RHEA-2012:0298 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An updated redhat-release-notes package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.8 as part of ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.

Description

Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor releases are an aggregation of individual
enhancement, security and bug fix errata. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8
Release Notes documents the major changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
operating system and its accompanying applications for this minor release.
Detailed notes on all changes in this minor release are available in the
Technical Notes.

This package contains the Release Notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8.

The online Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 Release Notes, which are located online
at
https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.8_Release_Notes/index.html, are to be considered the definitive, up-to-date version. Customers with
questions about the release are advised to consult the online Release and
Technical Notes for their version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 are advised to upgrade to this updated
redhat-release-notes package, which adds the updated Release Notes.

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
https://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

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)