RHSA-2014:0261 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the one-month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
MRG Version 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This notification applies
only to those customers with subscriptions for Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Version 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise MRG Life Cycle policy, the Red
Hat Enterprise MRG product, which includes MRG-Messaging, MRG-Realtime, and
MRG-Grid, Version 1 offering for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be retired
as of March 31, 2014, and support will no longer be provided.

Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages, including
critical impact security patches or urgent priority bug fixes, for
MRG-Messaging, MRG-Realtime, and MRG-Grid Version 1 on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 after that date. In addition, technical support through Red Hat's
Global Support Services will no longer be provided for Red Hat Enterprise
MRG Version 1 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 after March 31, 2014.

We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise MRG
Version 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Red Hat Enterprise MRG Version
2 on either Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. As a
benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active
Red Hat Enterprise MRG subscriptions to entitle any system on a currently
supported version of those products.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise MRG life cycle can be found here:
https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/mrg/

Solution

This erratum contains an updated mrg-release package, which provides a copy
of this notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

Affected Products

• MRG Grid from RHUI 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2 for RHEL 5 i386
• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• MRG Grid 2 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/mrg/