Synopsis

Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Retirement Notice

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

This is the final 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 was retired on March 31, 2017, at the end of Production Phase 3 and active support is no longer provided. As the product will now be in the Extended Life Phase, customers will continue to have access to all previously released content, and limited technical support will be available through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS coverage will conclude on November 30, 2020.

UPDATE: Note that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is available for the x86 (32- and 64-bit) and z Systems architectures only. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is not available for the Itanium architecture. In addition, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is only available for Server, and does not apply to layered products or Add-Ons.

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, of course, use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Instructions for migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223.
Red Hat also has a Pre-upgrade Assistant tool to aid with the migration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 erratum contains an updated redhat-release package that provides a copy of this retirement 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 - 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 - 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/articles/64664
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: effec7f4f16ab5bff2670ccfc692508f079ef73840ab780847f5b180d2304ccd
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b392cd3ce5d3894021293f1a0b59846a26df14b4436a7ddacf02402e3476a220
ia64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 440ceb4c70ed543d98354bd710e0b83efa0c5f71df49646ffa54621ad90cf121
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 412adaa7bed32f5b54f742fdabc39cc52d41921b04f16d15babe2b5a4b7a3c80

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: effec7f4f16ab5bff2670ccfc692508f079ef73840ab780847f5b180d2304ccd
x86_64
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: b392cd3ce5d3894021293f1a0b59846a26df14b4436a7ddacf02402e3476a220
i386
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: 412adaa7bed32f5b54f742fdabc39cc52d41921b04f16d15babe2b5a4b7a3c80

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1aaed979dbf7b21f8c8251742a303a04b60ebc492172cb9a689303b0ec6ba14e
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 20fe12c92ac15d76e6ff7ad18d0faf7b2fbaa42fada231d165387082b0917b7e
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f01d72043c82343b4318df0025b242e80fb7c23e8afb9a69544e25920b3483cc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1aaed979dbf7b21f8c8251742a303a04b60ebc492172cb9a689303b0ec6ba14e
x86_64
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 20fe12c92ac15d76e6ff7ad18d0faf7b2fbaa42fada231d165387082b0917b7e
i386
redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.9.i386.rpm	SHA-256: f01d72043c82343b4318df0025b242e80fb7c23e8afb9a69544e25920b3483cc

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: effec7f4f16ab5bff2670ccfc692508f079ef73840ab780847f5b180d2304ccd
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 7cb51ae3f58cdc97ce4e0d5d330e042bd446a6b05c4f36df9a143ea896bd337c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: effec7f4f16ab5bff2670ccfc692508f079ef73840ab780847f5b180d2304ccd
ppc
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: ff09cbb6bf0498b8f76d3c79c8c104cb4393c88446fe5c181812b77f7d6bd28f

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

SRPM
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.src.rpm	SHA-256: effec7f4f16ab5bff2670ccfc692508f079ef73840ab780847f5b180d2304ccd
s390x
redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.9.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 7cb51ae3f58cdc97ce4e0d5d330e042bd446a6b05c4f36df9a143ea896bd337c