RHEA-2013:0021 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

A new redhat-release package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9.

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 5.9.

Users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 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
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

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 - 800532 - Need 10-year certs on AMIs
• BZ - 800902 - [LTC 5.9 FEAT] Need flex library 64-bit on PPC64
• BZ - 805549 - Missing 32bit java-1.6.0-sun packages in x86_64 variants
• BZ - 808198 - prevent kernel rpms from getting installed on ec2 RHEL 5x ami's
• BZ - 847779 - SRPM TPS Test Failures due to New unexpected package being built
• BZ - 864121 - arptables_jf.ppc64 does not exist in ppc repository
• BZ - 869809 - Hyper V KVP Daemon does not auto load on RHEL 5.9

CVEs

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References

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