RHEA-2011:0977 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7.

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 5.7. (BZ#366331, BZ#666527, BZ#671583, BZ#677386, BZ#695254,
BZ#701304, BZ#701692, BZ#702606, BZ#706518, BZ#707649, BZ#708283, BZ#712793)

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 are advised to install this new 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://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 366331 - The disk RHEL5.1-Server-20071017.0-ia64-compat-layer-i386.iso contains no autorun file
• BZ - 702606 - redhat-release-5Server package in Client

CVEs

(none)

References

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