Issued:
2017-02-28
Updated:
2017-02-28

RHSA-2017:0340 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

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

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

This is the One-Month 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.

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 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 (under "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.

To enjoy even 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.

Instructions for migrating from RHEL 5 to RHEL7 are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223. Red Hat also offers a Pre-upgrade
Assistant tool to aid with the migration of RHEL 5 systems to RHEL 7. For more
information about this tool, please see
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623.

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

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.src.rpm SHA-256: b3b12795dffd624b4a8733a7d448b2b50c2360ee53a910cbda012f9df5a49bf7
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 77cd4b5b8b971bc0159ecc9ef367fa1ca08fcb822b06dc4f2153d0ce47749b74
ia64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.ia64.rpm SHA-256: 6dff0e54ac34539d86b76cbc26dc4998587db4c02122e9269b4e7449d4009e03
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.i386.rpm SHA-256: 3fc730c0b18ca3a30937e8d648313ec486a42c19b599a43e85850b852870573f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.src.rpm SHA-256: 9f1fe2fc9d53fea3a7a7bfe7e64dc39c85db2abce99177c71d48f6d69b352131
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5a79f783070caaa9995695f93cdf27879155e5bd3b91aaedb8ac17d12ab4f68c
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.i386.rpm SHA-256: 409b4ce25dea750964b574efc1c98f29c258f2c8ac17b509afc9ca99de480f01

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.src.rpm SHA-256: 9f1fe2fc9d53fea3a7a7bfe7e64dc39c85db2abce99177c71d48f6d69b352131
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 5a79f783070caaa9995695f93cdf27879155e5bd3b91aaedb8ac17d12ab4f68c
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.8.i386.rpm SHA-256: 409b4ce25dea750964b574efc1c98f29c258f2c8ac17b509afc9ca99de480f01

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.src.rpm SHA-256: b3b12795dffd624b4a8733a7d448b2b50c2360ee53a910cbda012f9df5a49bf7
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.s390x.rpm SHA-256: bc2a880814032699324086630198587a7dd4a7895cf02d8b97ffa681fafa9c66

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.src.rpm SHA-256: b3b12795dffd624b4a8733a7d448b2b50c2360ee53a910cbda012f9df5a49bf7
ppc
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.8.ppc.rpm SHA-256: dccf4bf2aa1cc8b38efa8be5bbc087e0ac8facc30a672e41b9c5d7766d7266c6

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