RHEA-2011:0020 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.6.

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 5.6.

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

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 - 547870 - python as multilib for ppc64?
• BZ - 584702 - RHEL 5.5 Client is missing postgresql84-devel in conflicts group
• BZ - 614385 - add zd1211-firmware to supplementary comps
• BZ - 623124 - [RFE] BIND 9.7 request
• BZ - 634907 - php53-devel must not be multilib
• BZ - 637718 - rebuild redhat-release for rhel 5.6 beta
• BZ - 637719 - rebuild redhat-release for rhel 5.6 GA
• BZ - 637818 - add krb5-server-ldap to Workstation
• BZ - 638636 - x86_64 Client DVD iso file doesn't fit Single layer media
• BZ - 643881 - add virtio-win to comps
• BZ - 646556 - Devel packages in Client
• BZ - 648929 - Missing dependency in Supplementary
• BZ - 652790 - provide yum repository for accessing rhel source rpms
• BZ - 660678 - SSSD in RHEL 5.6 compose is missing 32-bit sssd-client package on multilib architectures
• BZ - 661332 - Add sblim*-virt subpackages to VT

CVEs

(none)

References

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