RHEA-2009:1400 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.4.

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 5.4.

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/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 241379 - Add System z compatibility section
• BZ - 363101 - RHEL comps.xml files are not arch-specific
• BZ - 463425 - .discinfo version and .treeinfo version do not match
• BZ - 467721 - redhat-release contains empty debuginfo packages
• BZ - 475611 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Update to latest level of Java 1.4.2 SR12 for RHEL 5.4 [201782]
• BZ - 475612 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Java 6 SR2 for RHEL 5.4 [201784]
• BZ - 475613 - [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Java 1.5 SR8 for RHEL 5.4 [201783]
• BZ - 482800 - i386 versions of openssl097a and compat-readline43 for x86_64 channel
• BZ - 483565 - xenpv-win should not be shipped on the {ia64,ppc,s390} Supplementary isos
• BZ - 488933 - add pdksh to comps
• BZ - 500414 - RFE: produce a list of empty debuginfo rpms
• BZ - 502048 - redhat-release needs to be updated for 5.4
• BZ - 502051 - Add virtio-win package to comps
• BZ - 503472 - systemtap subpackages missing on ppc
• BZ - 506481 - fipscheck-lib-1.2.0-1.el5.i386.rpm on rhel5.4 compat is missing
• BZ - 511161 - yum groupinstall KVM shouldn't pull in gnome-applet-vm (and xen)

CVEs

(none)

References

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