Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.3.

Description

The redhat-release package contains licensing information regarding, and
identifies the installed version of, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This new package reflects changes made for the release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.3.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 should upgrade to this updated package.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 143068 - .discinfo file should have something that tells it is a Update CD
• BZ - 432811 - We should ship the EPEL gpg key in RHEL
• BZ - 443051 - include perl-Archive-Zip in Server, for amavisd-new
• BZ - 459537 - ecryptfs-utils should not be in the default package install
• BZ - 460296 - openldap has new subpackage: openldap-servers-overlays
• BZ - 460438 - comps needs update because of rpm-apidocs
• BZ - 460915 - Remove fedora and fedora-test keys from redhat-release
• BZ - 462336 - Please add nedit to comps for RHEL5
• BZ - 467780 - add compat-dapl-utils to comps
• BZ - 468433 - Installing Cluster Storage group makes xen the default kernel

CVEs

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References

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