RHEA-2011:0251 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9.

Description

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

This new package reflects changes made for the release of Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.9.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 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 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 633715 - /etc/issue update for RHEL 4.9 Beta
• BZ - 633742 - /etc/issue update for RHEL 4.9 RC
• BZ - 639178 - RHEL 4.8 ES README files contain AS (not ES)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)