Synopsis

Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 One-Year Retirement Notice

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

This is the One-Year notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to
the channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

[Updated 19 April 2016]
This advisory has been updated with a corrected list of architectures
supported with the RHEL 5 Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy,
support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be retired on March 31, 2017,
at the end of Production Phase 3. Until that date, customers will continue
to receive Critical impact security patches and selected urgent priority
bug fixes for RHEL 5.11 (the final RHEL 5 release). On that date, active
support included with your RHEL Premium or Standard subscription will
conclude. This means that customers will continue to have access to all
previously released (RHEL 4, RHEL 5, etc.) content. In addition, limited
technical support will be available through Red Hat's Global Support
Services as described in the Knowledge Base article available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 (search for "non-current minor
release").

However, we recognize that some customers will wish to remain on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 even after the March 31, 2017 retirement date. To meet
this customer requirement, Red Hat will offer customers the option to
purchase the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On as an annually
renewable subscription. This ELS Add-On provides customers with up to an
additional three and a half (3.5) years of Critical impact security fixes
and selected urgent priority bug fixes for RHEL 5.11. RHEL 5 ELS coverage
will conclude on November 30, 2020.

Note that the RHEL 5 ELS Add-On is available for the x86 (32- and 64-bit)
architecture only. The RHEL 5 ELS Add-On is not available for the Itanium
architecture.

To take advantage of a more comprehensive product support, we encourage
customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to a more recent
version. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription, customers may use their
active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red
Hat Enterprise Linux release.

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

Solution

This advisory contains an updated redhat-release package, that provides a
copy of this end of life notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

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 Server from RHUI 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5 s390x

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e927c30cce4b13de2bfbf087530c98f0aa4b738060328cb8918b33c4c365eeeb
ia64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 1c1e19774c264a8805179a63c92685f0b850cb74c3f8937c279714c47f823c01
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 54a0d573f067f6b7f378f67b5b20ad75e891845dc877572f5e4359a04bcc09f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e927c30cce4b13de2bfbf087530c98f0aa4b738060328cb8918b33c4c365eeeb
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 54a0d573f067f6b7f378f67b5b20ad75e891845dc877572f5e4359a04bcc09f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6c20b577a22857806312e73c0e0020396715426c59c6d602090f609d94db3a45
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1d4045d47add3edc764435f38ecf213bf083f8e7557b8cb220347358f63e7144
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b216afdc91ad734b033b02d7aaa0725c58b0f6aa00cdcb9f1bb7f0784cc7a106

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: 6c20b577a22857806312e73c0e0020396715426c59c6d602090f609d94db3a45
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 1d4045d47add3edc764435f38ecf213bf083f8e7557b8cb220347358f63e7144
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.4.i386.rpm	SHA-256: b216afdc91ad734b033b02d7aaa0725c58b0f6aa00cdcb9f1bb7f0784cc7a106

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 2d4c46ed5734350b7cf99b607f2c9c0b18757c59eda680f57206c35b3b4d23f1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
ppc
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: b2268c2a6bdb959f2edb45ed7dd3937f983e5b50a1ce7f3dae26c8676c782088

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: e927c30cce4b13de2bfbf087530c98f0aa4b738060328cb8918b33c4c365eeeb
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 54a0d573f067f6b7f378f67b5b20ad75e891845dc877572f5e4359a04bcc09f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.src.rpm	SHA-256: de2c6ed20a816becd0e5c6b92880730eaf0eb7127521175fb819b72edbd7481e
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.4.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 2d4c46ed5734350b7cf99b607f2c9c0b18757c59eda680f57206c35b3b4d23f1