 to 4.9 is currently not available.

Description

Red Hat has discovered one or more issues in OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 that provides sufficient cause for Red Hat to not support upgrades from versions 4.9:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068601

The delayed availability of this upgrade path does not affect the support of clusters as documented in the OpenShift Container Platform version life cycle policy, and Red Hat will provide supported update paths as soon as possible.

You can view the OpenShift Container Platform life cycle policy at https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/openshift

For more information about upgrade paths and recommendations, see https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#upgrade-version-paths

Solution

General Guidance:

All OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 users are advised to upgrade to the next version when it is available in the appropriate release channel. To check for currently recommended updates, use the OpenShift Console or the CLI oc command.

Outside of a cluster, view the currently recommended upgrade paths with the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Update Graph tool https://access.redhat.com/labs/ocpupgradegraph/update_channel

Instructions for upgrading a cluster are available at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.8/updating/updating-cluster-between-minor.html#understanding-upgrade-channels_updating-cluster-between-minor

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for Power 4.8 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for IBM Z and LinuxONE 4.8 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform for ARM 64 4.9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2069085 - OpenShift Container Platform 4.8 notification of delayed upgrade path to 4.9

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)